Batwoman Season 1 Review: 4 Ups & 3 Downs From 'Down, Down, Down'

1. Tommy Elliot's Reinvention

It goes without saying that Batman fans were eager to see the first ever live-action adaptation of an adult Tommy Elliot/Hush in Batwoman (second overall if you include Gotham's teenage iteration). Unfortunately, it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

Instead of the troubled surgeon who had transformed into a split personality of sorts, what we got was a corrupt businessman interested in nothing but being the king of Gotham and besting his supposed best friend Bruce - and, you know, killing him too. Why did he want to kill Bruce? Well, because the good old Dark Knight had only gone and saved his mother and thus, sentenced him to suffer for thirteen years as he looked after her. And what did this rob him of? Why, his inheritance of course!

The similarities to the comics' arc was there, but Tommy's transformation into Hush in the comics was so poignant and striking not just because of how close he and Bruce were, but because of how good of a man he was perceived and how good a surgeon he was. This was a one-dimensional caricature that everyone knew was selfish in the first place and they were right, because all he wanted was money and power. You see the problem, here?

Gabriel Mann did a fine job bringing the material to life - the only problem is that his performance was the only thing of real substance.

Now, for the positives...