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EPISODE
SEASON
Gotham - Season 1 Episode 05: Viper
Gotham is the origin story of the great DC Comics Super-Villains and vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told. James Gordon and Harvey Bullock are assigned to track down the killer of Thomas and Martha Wayne. The story behind Commissioner James Gordon';;;;;s rise to prominence in Gotham City in the years before Batman';;;;;s arrival. Along the way, Gordon becomes involved with Gotham';;;;;s Mafia families and associates including gangster Fish Mooney, Don Carmine Falcone, and Italian mob boss Salvatore Maroni. Eventually, Gordon is forced to form an unlikely friendship with Bruce, one that will help shape the boy';;;;;s future in becoming the Batman.
22 August 1958, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
24 April 1969, Dana Point, California, USA
26 July 1969, Anaheim, California, USA
22 May 1999, San Diego, California, USA
26 September 1988, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
2 February 1973, Flushing, New York, USA
December 22, 2014
I recommended hanging in there when scoring Gotham's 4-Episode Test, and "Viper" made me feel good about that decision. It wasn't a perfect episode, but Gotham, I think, is always going to struggle to achieve "perfection."
December 22, 2014
The reasons to love this one just keep coming, unlike weeks previously, where the comic bookery was limited to "guy with the name of an unrelated supervillain" or "guy with a pointy stick," "Viper" is classic Batman.
December 22, 2014
At the end of the day, Bruce just needs a friend that isn't a middle-aged man. Selina should drop by for a chat and to play video games or something.
December 22, 2014
Both last week's episode and this week's are thematically cogent but dramatically inert. Which, again, is at least preferable to the shapeless collection of tangents that was the series premiere.
December 22, 2014
There are good aspects about this show as much as there are flawed things, but it's clear that Gotham is continuing to work all that out.
December 22, 2014
It's the show at its weirdest and most gruesome, delivering some of its biggest laugh lines and most wacked-out images yet.
December 22, 2014
We're almost a quarter of the way through Gotham's first season, and the character that has seen the most development is Bruce frickin' Wayne, the emo Encyclopedia Brown. And the only reason he has the most is because he's getting any at all.
December 22, 2014
Gotham continues to feel like a project where no one's entirely sure what the show is -- or, at least, how to make it function as a weekly TV series that has to offer some kind of episodic closure even as the different arcs build.
December 22, 2014
Gotham finally felt like a complete comic book puzzle with no soggy pieces that didn't fit. Except for maybe like one of those Fish Mooney/Liza the Streetfighting Lounge Singer scenes.
December 22, 2014
If last week's episode was the high, this week was the crash from coming down.