It added buckets of color to that drab, grey skyline. It became a story to match its cast's delightfully hammy performances. But, as I've said before, the writers quickly realized no one was interested and promptly lost its freakin' mind. Gotham started out rough as can be, a show very confused about how to go about making a Batman show without Batman, wedged between a hard-boiled detective show where all the detectives were doofuses and an endless DC Easter Egg hunt where the prize was recognizing that there are plants in a pre-teen Poison Ivy's apartment. But I think watching the show's entire arc has given me an above-the-clouds perspective, like one of those shady blimps that always seems to be hovering over the city for absolutely no reason. I recognize that it's possible this long-term commitment gives me bias or, conversely, has driven me insane. I've written about every episode of Gotham since the pilot episode in 2014 recapping the show was one of my first assignments in this game ever, back when recapping individual episodes of a TV show was still a major thing.
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