Early Reviews

[MarkHB]

Reviews are starting to pop out for the show.

 

The Hollywood Reporter

Only a person inept at grasping the concept would watch Gotham and complain about it not being a true Batman series. Gotham’s success is not in distracting viewers from what’s not there — which is what Agents of SHIELD does with its better episodes — but in creating a nascent world where familiar figures of yore are introduced. The pilot makes that world compelling. The writing and the actors make that world unique, a series unto itself, not a Batman series that doesn’t have Batman in it.

 

Batman-News.com

Gotham City is almost a character itself. Not since Tim Burton’s Batman movies has the city looked so dark and gothic. Gotham is shot on location in New York City, the city that Gotham was based on in the comics, which really helps with the gritty storytelling. Gothic Gargoyles, buildings, and smokey alleys are added in with CGI to make it the city feel like its own. They’re also trying to make the city feel “timeless”, it doesn’t take place in the present day. You’ll see cars from the 1970’s, but flip phones from the early 2000’s. It all works together well to make Gotham look and feel like the city from the comics.