Martin Carr reviews the eighteenth episode of Gotham season 4… The League of Shadows, counter kidnapping, exploding heads and a kitsch musical homage with festival soundstage overtones help bring things to life this week. Monaghan chews up the screen, is given more time to hone his alter ego to unnerving affect, whilst pastiche drifts closer […]

Martin Carr reviews the seventeenth episode of Gotham season 4… Plot threads are two a penny in Gotham right now, as long running character interests jockey for position alongside fledgling sub-plots. Audience attentions are split, narrative focus seems scattershot while news of series cancellation is rife. Story development is veering into the realms of doppelgangers, […]

Martin Carr reviews the sixteenth episode of Gotham season 4… Jim Gordon is fast developing a legacy of wrong doing for the right reasons in Gotham. A millstone of questionable choices, criminal allegiances and circumstantial petty felonies haunt his every step. Kept in check by a morally flexible partner with the goods on him Gordon […]

Martin Carr reviews the fifteenth episode of Gotham season 4… Retribution, collusion, triple crosses and final curtain calls go hand in hand with some dental torture, hammer time pay back and reconciliations this week. For reasons which go beyond explanation Gotham experiences peaks and troughs both narratively and character wise. In a week which feels […]

Martin Carr reviews the fourteenth episode of Gotham season 4… Schizophrenic split personalities, coded messages between colluding confidants and hand to hammer gangland retribution is rift in ‘Reunion’ this week. Villainy is being rendered like high class soap from upper class body fat, as story threads, double crosses and law enforcement epiphanies come home to […]