TV Review – Gotham – Rise Of The Villains – Dammed If You Do

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Spoiler alerts – Season 2 – Episode 1 A very conscious sense of a series changing direction and upping its own ante, with several hardline villains escaping from Arkham to cause mayhem over the season and an increasing air of madness and desperation. Only Cobblepot – The Penguin, seems in control here. Jim Gordon, the hero, is shockingly reduced to killing a man as he ends up becoming Cobblepot’s errand boy in a very dangerous deal to get his job back, while his lover’s girlfriend vows vengeance even before her asylum break. Bruce Wayne is desperate enough to get into his secret room that he risks blowing up his own mansion, and almost loses his mind entirely though we get just another teaser in the form of a letter and a further choice, though we know which way he is going to go. Strong stuff with great story-telling and comic book gore as a gas-injected villain convinced he is God erupts in Arkham, and a henchman plays ventriloquism with a severed human head. It’s going to be an interesting and very violent season. I look forward to it immensely. Arthur Chappell