Gotham
Season 1 Episode 17: “Red Hood”
Directed by Nathan Hope
Written by Danny Cannon
Created by Bruno Heller
Starring Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, David Mazouz, Camren Bicondova, Erin Richards, Zabryna Guevara, Andrew Stewart-Jones, and Victoria Cartegena
FOX
Air Date: Monday, February 23, 2015, 8pm

How can Gotham possibly get any better? When you are loving every episode and shouting that love from the rooftops, it doesn’t seem like there’s anywhere left to go. How do go up when you are already at the top? It turns out, you can!

Lots of videos to check out here below, along with my review of Episode 1.17 “Red Hood.”

Gotham
Season 1 Episode 16: “The Blind Fortune Teller”
Directed by Jeffrey Hunt
Written and created by Bruno Heller
Starring Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, David Mazouz, Camren Bicondova, Erin Richards, Zabryna Guevara, Andrew Stewart-Jones, and Victoria Cartegena
FOX
Air Date: Monday, February 16, 2015, 8pm

We’ve had quite the amount of Gotham news this week! By now you know (because I told you) that Gotham 1.16 “The Blind Fortune Teller” was going to give us not one, but two hints of the future in the form of Robin (here) and The Joker (here and here). And they certainly delivered!

Spoilers!!!

Fox’s Batman prequel television series Gotham has been very proactive with the villain hints. We think we’ve heard the Joker laugh; have peeped the Scarecrow origins; met Ivy Pepper (Claire Foley), who is already a bit unhinged; have fallen in love with Cat (Camren Bicondova); feel sorry for Nygma (Cory Michael Smith); and have been all in with Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor), the most developed Batman villain to date. Episode 1.2 “Selina Kyle” revealed that The Dollmaker was behind everything, but we did not get to see him. GoD reported that he is coming back and will be seen soon as Colm Feore was cast in that role. We also got to meet Harvey Dent aka Two-Face (Nicholas D’Agosto), who has revealed his double-sided tendencies already. We are still awaiting Mr. Freeze (I, for one, really hope he comes with the Schwarzenegger lines).

Now Gotham will give us a hint of the good in the future, namely in some new images released from episode 16, “The Blind Fortune Teller,” which you can view here below along with a promo video for the episode.

Gotham
Season 1 Episode 15: “The Scarecrow”
Directed by Nick Copus
Written by Ken Woodruff
Created by Bruno Heller
Starring Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, David Mazouz, Camren Bicondova, Erin Richards, Zabryna Guevara, Andrew Stewart-Jones, and Victoria Cartegena
FOX
Air Date: Monday, February 9, 2015, 8pm

What you missed on Gotham 1.14 “The Fearsome Dr. Crane”: Spoilers and wait! Why did you miss it? It sets up this week’s episode!

Besides Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) outing Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) to Maroni (David Zayas); Penguin almost turning into a sedan sandwich; and Bruce (David Mazouz) basically telling Jim (Ben McKenzie) that he sucks, Jim and Harvey (Donal Logue) failed to catch Dr. Crane. Dr. Crane’s super-fun murder spree involves scaring the shit out of his victims as the method of murder, before stealing their adrenal glands. Well…at least Harvey saved the girl.

Gotham “needs a better class of criminal.” Well… maybe the criminals it has are classy enough, but perhaps the Fox television series needs “an agent of chaos.” I just can’t resist the Joker quotes.

The Gotham buzz is that we will get a tiny hint of The Joker before this first season is done. And after the delightful performances of Robin Lord Taylor (Penguin), Cory Michael Smith (future Riddler), Camren Bicondova (future Catwoman), and even a bit of future Poison Ivy, this will be a cherry on top of the psycho sundae.