User blog comment:Gcheung28/Arrow: Fan Brain - Time of Death/@comment-1639863-20140227233023/@comment-1639863-20140227234740

Honestly, I didn't even really start at episode 1. My TV provider screwed me out of every episode after Season 1 Episode 5.

I would say, maybe Season 2 Episode 1 would be fine. That's approximately where I started, and I'm having a blast. You can pretty much read the very basic paraphrasing for the episodes you miss on Wikipedia (or here, if the stories are written) and still catch up efficiently. Although you would lose a couple of details and maybe some character development that's occurred, it's still a great show to get into. Like I said, even if you get a very vague idea of what happened in the episodes (or even season) prior, anywhere is a pretty good jumping board.