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Old 15th March 2018, 01:35 PM
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This is old news to most i suppose.

Just begun watching Gotham. I'm currently five episodes in and ,loving it.

A brilliant noir series about the origins of the Batman universe. Much closer in tone to the two Tim Burton films than anything produced by DC the last few years.

No one has superpowers and it's all very realistic and rings true, so far it's akin to Scorsese's Goodfellas with it's mob war story lines than it is silly throwing buildings at one another escapades.

The cast is excellent. I didn't know of lead actor Ben Mckenzie but he's very good as young police lieutenant James Gordon. In fact apart from Sean Pertwee's Alfred and Donal Logue as a rogue cop, the cast is unknown except the excellent Jada Pinkett-Smith as one of the mob bosses.

I can sum this up as superhero stuff that bizarre_eye would enjoy. Ie - no superheroes whatsoever, just noirish crime.

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