Gotham season 2 review

“Gotham” has told a really remarkable second half of season 2 stuffed full of a wide array of interesting characters. We met Victor Fries and Hugo Strange, and saw the return of people like Barbara Kean and Fish Mooney in slightly different ways. Let’s start this review for the finale by going ahead and getting […]

Who knew that “Gotham” without the Penguin could actually work so well? We know Oswald is still out there, but like many other recent installments, Monday night focused mostly on Hugo Strange and the quest to stop him, and let’s just say that things are not going so well right now. For one, the quest […]

The moment that Theo Galavan was resurrected in the form of Azrael on Monday night’s new episode of “Gotham,” it seemed fairly clear to us that this was a guy who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals. However, at the same time there was potential that, much like Jerome, he would burn bright […]

We have to say that once we got through about the first thirty minutes of Monday night’s new episode of “Gotham,” we got a sense as to what is going to happen in terms of the loss of a big character. Yet, at the same time, it happened in a pretty extraordinary way. As it […]

We feel like we should begin this particular “Gotham” review with a big statement: Hugo Strange may be the strongest fully-formed villain created on the show so far. With the Penguin, we still feel like we have more development to go before he breaks bad in the way that the Batman villain would; with Hugo, […]

An alternate title for this “Gotham” episode could be “Oswald is Hannibal Lecter’s brother,” or “Oswald is here to participate and not observe.” We could go all day with this esoteric “Hannibal” references, but hey, “MasterChef’s” a more universally-watched show. Plus, who wouldn’t want to see the Penguin facing off with Gordon Ramsay? In a […]

For those of you out there who (somewhat understandably) have felt as though “Gotham” has done a little too much in some of its episodes, Monday night’s “Wrath of the Villains: Prisoners” was an exercise in simplicity. It was also an exercise in strangeness. To think it did this without even having Dr. Hugo Strange […]

Sooner or later, we knew that the ghost of Theo Galavan was going to come back to haunt Jim Gordon on “Gotham” season 2, and it turned out that an anonymous tip plus some further information was all it took to take him downtown. The reality is that this was not a situation where he […]

Sometimes, shows are best when they keep things simple. Going into Monday night’s episode of “Gotham,” it felt almost like someone was speaking this message over and over again and almost willing it to be true. What we had as a result of that was one of the stronger episodes of the season. Through the […]

Given the way in which “Gotham” promoted the second half of the season with constant mentions of Victor Fries, it was probably fair to assume that he was going to be this enormous part of the narrative. However, we then saw the character “die” after having the walls close in around him at the end of […]