Yes, yes yes! Gotham has finally delivered the type of enthralling episode it has been promising since it started. This is a great Batman prequel story and not like last episodes police procedural. Finally the mechanical Gordon (Ben McKensie) is shown to be vulnerable when the physical threat of Galavan (James Frain) is revealed. The slow crescendo to[…]
Gotham does seem to be learning from past mistakes and abandoning its villain of the week structure in favour of character driven season spanning arcs. On the negative side so much happened in this episode characters weren’t given enough time to react. Robin Lord Taylor‘s Penguin is sent on a collision course with Theo Galavan (James Frain) after[…]
My love-hate relationship with this TV series continues. After the last couple of weak episodes I was happy to be surprised and gripped at moments during this episode “By Fire”. I was pleased this was not another villain of the week episode, but concentrates on progressing the series arc. The rushed origins of last week’s Firefly evokes much more[…]
Here we go again. The series has slipped back into a rushed villain of the week episode. This episode titled “Scarification” breezes through the origins of the Firefly. The character quickly evolves from crying at the thought of crime to revelling in it, including attacking GCPDs new Strike Force members. One of the dull and forgettable Strike Force may[…]
Following Gotham‘s strongest ever episode last week was always going to be a daunting task. However this episode is better; it manages to build and improve on last week. The opening Rise of the Villains trilogy has been a triumph for this series. The colourful villains have once again captured the tone of their comic book origins. The[…]