'The Flash' Premiere: Why Barry Allen Is the Ultimate Millennial Superhero

The Tuesday night premiere of The Flash was a breathless, action-packed hour of origin story on the CW, and reactions so far have been overwhelmingly positive for Grant Gustin's first go-round as the Fastest Man in the World

No surprise on "overwhelmingly positive" — this was also an introduction to the most Millennial-y super hero the world has ever seen.

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The 24-year-old Gustin doesn't play a brilliant scientist, a brooding billionaire or a military-experiment-gone-wrong. He's just an ordinary twentysomething dude who, in spite of his pretty extraordinary life, longs to live an extraordinary life Read more...

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