"Gotham," Fox's crowd-pleasing new police procedural/comic book mash-up, is a Batman origin story for viewers who don't much care about Batman. (Full disclosure: I'm one of them.) In contrast to Christopher Nolan's desolate "Dark Knight" trilogy, creator Bruno Heller's treatment of the DC Comics universe marshals a colorful cast of characters and more than a little levity to imagine Bruce Wayne's hometown as a garish funhouse rather than an apocalyptic hellscape, all of it sketched in the whiz-bang style of midcentury graphic art. It's the perfect antidote to superhero fatigue. The only superpower Det. James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) seems to possess is a firm moral compass, rare indeed in Gotham's muddle of underworld figures and corrupt cops. As he investigates the cold-blooded murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne, staged as a random robbery, Gordon confronts the city's crooked reality -- including his roguish, world-weary partner, Det.
- 9/21/2014
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
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