Warning: Full spoilers for the Gotham: Season 5 premiere follow...
Gotham kicks off its shortened final season with one hell of a tease: a fateful day, over a year from the start of this "No Man's Land" arc, where Riddler, Penguin, Jim, and Harvey - the heroes and villains - team up to take on an attacking army. It's a pretty awesome opening beat and one that definitely helps shape the show's last run (even though the final final episode will take place 10 years in the future).
We've got a lot of interesting things coming. Bane will pop up at some point. Jeremiah will return. Everything will wrap up with a massive firefight. Unfortunately, none of that's happening yet and "Year Zero" feels sort of flat as a premiere. Granted, it contains a lot of set up and catch up, but even once the story elements kick in, nothing grabs hold the way it should.
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Gotham kicks off its shortened final season with one hell of a tease: a fateful day, over a year from the start of this "No Man's Land" arc, where Riddler, Penguin, Jim, and Harvey - the heroes and villains - team up to take on an attacking army. It's a pretty awesome opening beat and one that definitely helps shape the show's last run (even though the final final episode will take place 10 years in the future).
We've got a lot of interesting things coming. Bane will pop up at some point. Jeremiah will return. Everything will wrap up with a massive firefight. Unfortunately, none of that's happening yet and "Year Zero" feels sort of flat as a premiere. Granted, it contains a lot of set up and catch up, but even once the story elements kick in, nothing grabs hold the way it should.
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