
“Heroes fall. Legends rise.”
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
First Aired: 10/10/2012
Languages: English
Created by: Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim
Type: Scripted
Companies: Berlanti Productions, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, DC
Countries: United States of America

Oliver Queen returns to Starling city after being deserted on a hellish island for five years. He decides to become a mask wearing vigilante to fulfil his father's wishes and rid the city of crime. In his journey to do so, he is forced to make tough decisions even as he makes new friends and even more enemies which continue question his lethal ways of controlling crime.

Sworn to fight crime and corruption in his city, Oliver Queen – with the help of tech-savvy Felicity Smoak and his iron-fisted right hand, John Diggle – narrowly averts the rich and powerful's "Undertaking" as the Dark Archer rocked Queen's world in the first season finale of ARROW. But who's going to pick up the pieces? In Season Two, see how Oliver Queen goes from Hood to Hero!

Protecting his city from crime and corruption, vigilante hero Oliver Queen (aka The Green Arrow) uses his formidable combat skills and marksmanship to go up against lethal foes including Deathstroke, Ra's al Ghul and Damien Darhk's HIVE, becoming a beacon of hope for all in need.
MovieGuys
When it first hit the screen I loved this show. It's rather bare knuckle, vigilante grittiness really broke the candy covered shell, that encases so many comic book hero's. Sadly in spite of strong stories and mature characterizations for me this show slowly started a downward spiral, gradually exchanging its originality for mainstream complacency. What really ruined things, in my view, was the migration of the character from a kind of anti hero to a politician. As if this wasn't bad enough, a thread of brittle and downright tiresome, lecturing political correctness crept in too. The result was bland, predictable, opinionated and uninteresting. What a shame. 4/10 from me.
Peter89Spencer
It has been a great 8 year journey with this show. When I first began watching season 1, I had my skepticism, but halfway through it it got more interesting, and over the years it became...something else! From heart stomping action to a great cast - especially when it featured nearly all the main cast from the Spartacus series! And even epic crossovers This show will be missed.
misubisu
MobieGuys summed it up beautifully: https://www.themoviedb.org/review/5ca169649251411a18088d77 Seasons 1 to 4 were a solid 9 out of 10... and each season after that was worse. I didn't even watch season 8. Couldn't bring myself to do it
Rene Ramirez / Wild Dog

After defeating his most formidable foe to date, Oliver Queen left Starling City with the hopes of beginning a new life with longtime flame Felicity Smoak. But will Oliver ever truly be able to leave behind his past as the Arrow, and, if so, what becomes of his team? Will Diggle, Thea, and Laurel continue the crusade? And with Malcolm Merlyn leading the League of Assassins is anyone really safe?

Protecting his city from crime and corruption, vigilante hero Oliver Queen uses his formidable combat skills and marksmanship to go up against lethal foes including Deathstroke, Ra's al Ghul and Damien Darhk and Prometheus, becoming a beacon of hope for all in need.

After last season's emotional showdown between Oliver Queen and Adrian Chase, the focus shifts into uncovering the fate of each and every member of Team Arrow – with their futures left hanging precariously in the balance. Having finally solidified and strengthened his crime-fighting team, the Green Arrow might be forced to rethink his relationships with his "family" in Season 6.

In Season Seven, Oliver Queen will find himself vulnerable in a way unlike ever before when a mysterious new enemy begins to unravel his work as Green Arrow, forcing him to redeem his name or risk losing everything.

Following the arrival of The Monitor, Oliver Queen left his home, his family, & his team behind to take on his most challenging battle yet, knowing the cost may be his life. But this time it's not just his city he's seeking to protect – it's the entire multiverse. Oliver's quest will send him on a journey where he is forced to confront the ultimate question: what is the true cost of being a hero?

41 episodes
GenerationofSwine
IF you only watch the first few seasons it's pretty good. It actually starts off decent enough, and had they kept on that track I'd give it 10 stars. But, unfortunately, it spiraled into CW trash pretty fast and what was once a decent and gritty superhero show ala Grell, it quickly turned into Smallville meets The Dating Game. As the show progresses, it becomes more and more muted, more and more toned down, and the gritty darkness that made it good fun turned into shallow CWness. Watch the first few seasons, and then tune out.
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