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.
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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.
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