Between my full time day job, my children (aka the best kids in America), and the lack of extra spending money, I don’t get to go to conventions that often. I go to NYCC, but end up planting myself in a hall that doesn’t clear out after each panel (damn you main stage), furiously writing and posting everything I can for Geeks of Doom. My husband got us VIP tickets for Heroes and Villains Fan Fest in Secaucus, NJ this weekend, and I didn’t know what to expect. I knew the event was more focused, targeting a specific fan – lovers of comic books and comic-based shows. Even more specific – fans of The CW’s hit show Arrow, with Gotham, Heroes, The Flash, Comic Book Men, Agent Carter, Legends of Tomorrow, and wrestling mixed in.

More below.

Few previews have ever brought legitimate goosebumps to my flesh. The first teasers for ABC’s newest thriller, The Whispers, did just that with only a few seconds long clip – a little girl rolling a ball to no one… and the ball gets pushed back. Now ABC released a first look 5-minute video that has all the hairs on my arms standing.

Check the video below.

Gotham
Season 1 Episode 19: “Beasts Of Prey”
Directed by Eagle Egillson
Written by Ken Woodruff
Created by Bruno Heller
Starring Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, David Mazouz, Cory Michael Smith, Morena Baccharin, Camren Bicondova, Erin Richards, Zabryna Guevara, Andrew Stewart-Jones, Victoria Cartegena
FOX
Air Date: Monday, April 13th, 2015, 8pm

It’s finally back! Before we get to this week’s review, let’s recap how we got here on Gotham.

It has been a banner first season for Bruno Heller‘s hit Gotham. This Batman prequel series has brought us a myriad of characters from the DC universe as well as a major one invented just for the show. Focusing on how everyman Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) shakes up the GCPD and tries to clean up the city, we have seen how everyone and everything is not black and white, but many shades of gray, including the setting. He and his reluctant partner, Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) use regular and unorthodox methods to try to bring down the bad guys, including the ones with badges. From Penguin to Riddler to Catwoman to The Joker (Robin Lord Taylor, Cory Michael Smith, Camren Bicondova, Cameron Monoghan), from Poison Ivy to The Ogre to The Dollmaker To Two-Face (Clare Foley, Milo Ventimiglia, Colm Feore, Nicholas D’Agosto), we have been delightfully inundated with future Batman villains. We even got a brand new villain this season in Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith), a powerfully vicious, yet loyal woman who will pluck out her own eye and stomp on it, rather than be controlled. And of course we have young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz), whose parents were murdered to kick off the season, leaving him in the care of his more-than-meets-the-eye butler, Alfred (Sean Pertwee).

FOX and Gotham released more clips from the upcoming Episode 1.19 “Beasts of Prey,” which features Milo Ventimiglia as The Ogre. The Ogre is a “Don Juan” serial killer that has basically been allowed to carry on because he would target the loved ones of any cop at the GCPD who tried to investigate.

Watch all 8 video clips and enjoy the episode images here below.

Gotham returns next Monday, April 13th, and oh how we’ve missed it. To get ready for its highly anticipated return, FOX has released a plethora of videos including two trailers for the upcoming Episode 1.19 “Beasts of Prey,” and an inside look into Gotham’s oldest/newest villain, the Ogre (Milo Ventimiglia), a serial killer that toys with beautiful young women before he kills them.

Check out all the videos of that, plus get a little insight into Ed Nygma (Cory Michael Smith) and Dr. Leslie Thompkins (Morena Baccharin) here below.