If you're like me, you watched tonight's Gotham and wondered, Who the hell is this show for? That question became particularly pertinent tonight when a trio of heavily armed heavies eat poisoned cannoli, but only after one ribs another thusly: "Ain't that right, Dickie?" If that kind of goofy humor was liberally applied throughout this episode, I might have given episode writer Kevin Woodruff the benefit of the doubt. But if anything, it suggests that the series' citywide scope asks viewers to arbitrarily shift their sympathies whenever showrunner Bruno Heller and the other powers that be need us to. Granted, that's the main conceit of "Arkham," a subplot-rific episode that highlights various different rivals who have the same goals but never work together. The first pair is Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) and James Gordon (Ben McKenzie), an odd couple momentarily brought together by Cobblepot's psychopathic ambition. That's right, Cobblepot...
- 10/14/2014
- by Simon Abrams
- Vulture
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