portrays Laurel Lance / Black Canary, based on the DC Comics character Black Canary,[6][7] an attorney turned vigilante and former girlfriend of Oliver Queen. Like Oliver, Laurel fights for the people of Starling City. In the first season, she works for a non-profit legal office that helps people in need. Cassidy said she was drawn to the show by Berlanti, Nutter, Kreisberg, and Guggenheim, whom she called smart, creative, and edgy.[8] Cassidy sees her character as a "caregiver" to her family, which led her to become an attorney. She said, "I think that she's very, very driven, and she has a huge heart [...] she's sensitive. She has really strong morals and values, and she expects everybody to live up to them the way that she does."[9]
portrays Laurel Lance / Black Canary, based on the DC Comics character Black Canary,[6][7] an attorney turned vigilante and former girlfriend of Oliver Queen. Like Oliver, Laurel fights for the people of Starling City. In the first season, she works for a non-profit legal office that helps people in need. Cassidy said she was drawn to the show by Berlanti, Nutter, Kreisberg, and Guggenheim, whom she called smart, creative, and edgy.[8] Cassidy sees her character as a "caregiver" to her family, which led her to become an attorney. She said, "I think that she's very, very driven, and she has a huge heart [...] she's sensitive. She has really strong morals and values, and she expects everybody to live up to them the way that she does."[9]
portrays Laurel Lance / Black Canary, based on the DC Comics character Black Canary,[6][7] an attorney turned vigilante and former girlfriend of Oliver Queen. Like Oliver, Laurel fights for the people of Starling City. In the first season, she works for a non-profit legal office that helps people in need. Cassidy said she was drawn to the show by Berlanti, Nutter, Kreisberg, and Guggenheim, whom she called smart, creative, and edgy.[8] Cassidy sees her character as a "caregiver" to her family, which led her to become an attorney. She said, "I think that she's very, very driven, and she has a huge heart [...] she's sensitive. She has really strong morals and values, and she expects everybody to live up to them the way that she does."[9]
Arrow is an American television series developed by writer/producers Greg Berlan
ti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg. It is based on the DC Comics characte r Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Pap p. It premiered in North America on The CW on October 10, 2012, with internation al broadcasting taking place in late 2012. Primarily filmed in Vancouver, Britis h Columbia, Canada, the series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen, portray ed by Stephen Amell, who, five years after being stranded on a hostile island, r eturns home to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow. Unlike in the comic books, Queen does not initially g o by the alias "Green Arrow". The series takes a realistic look at the Green Arrow character, as well as other characters from the DC Comics universe. Although Oliver Queen/Green Arrow had b een featured in the television series Smallville from 2006 to 2011, the producer s decided to start clean and find a new actor (Amell) to portray the character. Arrow focuses on the humanity of Oliver Queen, and how he was changed by time sp ent shipwrecked on an island. Most episodes have flashback scenes to the five ye ars in which Oliver was missing. Arrow has received generally positive reviews from critics, and was the CW's hig hest-rated new series in five years. The series averaged about 3.68 million view ers over the course of the first season, and has received three awards and multi ple nominations. To promote it, a preview comic book was released before the tel evision series began, while webisodes featuring a product tie-in with Bose were developed for the second season. The first and second seasons are available on D VD and Blu-ray in regions 1, 2 and 4; a soundtrack was also released for the fir st two seasons. The third season premiered on October 8, 2014,[2] with a spin-of f series set in the same universe, titled The Flash, airing on October 7, 2014.[ 2] On January 11, 2015, Arrow was renewed for a 23-episode