Television
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GOTHAM Review: Rise of the Villains; Damned if You Do …
Warning: This Review contains spoilers. After an up and down season Gotham is has returned, and it’s better? With the episode picking up a few months after the previous season ended. Gotham City is now under the complete control of the Penguin, Gordon has been demoted to police officer, Bullock has quit the force, and Barbara has been sent to Arkham Asylum. Jim having been relieved of his job is now in dire need of help. Gordon can’t get his job back without the Penguin’s assistance. Oswald knew this and in an effort to test Jim’s loyalty, he gave him an offer he could not take. He wanted Jim to get a payment from another mob boss, which will…
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Morena Baccarin Voicing Gideon In THE FLASH; Sin Returning To ARROW This Season
We have a couple of updates concerning two characters featured on The Flash and Arrow. First up, TV Line has confirmed that actress Morena Baccarin is voicing Gideon in the former series. The AI assistant of Harrison Wells made her debut in this week’s episode. Baccarin is no stranger to the DC Universe; she has voiced characters such as Black Canary, Talia al Ghul and Cheetah. She is also playing Dr. Leslie Thompkins in Gotham, beginning early next year. Don’t be surprised if we see plenty more of Gideon throughout the rest of The Flash this season. TV Line has also learned that Bex Taylor-Klaus will reprise her role as Sin on Arrow…
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Arrow, Season 3, Episode 7, ‘Draw Back Your Bow’ Review
The following is a review of Arrow Season 3 Episode 7 ‘Draw Back Your Bow,’ and will contain mild spoilers After the tease at the end of the last episode, it seemed like ‘Draw Back Your Bow” would be a rather formulaic episode about the new archer in town that has a rather intense crush on Arrow, but it turned out to be an exciting episode that also managed to take a step beck to work with some of the characters and relationships. This episode roots itself in a flashback to Deathstoke’s assault on Starling City, where Arrow saves a woman from one of Slade Wilson’s mirakuru troops. It turns…
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Arrow, Season 3, Episode 6, ‘Guilty’ Review
The following is a review of Arrow Season 3 Episode 6 ‘Guilty’ and will contain mild spoilers When Wildcat Ted Grant is framed for several murders, Oliver has to trust Laurel when she vouches for him. While Arrow helps Ted investigate, Ted ends up getting arrested for the murders, as well as another similar killing from six years previous. Meanwhile, Roy tries to grapple with his suppressed memories, worried that he was Sara’s true killer, in a delayed burn off of the last of the mirakuru. His blood shows up negative when Felicity tests it, but that doesn’t reconcile his dreams, pr the fact that the virtual autopsy corroborates with them.…
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ARROW: Season 3, Episode 2, ‘Sara’ Review
This review contains spoilers for previous episodes of Arrow. After last week’s episode kicked this season off with a bang (or a twang… too soon?), episode 2, Sara, starts to flesh out more of what we can expect for the rest of the season. There are many high points, but an unfortunate weakness—that has been mostly tolerable to this point—is now being drawn to the forefront of the show. This season is establishing a much more mature Oliver Queen than the previous seasons. Season 1 and 2 focused more on Oliver becoming the Arrow, but now he’s responsible for a whole team, not just himself. In this episode, Oliver feels the…
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GOTHAM Showrunner Talks Influence, Characters, Tone, And Bruce Wayne’s Evolution Into Batman
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller talks in detail about the Batman prequel series. He recalls speaking with Warner Bros. and Geoff Johns about his interest in doing a DC series, and the idea of Jim Gordon investigating the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne was the root concept of the result. “I sat with [Warner Bros. President and COO Peter Roth and Warner Bros. TV development chief Susan Rovner] about what to do next. I’ve been talking to Geoff Johns at DC for a few years about wanting to do something in the DC canon. I came in to pitch the idea that we’re doing, essentially, and…
