Gotham Season 2: 7 Things You Need To Know

Changes are afoot in Bruce Wayne's hometown.

Fox's Gotham wrapped up as a ratings success after its first season, but the quality of the show proved much more contentious. After a scrappy start, the series began to find something of a stable identity, but the treatment of certain characters and rushed, ramshackle structure continues to split opinion. Gotham was originally envisioned as a straight origin story for Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), but as the series developed it also came to fixate around a young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) and a cadre of famed villains including Catwoman (Camren Bicondova), Riddler (Cory Michael Smith) and Penguin (Robert Lord Taylor). To me, the original Gordon-centric origin story still feels the most exciting, but it was probably the bad guys who drew in the show's viewership, so eh, what to I know? Since the first year's finish, news about prospective change has been rampant, with casting decisions, character introductions and even major creative re-thinks announced for Season 2. There's a great show - with myriad fertile stories - to be told about a pre-Batman Gotham City, so hopefully these alterations can force Gotham closer toward its optimum potential. Either way, the show's novel concept probably won't be enough alone to keep ratings healthy alone, so the changes afoot had better invigorate the formula in Season 2.
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