4/10/2023 0 Comments Tuck you up like a kipper![]() Max: I love that there are at least two grown-ass men who are answerable to a twelve-year-old boy on Gotham. Sarah: Alfred whipping around at Bruce’s “goodbye” thinking that maybe he had changed his mind was silly and so sweet. The Alfred/Bruce relationship is one of the most touching dynamics on the show, but then you have weird scenes like a twelve-year-old billionaire saying “you’re fired” to his legal guardian. Kayleigh: Okay, what is up with Thomas Wayne’s proto-Batcave? He had a cache weapons, a ton of flatscreen computers, and, wait, blood bags in a refrigerator? The hell? At this point I don’t blame Alfred for being like “OY FUCK THIS” and just smashing shit with a hammer. ALFRED LOSES HIS HIS SHIT AND BEATS UP A COMPUTER I love that they cut out the middleman and just had him get kidnapped offscreen. I mean, he’s still a schlubby loser, but this time he’s like a super corrupt, vaguely competent one. Max: The madcap insanity of Gotham makes you forget that this show regularly features Richard Kind in a rare straight man role. At least they gave her a toy to play with. Sarah: For a second I thought our dear Barbara was yet again going to be sitting on her ass in a luxurious apartment. Though the scene with Barbara and Tabitha chasing and whipping the Mayor felt like a very personal glimpse into a writer’s head I was never meant to see. Here’s Richard Kind with his head in a box, being threatened with imaginary tarantulas, no you don’t get little pool floaties, you’re a big boy, deal with it. Kayleigh: I love how Gotham immediately throws us headfirst into the deep end of the pool in its opening scene. RICHARD KIND, THE MAYOR OF GOTHAM, HAS HIS HEAD IN A BIG BOX AND HE’S GETTING TORTURED, WHICH IS ALSO DOPE The Maniax is already down, what, two or three members? I wonder if the show will even utter that team name ever again. Sarah: One thing you’ve got to love about Gotham is how insane and extremely short-lived some of its plotlines are. They also kill off a third of the team in this episode, dunno what the gameplan is here. I LIVE for Galavan Kim Fowleying The Maniax to their full potential in his huge penthouse, sucking on his teeth when “definitely The Joker maybe” Jerome does super-villain hypeman schtick. Max: The Maniax is a classic Gotham conceit because it’s so stupid that it totally works in the context of the show. At the risk of getting shot for stealing Jerome’s line, laughter is contagious. The Maniax seem to be tying into one of the best episodes of last season, “Red Hood,” where masked supervillainy is a kind of virus or mass hysteria infecting people in Gotham. Kayleigh: Theo and the Maniax in a very strange adaptation of Pygmalion. Max: Does that make James Frain’s Theo Galavan their Judge Doom? Could you imagine what it would have been like for Jim to interrogate him? Sarah: I’m bummed that the weasel guy was killed off so soon. Kayleigh: Shoutout to that one Maniax who is just the straightjacket weasel from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in human form. ALL OF THE BAD GUYS THAT GOT BUSTED OUT OF ARKHAM ARE IN A SUPER-VILLAIN GANG CALLED “THE MANIAX,” WHICH IS DOPE Max: Gotham Season 2 continues to claw its way deeper into our hearts with a second episode that feels like it should’ve been an eighth episode. For every episode this season, Deadshirt’s own Sarah Register, Kayleigh Hearn and Max Robinson discuss the good, the bad.the beginning? of little Bruce Wayne, skinny Oswald Cobblepot, and Jim Gordon sans ‘stache as they try to find their way in the misery-soaked, work-a-day world of… GOTHAM. Fox’s “Batman-without-Batman” soap opera is the most amazingly weird show on television.
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