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James Gordon is a rising detective in the dangerously corrupt Gotham City, where his late father was a successful district attorney. Brave, honest and determined to prove himself, Gordon must ...
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- Benjamin Mckenzie
- TV-14
- 5
Gotham chronicles the life of a young Bruce Wayne growing up and young detective Jim Gordon as they take on a corrupt Gotham City. I though Gotham did a great job at building the world of Batman as he grew up and before he actually became Batman.
Gotham: Created by Bruno Heller. With Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Robin Lord Taylor. The story behind Detective James Gordon's rise to prominence in Gotham City in the years before Batman's arrival.
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- 2014-09-22
- Action, Crime, Drama
- 42
- Batmanland
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By Matt Fowler
Posted: May 9, 2015 6:00 pm
Warning: Full spoilers for FOX's first season of Gotham follow...
For the sake of succinctness, I won't fully go into the minutia of my criticisms of Gotham, FOX's high-profile Batman-verse TV series set fifteen or so year before the Caped Crusader's canon debut. For specifics, you can check out my reviews of the individual episodes if you'd like. Here, I'll try to address broad strokes so as to not get too nit-picky.
Gotham never really felt, throughout this entire first season, like it had stopped struggling to find itself. As if it was crumbling under the daunting shadow of what's to come later on -- down the line on a Batman TV show that will never air -- Gotham had severe issues with tone, story and character consistency. And, to a much greater degree, it had ensemble issues. As in, it felt the need to include certain characters on episodes when it didn't have to. And the needless overcrowding became a huge detriment to the show.
There were many times when an episode didn't need Penguin. Or Fish. Or Bruce. Or, in the case of the finale, Selina. But they were shoved in anyhow and usually given hacky morsels of story. It all smacked of a series doing its best to stretch things out to 44 minutes, 22 times. The most arduous example of this was Fish's entire side adventure with The Dollmaker. Totally unnecessary. Especially since when she did eventually show back up in Gotham it felt like more than a few story beats were skipped. We could have NOT seen her entire Dollmaker arc and she he could have still just shown up with those new henchman, dressed all ridiculously like that, and the overarching story wouldn't have felt any different.
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Gotham had a good look, some solid leads, a really fun take on Penguin, and a lot of Easter Eggs to play with. But all too often it felt like a hodge-podge of every iteration of Batman that had come before it and unsuccessfully tried to merge dark and creepy with cartoonish and kooky. There were also consistency issues with regards to tone, story, ...
Gotham jumped forward ten years and revealed a city that needs Batman, the perfect finale to a show that strived to show the city's origin story.
Apr 19, 2019 · This Gotham review contains spoilers.. Gotham Season 5 Episode 11. As we begin the penultimate episode of Gotham, let us take a moment to appreciate the surprising changes the final story has ...
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