Gotham

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Season 2
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2014
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 213 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 151 out of 213
  2. Mixed: 30 out of 213
  3. Negative: 32 out of 213
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  1. eagleeyeviking
    Sep 26, 2016
    5
    Season 2 of Gotham is still the entertaining mess that Season 1 was. While things get darker this time around, the lack of consistency in terms of quality of the episodes is a put off.
  2. YorkMan
    Mar 15, 2016
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gotham is a distinctly average show. It's well acted, directed, scored etc... From a production standpoint, it's hard to fault.
    The problem is the nature of the series' narrative.

    The show is set in Gotham about 10 years or so before Batman shows up. Sounds intriguing in principle, but in actuality it's nothing more than a means to provide extremely brief nerdgasms for those who have an interest in Batman and the lore surrounding him.

    The problem stems from the fact that Batman has been around since the early 1940's, as a character, and has gone through innumerate different media formats to the present day. As such, people watching the show will automatically know where nearly every main character's story arc will go.

    You have teenagers Bruce Wayne (Batman), Selina Kyle (Catwoman), Ivy Pepper (Poison Ivy), and Bridget Pike (Firefly)...

    As well as the 'evil' adult characters.... Oswald Cobblepot (Penguin), Edward Nygma (The Riddler), Victor Fries (Mr. Freeze), Hugo Strange (Doctor Strange) and Harvey Dent (Two-Face)

    And the 'good' ones, without alter-egos.... Inspector Jim Gordon (the 'star' of the show), Harvey Bullock, Alfred Pennyworth, Leslie Thompkins, and Lucius Fox.

    Now, unless the people writing the show decide to get all 'Game Of Thrones', and kill off one (or more) of these 'well established in DC Comic lore' characters, then we have incredibly little suspense, and by that I mean the ones from that list YOU don't recognise! Any you do, definitely won't be killed! But even then, a few characters have appeared to have died, and just turned up in Arkham Asylum under the care of Doctor Strange... So, it's not like death is a definite end to an actor's paycheck in Gotham!

    But, as a viewer, what this means is every time young Bruce Wayne is in danger, there is no actual suspense. We KNOW he'll get out of it, same with Jim Gordon, Penguin, E. Nygma and the like....

    So, how do writer's overcome this niggle? Well, in a good series they would endeavour to avoid easy tropes, cliched storylines, and 'magical' explanations for why certain things happen to get our heroes (and villains) out of danger.
    But this isn't a good series. So, we get very tired and predictable stories that aren't very interesting.

    However, I'm a man, so as long as we still have the very attractive female characters, I'll keep watching to see what figure-hugging, cleavage showing outfits they end up wearing.

    Taking a shot whenever you see some cleavage is an excellent drinking game!    … Expand
  3. Tony1984
    May 17, 2017
    5
    Season 1 was all Penguin and in Season 2 we've moved away from Oswald Cobblepot and onto to the other characters in the Batman universe. And unfortunately it just doesn't entertain as much as it should or even could. It feels weak and lifeless when Penguin isn't on the screen. Especially Master Bruce.. He and his mini characters are a bore. Alfred, Nygma, Bullock are good everything elseSeason 1 was all Penguin and in Season 2 we've moved away from Oswald Cobblepot and onto to the other characters in the Batman universe. And unfortunately it just doesn't entertain as much as it should or even could. It feels weak and lifeless when Penguin isn't on the screen. Especially Master Bruce.. He and his mini characters are a bore. Alfred, Nygma, Bullock are good everything else is only fair.… Expand
  4. roinujrino
    Sep 21, 2015
    6
    The perfect series became just another story about Batman and its villains, maybe that's what it was since the beginning, but somehow they made it look like it could be something different. Well, it is not different at all, and it makes me really sad.
  5. Knighthawk81
    Sep 22, 2015
    4
    I wanted to love "Gotham," but I just thought the first season was OK. This season was billed as being darker, and the first episode kind of was, but not in a great way. Who is the hero in this show? It's not Jim Gordon, who's now just as bent as the criminals he seeks to stop.

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Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Under The Radar
    Reviewed by: Zach Hollwedel
    Sep 21, 2015
    70
    The show is still subject to the freak-of-the-week formula that so pervasively plagues comic book series, and its treatment of the criminally insane remains more criminally over-the-top than in Gotham's peer programs (Arrow and The Flash, most notably). On the whole, though, Gotham's second season debuts as strong as--if not stronger than--the series premiere, encouraging those who stuck with the hammy inaugural season to settle in for the long haul.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jeff Jensen
    Sep 21, 2015
    50
    With so much hammy and hollow hideousness running wild, Gotham needs its heroes to provide some grounding and winsome humanity. But the fixation with villainy--with anti-heroic postures--extends to them, as well.
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  3. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Sep 21, 2015
    50
    There's a much sharper focus and clearer sense of direction.... [However,] Gotham remains fundamentally unbalanced, and there doesn't seem to be a solution short of a time jump that DC Comics would likely never allow.
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