Gotham: 10 Easy Ways To Make It Amazing

By Benjamin Brown /

9. Bring On The Rogues Gallery

Since it first premiered back in late September, Gotham has more or less played by the prototypical television procedural rulebook, with each €œcase of the week€ mirroring the very same tropes that we€™ve seen played out on countless CBS shows for years now, albeit here tinged ever so slightly with just enough comic book idiosyncrasies to justify the series€™ reputable title. Unfortunately, this adherence to procedural methodology is also mirrored in the way that the show handles its villains. Balloonman. The Electrocutioner. The Spirit of the Goat€ these aren€™t exactly the baddies that we're itching to watch Gordon and Bullock take down. Let€™s be honest: we want the baddies, those deviant evildoers who we most associate with the Bat-brand. Joker, Two-Face, The Riddler (the actual ruffian, not the irritating knockoff-version who we€™ve gotten so far), Bane, Ra€™s al Ghul, even someone slightly more fantastical like Killer Croc or Manbat. Now those are real villains. Jada Pinkett Smith€™s Fish Mooney is amusingly vivacious from time to time, and to the show€™s credit, it has given us a formidable-enough rendering of serial killer Victor Zsasz. But if Gotham€™s going to continue to hold a weekly space on our DVRs, it€™s first going to have to get us interested in what it€™s doing€and what better way to do just that than having one of Batman€™s most iconic baddies drop by for a visit?