The 22-episode fourth season of Gotham is the second to last season of the show and aired during the 2017-2018 season. It picks up some time down the line from the events that ended the last season, with the effects of the Tetch virus still affecting the city. This season has several different serial arcs going on as the show has mostly done away with the bad-guy-of-the-week procedural format combined with the serial arcs that the first couple of seasons had. This season, the writers jump between the different arcs. The plot lines are mostly kept separate, occasionally intertwining during the season and coming together at the end. This season is really focused on who will get control of the criminal underworld with Oswald/Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor), Lee (Morena Baccarin), who has taken over The Narrows with the help of Nygma/Riddler (Cory Michael Smith), and Barbara (Erin Richards) all battling for control. At the same time, Gordon (Ben Mackenzie) tries to keep the city together. In the middle of the season, there is a multi-episode arc involving the serial killer Professor Pyg, and toward the end of the season, Jerome (Cameron Monaghan, who the show is still teasing as maybe he is or maybe he is not The Joker) returns to cause even more mayhem. Bruce (David Mazouz) continues to have to deal with Ra's al Guhl (played by Alexander Siddig) while getting closer to taking up the mantle as the protector of Gotham.
The Blu-Ray set is a four-disc set. The A/V quality is the same as it was for the prior season releases and for other DC shows such as Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, etc. The extras are definitely scaled back from prior season releases, but there are a few featurettes specific to the show, including a "new" villain who appears this season, a featurette on The Sirens (basically all of the female villains on the show), deleted scenes, and The Best of DC TV's 2017 at Comic-Con, which the same featurette that was included on the other DC show season releases that year.
The show continues to be good this season, and at times it is very good. The writers are definitely trying to pack all the bad guys they can into the show and give as many as possible origin stories for the various characters. It is still hard to buy that David Mazouz will eventually turn into Batman because, while he has gotten taller throughout the four seasons of the show, he is still not to the point where he has grown into his body and started putting on muscle. So he just looks like a taller, skinny kid. This is fine when they have him honing his detective skills, but it is not all that believable when he is fighting off a bunch of bad guys. The season ends on somewhat of a cliffhanger that will definitely set up the storyline for the final season. Ultimately, if you liked the first three seasons, then you will probably like this one. If not, then this is probably not going to change your mind about the show.
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