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Los Angeles Times wrote:
'The Flash' and 'Supergirl' musical crossover kills with cuteness

March 22, 2017

Watching the jaunty episode titled “Duet” was like inhaling pure joy — a saccharine-saturated performance so ridiculously self-aware that both leads Barry “The Flash” Allen (Grant Gustin) and Kara “Supergirl” Danvers (Melissa Benoist) intermittently dropped character to look around the set, as if they too couldn’t believe the charm of what they were creating.

Former “Glee” star Darren Criss was cast as antagonist the Music Meister. He popped into the last few minutes of a previous “Supergirl” episode and “whammied” (yes, whammied) Supergirl into the musical fantasy land.

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Naturally, Supergirl’s National City “Scooby” gang were concerned about said “whammying,” so they crossed over to the alternate dimension that houses Flash and his Central City compatriots. Fortunately, the Flash was also whammied by the Meister and — presto! — the musical crossover was set.

Although the rationale behind the villain’s evil scheme wasn’t entirely coherent — he wanted to drain their powers while making them understand love, or something? — it didn’t need to be. Criss was put in this episode for two reasons: to look good in red suspenders and to sing. And he did both quite well.

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If you’re going to do a musical episode on television and compete with legendary greats like “Once More With Feeling” from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” or “The Nightman Cometh” installment of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” the key is to commit.

“The Flash” accomplished this by doubling down with a happy ending that wound up with the title character proposing to his love interest, Iris West (Candice Patton), through song. The number, penned by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (who just won an Oscar for “City of Stars” from “La La Land”), hits hard when the world’s fastest superhero starts crooning “Runnin’ Home to You.”

“Duet” was sweet, sweet cheese. It was a kitten delivering a Hallmark card with the words “you’re purr-fect” spelled out in glitter. But it knew it and steered into the delightful.

In a TV world awash in procedural dramas and murder mysteries, sometimes it feels pretty great to take a song break.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote:
Inside the 'Flash' and 'Supergirl' Musical Crossover's Big Twist


March 21, 2017

In the end, The CW's Supergirl musical crossover with The Flash was all about love, and the villain wasn't even a villain at all.

The crossover's mysterious "villain," the Music Meister (Darren Criss), arrived in National City during Monday's Supergirl to put Kara (Melissa Benoist) into a coma and then made his way to Central City for Tuesday's musical crossover with The Flash to do the same to Barry (Grant Gustin) . . . When all was said and done, it turned out that the coma was actually a movie musical inside Barry and Kara's minds that was intended to help both couples get back together

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Everyone made up and woke up in the real world as good as new and were shocked to see the Music Meister applauding their victory because he "believes in the good guys."

"The lesson was love," Criss' charismatic character told the whole crew inside of STAR Labs. "Love is about letting yourself be saved. It's not just about saving other people, even if you are superheroes."

The reveal marks a big change from all the super-crossovers in the past, which have tended to feature some sort of formidable villain putting everyone's lives (or the fate of the world) at stake.

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To hear Kreisberg tell it, the decision to make the Music Meister a hero instead of a villain just fit into the story. "At the end, that the cause of it would be somebody evil didn't feel right the more we worked on the plot of the episode," he says. "The idea that this person put them through their paces so they could get their love back on track ultimately seemed like a benevolent thing. We just thought that was so interesting. I mean, literally every show, every villain is evil. That somebody was doing something just to do some good struck us as very much the kind of thing a musical would do."

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The actress [Melissa Benoist] noted that she loved the humor and ad-libs featured in the episode, which included a mini-Glee reunion with co-stars Gustin and guest player Criss. "It's only fitting for a musical comedy," Benoist says of the crossover's romantic ending. "And Darren was the perfect person to play that. He did an amazing job and was so charismatic and funny, and he just brings that positivity. It was the perfect twist for the setting."

Adds Gustin: "Everyone was asking about Darren and what kind of villain he is. It was cool that he just manipulated us. You never really see that on our show," he says. "It was a cool change of pace. It was unlike anything we've ever done or may ever do again. It was a nice break from all the melodrama that's happening all season. We really flipped that on its head and did the opposite and made it all about joy."

And Patton adds with a smile, "I don't think anyone wants to see Darren Criss as the villain. It was my first time working with him, and he was just so sweet that I was like, 'Yeah, I'm glad you're not a villain on our show.'"

Lilikoiluv wrote:I'm hoping that Darren has some punny "Vibe" remark he wants to add to the pic so that he posts it.

Lilikoiluv wrote:Ah, Glee.   All we could have had if you had only cast Lea Salonga as Blaine's mom. I know that John Barrowman had said he wanted to be on Glee, as did Lea. Lea, John, probably Darren, and so much of the fandom would have been so happy for this...and the storylines it could have brought! 

Lilikoiluv wrote:Yes! I'm glad you both agree with me that this definitely needs to happen!  To the Cast and Crew of "The Flash" and "Supergirl": Please see Poppy's list above for your essential pre-, during, and post-episode tweeting/instagramming posting, please and thank you.

Lilikoiluv wrote:Yay!  BTS pics from "The Flash" and "Supergirl"!  
I have to admit that I too was a bit disappointed that the Music Meister's garish costume and red!hair from the cartoon is not making an appearance.  Seeing Darren going all out in that costume would have been hilarious, and I'm sure Darren would have enjoyed playing off of it too. lol. 

Lilikoiluv wrote:*Jeremy* mentioned seeing more of Darren's face in the episode's costume would be a good thing and I agree.  But some of the bts pics show Darren wearing some kind of eyewear and I wonder if it's a part of the Music Meister's costume?  

Lilikoiluv wrote:If those are a part of his costume, at least they don't seem to be as huge at the cartoon version, and hopefully we'll get to see the Music Meister without his glasses at some point . . . for . . . you know . . . character development . . . and such.  Ahem. 

dusty wrote:Awww! Love it! Thanks for posting Poppy! Yes, rather ironic isn't it...how the tables have turned! Lol!

Jeremy wrote:I'm curious to see Darren in his MM costume. I hope we get a picture in the next days.

Lin wrote:
Yay, love the pictures!  
I don't expect to see his costume until official press pictures get released, at least not from Darren. He was already pretty secretive about his Glee wardrobe even though it really wasn't significant.