100 Word TV Review: Gotham: The Mask

Last week Gotham put the gangsters/Gordon forward and the episode was great. This week had Barbara, Catwoman, Nygma, and Bruce Wayne’s school life and suffered for it (Actually I did like Wayne beating up Tommy Elliot/Baby Hush)

As usual the Gordon/Bullock stuff was great, and the two characters/actors are showing a lot of chemistry that makes watching them the best part of the show.

The show would benefit from focusing on Gordon’s story without the goofier elements (Nygma), pointless elements (Barbara, Catwoman), and sending Bruce Wayne off to train with Lady Shiva and Ducard for a season or two.

100 Word TV Review: Gotham: The Balloonman

I can imagine this episode and it’s silly villain will get a lot of flak from reviewers, but I really enjoyed it. The show continues to find its feet and I still have faith that there will be an episode that pulls it all together. Barbara, Gordon’s love interest, is a badly-written, waste of time. She just walks around the apartment looking glamorous while vaguely distrusting Gordon but never really committing to it. I really like Sean Pertwee’s Alfred.  He’s playing it well and definitely seems like a man who could be talked into going along with Bruce’s eventual crusade.

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100 Word TV Review: Gotham: Selina Kyle

A vast improvement over last week as the cutesy references were played down in favour of a tight crime story with sprinkles of Bat-mythos adding to the flavour instead of overpowering it. I’ll admit the first ten minutes or so were a little shaky and lowered my hopes, but everything that followed the Falcone and Mooney pow wow was very good. The Bullock/Gordon partnership is shaping up well and I like the modernisation of Bruce Wayne’s survivors guilt and trauma. An episode high point was Oswald Cobblepot, who is shaping up to be a very formidable and quite terrifying villain.

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100 Word TV Review: Doctor Who: Into the Dalek

The second episode of Capaldi’s Doctor was actually quite disappointing. I feel like we’re still getting used to this Doctor and something a little more character building might have worked better. Matt Smith’s first post-regeneration episode (The Beast Below) did a lot to establish his character and relationship with his companion. This episode gave us a taste of The Doctor’s new darker, more callous side but I didn’t feel like it was done in a particularly exciting way (The Doctor being compared to a Dalek has been done before, and better).

Positives: Danny Pink has potential and Clara’s killing it.

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100 Word TV Review: Doctor Who: Deep Breath

Doctor Who is back. Last seen contemplating his kidney colour at Christmas, Peter Capaldi steps into the role proper for his first episode, Deep Breath. Regeneration episodes are hard as the writer needs to introduce the new actor to the viewers and the new doctor to the other characters while also telling a compelling story. Moffat has shown himself capable of doing this (Eleventh Hour was awesome!) and manages to do so again here. Capaldi’s Doctor is angry, crazy, wild, unpredictable, Scottish, angry eyebrow-ed and a little bit of a dick. A great episode that left me hungry for more.

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