Everything we thought we knew about so many of Gotham's established characters has been thrown out the window. In short: MONTOYA AND ALLEN ARE AWESOME.
Robin Lord Taylor, who plays Cobblepot, has arguably been the MVP of the series so far -- no small feat with this cast -- so it's no coincidence that the show delivers when he's in the spotlight.
Gotham has become the show Batman fans wanted it to be. While the series has improved greatly since the pilot episode, it's also been searching for a rhythm. "Penguin's Umbrella" changed things up and became easily the strongest episode of the series yet.
It takes a bit of a nose dive as some of the show's dullest half-baked characters bogarted the spotlight for one very undercooked hour -- an installment that stepped outside the Murder of the Week format for the first time yet fell flat on its face.
While tonight's episode may not live up to its explosive title, it once again shows that Gotham can craft an intriguing and compelling hour of television when it slows down its pace and focuses on juggling just a few characters and storylines at a time.
The moment we've all been waiting for: an episode of Gotham where not only did Detective James Gordon avoid being the least captivating character in Gotham's menagerie of crooks and carnival freaks, he might have actually been the most captivating.
A pretty solid, ultra-serialized episode this week. An installment that felt like a bit of a dangerous game-changer for Gordon -- a sort of "point of no return" for a character who was seemingly all alone in his crusade to end Gotham's corruption.
Despite some negligible problems, this week's Gotham delivered what every other episode has tried and failed to deliver: a serialized neo-noir with Godfather-size scope that also happens to be set in Batman's world.
