User Reviews

Woah this episode was excellent. Everything has improved drastically.

The first thing I notice is just how big this episode felt. The cinematography, the music, the set design, the effects, it almost felt like a movie.

The writing has also improved, already giving us some great memorable lines.

I'm really intrigued to see how the characters develop. Depressed Selina was seriously dark, and honestly heart breaking to watch. Tabitha's death, while predictable, and convenient, was a long time coming and it honestly felt epic. The rivalry brewed by Oswald and Barbara. Oswald this episode was also fantastic, he's seriously owned the crime lord role.

If I'd have any complaints with the episode it would probably be Nygma. It's a small thing, but I'm tired of his back and forth thing with the Riddler and himself. I hope it gets resolved quickly because I want to see full on Riddler.

Also like I said earlier Tabitha's death, and a few other things in the episode felt to continent.

This episode is more of an introduction. It leaves a lot of loose ends already. It didn't really feel that much like it's own concise episode, but it was seriously great.

If the season continues to be of this quality, Gotham's final season might its best, and just am all around amazing season.

8.5/10

This is an episode leaving you wanting more. Will love to see how they bring in the Jeremiah's joker in later episodes.

Here we have the penultimate version of Gotham, it has all led up to this war for empty turf leading to backstabbing , killings and ruthless behavior! I am excited over the turn of events, great solid performance with the beginnings of the True Dark Knight behavior. Sick dark dimensions drive me to really want and enjoy what's going to happen! So cleverly written!

Wow that was great. Gotham is hands down the best comic book tv show out there. Better than the Netflix Marvels ( and I'm a giant Marvel fan ) and the declining CW shows. Gotham has hit the ground running on all cylinders and the preview for the upcoming season looks nothing short of spectacular with the Dark Knight, Harley Quinn and Bane showing up at some point. Can't wait!!!!

Gotham's 5th season has been a long time coming, but I can safely say that this first episode justifies that wait and promises a bright future for the coming 11 episodes.

This is probably the best 1st episode Gotham has seen yet, with an interesting storyline, interesting cinematography and even a charachter death, which raises the stakes for the rest of the season. That opening scene was amazing, although we now already kinda know who's gonna survive the season, at least until a certain point.

I also really loved the acting of the main cast, Mazouz was solid, McKenzie was great and even though he was barely in it, Pertwee can do no wrong in my eyes.

On top of that, Gotham introduces something we haven't seen in quite a while: Mystery. There is an air of mystery surrounding (mostly the new) characters and story. This is partially because of the raised stakes

Despite all this, there were also quite a few flaws with this episode, mostly that 2 of the 3 main action scenes were shot kinda bad. I'm referring to the first two action scenes, mostly the scarecrow one. While the quick cuts might've enhanced the tension somewhat, it made the fight itself kinda hard to follow and uninteresting, and I would've much preferred some longer takes or at least less close-ups and quick cuts. The second fight had a cool concept, but the execution was less amazing. My biggest problem with this scene is that because of the way it was shot having quite a few restrictions, Bruce seemed a bit slower and weaker than usual. On a positive note: I have zero complaints about the big action scene, that was exceptionally done.

My other complaint is that while the main cast is amazing, the secondary characters' acting was pretty bad, for example the woman talking about 'the witch' felt like she missed a couple of lessons at acting school. There were a few other duds, but overall solid performances and a solid episode.

Overall good premiere, but the helicopter passed GCPD to go to a "rendezvous point" before getting shot down instead of the landing at GCPD...

The rotten swine killed Tabatha, took away one of the best reasons for watching the series. Otherwise a good and as ever depressing start to a series.