Season 4 of Gotham kicked off last week with an episode that promised a great deal for the forthcoming year, with the series looking to ramp up the transformation of Bruce Wayne into Batman, among other, less controversial things.
While it might not be the show everyone had initially hoped it was, Gotham has managed to carve its own identity since its introduction in 2014, despite protestations that've called it something of a weird distortion of the Bat-license. That's definitely not the case, however, and the show must be praised for moving away from more traditional interpretations of the character's mythology. What's the point in adapting material if it always has to adhere to the source itself?
Gotham isn't a perfect show, with the potential it exhibited in its first season still yet to be fully tapped, but it's far from the aberrant creation DC fans have deemed it to be these last three years. There's actually a whole lot to enjoy with it, if you can get past or even get behind its sillier elements, and that's without mentioning the sheer talent that's involved with the project both on and off the screen.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
