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Gotham - Season 1 Episode 07: Penguin's Umbrella
Gotham is the origin story of the great DC Comics Super-Villains and vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told. James Gordon and Harvey Bullock are assigned to track down the killer of Thomas and Martha Wayne. The story behind Commissioner James Gordon';;;;;s rise to prominence in Gotham City in the years before Batman';;;;;s arrival. Along the way, Gordon becomes involved with Gotham';;;;;s Mafia families and associates including gangster Fish Mooney, Don Carmine Falcone, and Italian mob boss Salvatore Maroni. Eventually, Gordon is forced to form an unlikely friendship with Bruce, one that will help shape the boy';;;;;s future in becoming the Batman.
26 June 1953, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 October 1971, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
December 30, 2014
While tonight's episode may not live up to its explosive title, it once again shows that Gotham can craft an intriguing and compelling hour of television when it slows down its pace and focuses on juggling just a few characters and storylines at a time.
December 30, 2014
Gotham has become the show Batman fans wanted it to be. While the series has improved greatly since the pilot episode, it's also been searching for a rhythm. "Penguin's Umbrella" changed things up and became easily the strongest episode of the series yet.
December 30, 2014
"Penguin's Umbrella" is in some ways pretty frustrating because it shows how great this show can really be.
December 30, 2014
It takes a bit of a nose dive as some of the show's dullest half-baked characters bogarted the spotlight for one very undercooked hour -- an installment that stepped outside the Murder of the Week format for the first time yet fell flat on its face.
December 30, 2014
Robin Lord Taylor, who plays Cobblepot, has arguably been the MVP of the series so far -- no small feat with this cast -- so it's no coincidence that the show delivers when he's in the spotlight.
December 30, 2014
After some of the laziest writing I've ever seen not only on this show but any show ever, Gotham had its best episode so far this season.
December 30, 2014
Everything we thought we knew about so many of Gotham's established characters has been thrown out the window. In short: MONTOYA AND ALLEN ARE AWESOME.
December 30, 2014
Despite some negligible problems, this week's Gotham delivered what every other episode has tried and failed to deliver: a serialized neo-noir with Godfather-size scope that also happens to be set in Batman's world.
December 30, 2014
A pretty solid, ultra-serialized episode this week. An installment that felt like a bit of a dangerous game-changer for Gordon -- a sort of "point of no return" for a character who was seemingly all alone in his crusade to end Gotham's corruption.
December 30, 2014
The moment we've all been waiting for: an episode of Gotham where not only did Detective James Gordon avoid being the least captivating character in Gotham's menagerie of crooks and carnival freaks, he might have actually been the most captivating.
