Arrow Ep. 3.01 “The Calm” an exciting, slightly overstuffed premiere
When “The Calm” begins, things are going pretty well for Starling City’s favorite vigilante: The Arrow is winning awards from the city (given by none other than newly-appointed Captain Lance), bad guys are being ticked off one by one with ease; simply put, everything is good for Oliver Queen, even though his family’s company is about to be sold from underneath him. But as the title ominously suggests, peace in Starling City was not built to last: and as Arrow begins to set up shop for the various stories of the season, “The Calm” delivers an unsettling, surprisingly brutal episode about identity and family, an hour that appears to catalyze a number of ambitious stories for Arrow’s third season.