Gotham episode 11/12 review

Gotham has been gone for a few months in the UK and now it is back with both episode 11 and twelve. Now I know I haven't spoke about gotham that much on this blog so I will give a quick intro on my feelings for Gotham so far. It has underwhelmed me to say the least, with all these rich characters in this rich setting it could be understandable that they have tried too much and until they become more focused on the important characters then this show will fail. Be careful for spoilers if you haven't seen either episode yet.

These two episodes focus on Gordon's demotion to arkham asylum and his relationship with Dr Leslie Tompkins as he tries to stop the villain the electrocutioner. Also falcone tries to get the mob sorted in Gotham and for himself to come back to his usual self.

Now I must admit I thought mckenzie's performance as Jim Gordon was a big wooden in the first half of the season but I like this Gordon much more. He has become a more fleshed out character and seems to have more humour to him, that maybe due to his new workplace or a new love interest who he has great chemistry with.

The ssupporting cast was pretty decent too, Dr Tompkins is a big character in the Dc universe and it was a great decision to bring to the show because she has added allot to the Gordon character that was completely necessary. The villain of the electrocutioner was pretty interesting but he just lacked a little something to make him a truly interesting villain. Falcone was great and I am glad it seems like he is going to be a larger influence towards the end of the season.

I was interested in the Gordon story and the falcone story, but it just feels like the story of Gotham is moving at a snail's pace compared to their competitors. Also it still has the problem that the series is focusing on too many characters at the same time which brings problems about what characters we should truly be caring about.

As I said before the script was better with more funny dialogue between the characters and it seems like the wooden dialogue is starting to evaporate.

The style of the episodes were great with the effects for the police station scene in episode 12 was one of the best I have seen from any comic book show this season.

Overall these episodes were a little bit of a step up for the show but they still seem to have some of the problems that they had in the first half of the episodes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck5JLXguVss
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojFKcDSys2U
These are the promos to both episodes.