Gotham Season 3 Episode 4 Review

Episode 4 was another fun episode but there were some weird moments as well.

Barbara was hilarious as usual and her scenes are always made better by Jim's reactions to her. He was suicidal all throughout this episode and it turns out this was because of his pain with seeing Lee with another man. He ended up being able to push past this pain in the end and break the control the Mad Hatter had over him. I still think that he and Lee will be back together by midseason or so.

Speaking of the Mad Hatter, it seems the show decided that he wasn't creepy enough and decided to go with the highly cliche incest angle. Of course he was into his sister. But despite this, it was really really creepy when the Hatter and Alice had scenes together and props to the actors for that. In this time, incest is such an overplayed theme that sometimes it falls flat of where it needs to be. Again I am thrilled that the Hatter has not been killed or captured yet cause that means he can come back again.

Penguin is mayor as if there was any doubt! The best part of this was how Riddler and Butch were vying for Penguin's attention and affection. It was hilarious seeing Nygma jealous of Butch and Butch jealous of Nygma. Penguin and Nygma's relationship is starting to move from bromance to straight up romance and I wonder if that's an acting choice or something I'm just seeing that isn't there.

Fake-Bruce ran around with Selina longer than I expected but like I thought eventually my girl figured out he wasn't really Bruce although she was finding suspicious things throughout most of the episode. Fake-Bruce kissed her and it was weird because Selina didn't react like at all. She just stared at him expressionless. The end was funny when Bruce tried to girl-talk with Alfred and Alfred was having none of it. Bruce's smile at the thought that Selina kissed Fake-Bruce because she thought he was the Real-Bruce was the cutest thing and god I ship them so hard.

But like seriously, did anyone believe that whole Fake-Bruce is leaving Gotham and never coming back thing the show was trying to sell? Nothing has happened with Fake-Bruce yet so he couldn't leave without stirring shit up. And on top of that why would the show go through the trouble of a Fake-Bruce if they weren't going to add maximum drama?

Anyway I enjoyed this episode and I'll see you tomorrow for Flash and Agents of SHIELD!!!

xoxo Allie