{"id":7586,"date":"2016-05-24T18:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T22:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2017-10-15T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T22:07:41","slug":"gotham-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/gotham-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotham (season 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I could have saved him. I saw him going down this path, becoming more and more obsessed. Why didn&#8217;t I do something?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gotham <\/strong>season 2, aired in 2015-16<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Loeb fires Jim Gordon from the GCPD. Jim&#8217;s former partner, Harvey Bullock, has resigned and is working as a bartender. Oswald Cobblepot has moved up in the world, and Gordon makes a deal with him. Several inmates at Arkham Asylum manage to escape, including Barbara Kean. Bruce Wayne came to believe that his father was hiding a secret, and he and Alfred find it &#8212; a tunnel behind the fireplace.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of the season is subtitled <strong>Rise of the Villains<\/strong>. The first and second halves of the season were separated by a long break.<\/p>\n<p>Watching <strong>Gotham<\/strong> is a bit like watching <strong>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/strong> &#8212; it&#8217;s pretty crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The writing quality is maintained from season 1 &#8212; you won&#8217;t be able to stop watching.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes between Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle are delightful, as are the scenes between Ed Nygma and Oswald Cobblepot.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, and Cory Michael Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Chiklis joins the cast as Jim&#8217;s new boss. BD Wong shows up as Hugo Strange, the man in charge of Arkham Asylum.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/gotham-season-1\/\">season 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I could have saved him. I saw him going down this path, becoming more and more obsessed. Why didn&#8217;t I do something?&#8221; Gotham season 2, aired in 2015-16 Commissioner Loeb fires Jim Gordon from the GCPD. Jim&#8217;s former partner, Harvey Bullock, has resigned and is working as a bartender. Oswald Cobblepot has moved up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[92,9,5,11],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-batman","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8236,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions\/8236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}