10. The Flash And Its Many Multiverses

In days gone by it would take most shows at least three seasons before they would shake up the dynamic; The Flash did it after one. Not content to rest on its laurels, the idea of multiverses was laid in the season finale, allowing audiences to experience new worlds and alternate versions of major characters. While arguably there is still more room for development on this front, you can’t fault the grandeur of this storytelling just nine episodes into its second year.

The Flash season one was a great debut season – one of the strongest for a superhero genre – and it would have been forgiven for maintaining the same dynamic for year two; after all, why fix what isn’t broken? But it did mix it up, upping the ante with characters like Zoom, Jay Garrick and alternate Harrison Wells and showing confidence in adapting major comic stories to the small screen.

Add in Arrow‘s embracing of magic in season four and you have two shows that are really upping their game this year.