Bruno Heller
Gotham

I watched GOTHAM

There are 4 seasons with 22 episodes each, 40-45 minutes per episode, something that never ends. Online it says there are 100 episodes and 5 seasons, but on Netflix there are 4, and it ends with him understanding he's about to become Batman.

The first season is cool with the clashes between the gangs that ruled GOTHAM, the double-crosses, twists, characters.

There's Falcone, the most powerful boss, then there's Maroni, who's number two, there's Fish Mooney, who's a very cool and wicked woman of color, and then there's Oswald Cobblepot, the PENGUIN, who in the beginning is an umbrella holder, all very good actors.

GOTHAM tells its story when Bruce Wayne was a child and his parents get killed, so we see him slowly growing up and living with Alfred, his butler, mentor, guardian, surrogate father, and slave.

Then there's the young Detective Gordon, who is upstanding and indestructible, and maybe the real protagonist, but he's not a great actor, his older colleague is better. We also see the genesis of the Riddler, and this is all very cool too.

From the second season on, it starts to become a mess, but by then I'm hooked, and I have nothing else to do. In the second season, the crazies, the monsters, the evil half-superheroes, the criminal asylum, the genetic experiments, the mutants, the dead people rising, start to arrive.

Then it gets worse and worse, it's incredible. At some point, a guy shows up with a thousand powers, wreaks havoc, he's very evil, and there's a whole story behind it where he hates the Waynes. It's a mind-blowing nonsense, but still watchable, but no, it's a nonsense, oh my God if it is, but I kept watching.

So I keep going, and slowly the Joker arrives, who's a kid but already causing trouble, then he dies, but they bring him back to life, and so on and so forth.

Three thousand shootouts, three thousand narrative inconsistencies, they solve cases in two minutes, they arrest, kill, shoot, get into trouble but always manage to get out (this is Gordon).

In short, it's utterly ridiculous, and the cherry on top of the indefensible nonsense is that the young actor who plays Bruce Wayne is a DAMN TERRIBLE ACTOR. He gets on your nerves with how bad his acting is, it's crazy. A key figure in the series who should be the protagonist if anything is terrible beyond redemption. And all the dialogues with the doormat butler Alfred, with his trauma and uncertainty, and so on, are deadly boring, you can't wait for them to show the Penguin and the Riddler because they're good. And then there's also young Catwoman, who's a girl too, but she's very good, in fact, she even won an award, and she's beautiful and more, so even when she's on, it flows well.

At some point, a 2000-year-old demon man shows up, and he has too many powers, but the actor who plays him is a useless nobody (at least the previous one with a thousand powers, half-demon too, was good). This one is more powerful but is horrible, and you can't even really tell what he wants; I won't even bother explaining.

Anyway, three thousand characters, three thousand plot twists, but only the first season is credible, after it becomes a poorly-made chaotic mess, but with some sparkles, but by then, it's a delirium, and meanwhile, Bruce Wayne grows up (the series lasted 5 years), becomes a young man, but he's still a terrible actor, it's incredible. And it ends with you understanding he'll become Batman, but you couldn't care less, you'd have wanted him to die badly but you know he'll never die.

It would be two stars, but I'll give it three because the first season is cool and to convince myself that I did the right thing by watching it (NOT).

Is there any other fool who dared to watch it all?