+++Warning, this contains minor spoilers from the prior season, but no major season three spoilers+++
The third season of Gotham is essentially split into two parts. The first part, which picks up six months after the end of season two, under the subtitle Mad City, in which Hugo Strange's (B. D. Wong) various beasts and freaks (including the Bruce doppelganger) released after the bus crash are roaming Gotham. Gordon (Ben Mckenzie) has become a private investigator after being fired from the GCPD Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter, to find his sister Alice. Gordon discovers Alice's blood contains a virus which becomes a plot line that affects the rest of the season. Lee (Morena Baccarin) has moved on from Jim and resumes her job at the GCPD, and Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) decides to run for Mayor of Gotham. The major storyline involving Bruce (David Mazouz) this season involves the Court of Owls, a powerful group that basically controls Gotham, and then later in the season, during the Heroes Rise subtitle, The League of Shadows. This season does not end on a major cliffhanger but does set up potential season four story arcs.
For those who get the blu-ray set, the extras include deleted scenes, a portion of the 2016 Comic-Con panel, featurettes on The Court of Owls and the new villains, and a featurette on the episode directed by Ben McKenzie. And, the A/V quality continues to be top-notch, which is great given the heavy use of CGI effects.
Overall, the season is very good. Many of the characters continue to be some shade of gray morally. Some of the bad guys have a twinge of good, and some of the good guys take a dark turn this season. The show continues to have a strong supporting cast including Michael Chiklis, Jamie Chung, Ivana Miličević, Cameron Monaghan, James Remar, Paul Reubens (playing a similar role to his cameo in Batman Returns), and Alexander Siddig. In the third season, the show pretty much transitions from the procedural-serial combination that it has been in the first couple of seasons to a straight serial with a bunch of longer story arcs that run throughout the season and intertwine here and there. The show makes good use of the large ensemble cast and makes a good decision to make Bruce just one of the characters as opposed to the main character, especially since David Mazouz is still relatively young and not exactly physically imposing. So, if you can accept the fact that it is not really a Batman series, but want to see origin stories for the various characters, this is definitely worth your time to watch.
The third season of Gotham is essentially split into two parts. The first part, which picks up six months after the end of season two, under the subtitle Mad City, in which Hugo Strange's (B. D. Wong) various beasts and freaks (including the Bruce doppelganger) released after the bus crash are roaming Gotham. Gordon (Ben Mckenzie) has become a private investigator after being fired from the GCPD Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter, to find his sister Alice. Gordon discovers Alice's blood contains a virus which becomes a plot line that affects the rest of the season. Lee (Morena Baccarin) has moved on from Jim and resumes her job at the GCPD, and Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) decides to run for Mayor of Gotham. The major storyline involving Bruce (David Mazouz) this season involves the Court of Owls, a powerful group that basically controls Gotham, and then later in the season, during the Heroes Rise subtitle, The League of Shadows. This season does not end on a major cliffhanger but does set up potential season four story arcs.
For those who get the blu-ray set, the extras include deleted scenes, a portion of the 2016 Comic-Con panel, featurettes on The Court of Owls and the new villains, and a featurette on the episode directed by Ben McKenzie. And, the A/V quality continues to be top-notch, which is great given the heavy use of CGI effects.
Overall, the season is very good. Many of the characters continue to be some shade of gray morally. Some of the bad guys have a twinge of good, and some of the good guys take a dark turn this season. The show continues to have a strong supporting cast including Michael Chiklis, Jamie Chung, Ivana Miličević, Cameron Monaghan, James Remar, Paul Reubens (playing a similar role to his cameo in Batman Returns), and Alexander Siddig. In the third season, the show pretty much transitions from the procedural-serial combination that it has been in the first couple of seasons to a straight serial with a bunch of longer story arcs that run throughout the season and intertwine here and there. The show makes good use of the large ensemble cast and makes a good decision to make Bruce just one of the characters as opposed to the main character, especially since David Mazouz is still relatively young and not exactly physically imposing. So, if you can accept the fact that it is not really a Batman series, but want to see origin stories for the various characters, this is definitely worth your time to watch.
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