Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Gotham season 5…  What a difference a day makes or in this case seven. After that sense of lethargy and stasis which came with forty minutes of exposition and no narrative progress, episode two feels like a a different beast. Darkness in tone, darkness in motivation and obviously […]

Martin Carr reviews the twentieth episode of Gotham season 4…   Grave side vigils, psychotic twin siblings and full scale riots inside the GCPD are only a few elements of ‘That Old Corpse’. With split personalities Jerome and Jeremiah as flip sides of the same coin, Gotham contains a singular performance better suited to cinema […]

Martin Carr reviews the twenty-first episode of Gotham season 4… In bearing witness to the psychological trauma metered out by ‘One Bad Day’ you have to ask why questions are still hanging over Gotham’s renewal. With watershed boundaries torn down, blood ebbing between the cracks of a city in ruins and all hope lost what […]

Martin Carr reviews the season 4 finale of Gotham… Gunshot paralysis, cold blooded revenge and Martial Law await any and all who venture into No Man’s Land this week. Gotham has morphed into a battleground rife with vigilantes, ripe for turf war and filled with recriminations. Elements of The Killing Joke, moments of Ledger bleeding […]

Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Gotham season 5… Post-apocalyptic Gotham is not as was hoped full of odious surprises, cryptic villains and heavy fire power. Instead territories are carved up and ruled by influence, muscle, economics or sheer numbers. Cut off from civilisation and mustering forces in a constant battle for food, medicine, […]