Gotham Season 1 Review

“Gotham” fans, it’s all over until at least the fall, and we come into this finale review with one basic question: Are you really entertained? Despite many of the show’s flaws (and there were many tonight), we still thought that this was an entertaining hour that shows some tremendous progress between where the show was, and where […]

It may have taken us a little bit of time to get to where we are now in “Gotham,” but we feel like the stage is finally set for a pretty solid season 1 finale … at least so long as you love the Penguin story. This is really the best thing the show has […]

Remember Barbara Kean? It’s hard not to, but it’s hard to remember anything significant that she has actually done over the course of “Gotham” so far. She’s been at times a former drug user, a devoted girlfriend, in a runaway relationship with Montoya, and extremely depressed. We have no clue who this character actually is. Yet, […]

Oh “Gotham,” how we’ve missed you! The truth here is that “Beasts of Prey” felt almost like a midseason premiere for the show, and one that we would’ve preferred to the actual midseason premiere earlier this year. It finally laid to waste that whole Fish Mooney – island prison story, and also introduced a new, […]

In a way, we enjoyed “Gotham” getting down to the nitty-gritty with “Everyone Has a Cobblepot.” This is a show that has spent so much time as of late focusing on things that we don’t find particularly necessary, and also characters who are trying too hard to be instant references to Batman. We’re actually somewhat […]

If you’ve been waiting to see “Gotham” somehow take a big step forward in their storytelling, “Red Hood” may be an episode that you are now celebrating. After a clear miss with the Jerome / Joker story in terms of hitting things on the nose, introducing the Red Hood gang or more specifically Red Hood […]

To anyone who knows the world of Batman particularly well, you understand the importance of the Joker. He is the yin to Batman’s yang, the most notorious villain he encounters. There is no equivalent of this character in the “Gotham” universe. So have this mysterious Jerome kid be the Joker would just be … meh. Right? […]

“The Scarecrow” was the title for tonight’s episode of “Gotham,” and the implication here was huge. This was a chance to tell the origin story for Jonathan Crane, a man who will someday become a master of fear and one of the most notable Batman villains of all time. After watching this hour of TV, […]

When you fear saw “The Fearsome Dr. Crane” as an episode title for “Gotham,” for the most part you had to know what was coming: This is an episode that was designed for one primary purpose only, and that was making sure that the story eventually set up a reveal that will be the Scarecrow […]

“Welcome Back, Jim Gordon” was the second episode of “Gotham” back after the winter hiatus, so of course there was a certain hope that this would be a story that would be responsible for really pushing the story forward in some grand way. We didn’t quite have that. Instead, this could really be the tale […]