So, I watched Gotham Ep 6 last night more out of duty than desire; to my surprise I actually enjoyed (almost) every minute of it! We see a younger Harvey Bullock back in his idealistic days, taking down a suitably creepy serial killer, but causing his partner to be invalided off the force in the process. Ten years later ( a la 'True Detective', maybe?) it looks like the killer has managed to return from the dead, but through something resembling detective work, our heroes track him to the same hideout he used previously (the first bum note in the episode; it doesn't even look like the place has even changed in any way over the intervening decade!). It then transpires that the two killers were in fact the victims of a hypnotherapist who was using them as proxies in a campaign to punish Gotham's elite for allowing the city to fall into the hands of organised crime, the death of the Waynes apparently the motivation for the more recent 'Goat' abductions/murders. And to top it off, while Harvey wraps up the case, Gordon is arrested for Oswald's murder, only for 'penguin' to show up at GCPD HQ just as Gordon is about to be booked. This was the first episode I've seen that didn't feature Fish Mooney,and it was all the better for it. Jada Pinkett-Smith's 'acting' is by far the worst thing about the show, so I'm delighted to hear she won't be returning for season 2. The treatment of vigilantes in the show so far presents them as a menace, rather than a blessing, which no doubt will influence Gordon's attitude to the arrival of the Dark Knight in the future. Nygma's interest in Miss Kringle is too creepy; some of his behaviour borders on sexual harassment, some of it practically stalking, none of it evidence of a massive superiority complex. Selina Kyle needs to be doing more than skulking around in the background; it's high time she and Bruce met properly. Overall, a vast improvement in this episode, let's hope it stays like this.
Review of Spirit of the Goat
