Oliver Queen has fallen in love and left not just Star City, but his identify as The Arrow behind, in order to build a new life with Felicity Smoak. But Star City is not as ready to let go of Oliver Queen as he is of it. While Oliver's friends continue to try to keep the streets safe, they and the police both find themselves overmatched by a mysterious organisation known as the Ghosts. Both Oliver and Felicity are soon drawn back to the city to help defeat this new menace.
Of course, defeating the Ghosts will be no easy task, as they possess weapons unlike anything Oliver's friends have ever seen ... though fortunately Oliver himself has, as we learn through (yet) more flashbacks to the five years when the world believed him dead. In a nice change of the formula, however, Oliver is not the only one whose past will play a significant role in this season's developments.
Arrow remains a solid action-focused superhero show. It profits hugely from good casting in the cast around Oliver. This is not to say that Stephen Amell is bad in the lead role - he's not - but the program is definitely much helped by the presence of strong and charismatic players making up the rest of the main (and for that matter, supporting) cast.
One weakness of this season that I will call out is that the resolution in the final showdown feels a bit reminiscent of that of season 2 (though not to anywhere near the extent that season 2 of The Flash felt like another variation of season 1).
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