8 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Gotham
6. The GCPD Is Forever Being Decimated
The Gotham City Police Department is famously one riddled with corruption, and that element is particularly rife in the Gotham TV show, yet revisiting this series causes it to hit home just how often the GCPD headquarters are left in ruins.
It took only a matter of episodes for the main room of the GCPD HQ to be set upon by no-good sorts, and this soon became a scarily recurring theme. Barely a handful of episodes would go by before the latest goons of the week, internal corruption, or a heavy hitter like Jerome turned their attention to causing chaos within the hallowed home of Gotham's supposed finest.
Given how Gotham was originally designed as a show to be led by Ben McKenzie's Jim Gordon and centre on the underhand work of the city's bent cops, the GCPD HQ was essentially a character all of its own - with the locale appearing in more episodes than 90% of the show's cast.
Not only does a revisit of Gotham soon hit home just how alarmingly frequently the home of the GCPD is trashed, shot up, or even blown up, but you also realise how illogically quick the place somehow gets repaired as if nothing had ever happened - and likewise how the staff numbers of the GCPD are quietly, quickly replenished after more and more nameless cops are killed off.