After the big twists in last week’s episode, several of our villains in this week’s Gotham take many different turns, as the Penguin suffers a huge lost, Edward Nygma becomes one with the other person in his mind, and Theo Galavan’s true colors starts to surface. Additionally, Silver St. Cloud gets Bruce wrapped all around that evil finger of hers.
I’ve never felt so sorry for Selina as I did in this week’s Gotham, where I enjoyed her character from start to finish. I don’t know what I loved more: her giving the biggest shade ever to Alfred who you might remember as that temporary child abuser a few weeks ago (although I wish the future detective in the room would have caught on to it somehow), or seeing Silver pulling a total 180 and being this villainous witch who goes all psycho on Selina, who doesn’t put up with it (man, that was intense).
Sadly, because flaws always follow the writing on Gotham, the later scene where Selina confronts Silver in front of Bruce ends up as a horrible mess, only because the writers couldn’t have their character say “Oh by the way Bruce, while you weere in the kitchen before, blondie over there threatened to have me killed if I ever come to see you again. Thought you should know.” God forbid for logic to be used on Gotham when needed as Selina is instead portrayed as a sassy jealous girlfriend where she ends up looking like the bad one. Don’t get me wrong, Selina is all sorts of sass, but the way she was written this week in that scene was just the wrong kind. I’m not saying that Bruce would have necessarily believed Selina if she had explained everything; however, there would have at least been a 50/50 shot. Because Selina phrased things the way she did, Silver fakes that she is upset and leaves, while Bruce lashes out at Selina. Stupid teen hormones, Bruce; that’s all I’m going to say.
Cory Michael Smith steals the show this week, as Nygma riddles himself into a hot stage where he gives in and becomes one with the crazy. While I do still find the death of Ms. Kringle premature and sad, this is the final nail in the coffin that we needed for Nygma, because we are now entering a brand new chapter where he has given into his darker, insane side. I’m excited to see what Smith does with this character in the coming episodes, because this new development made Season 2 get a whole lot more interesting for me.
Then there is the whole blood bath that is Penguin, who goes after Theo with Butch now free from Zsasz’s mind-control, and dear Mama Oswald getting murdered by Tabitha because screw having a female villain that has some good development to her when you can just have a good-looking killing machine with nothing else to add. Robin Lord Taylor kills it with his devastation and anger later in the episode, to the point where I had no idea how any of this was going to play out. The best scene in the whole hour was, without a doubt, the Penguin invasion at the big party, where Oswald cleverly has his entire squad dressed up as him in order to fool the GCPD. I can only imagine how much fun that must have been for the extras to get to dress up as the Penguin, although the sight of all the dead bodies made the whole thing also pretty gruesome.
While Penguin fails in killing Theo, Gordon has now figured out who Theo really is and what he is up to and, thereby, gets himself one dangerous opponent. All I will say on this is that these remaining episodes of the first half will be something to keep close eyes on, because things are about to heat up big time. “Mommy’s Little Helper” was another solid episode of Gotham that was, yet again, plagued by some major writing flaws.
Gotham airs Mondays at 8/7c on FOX.
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