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Gotham - Season 3 Episode 15: Mad City: How the Riddler Got His Name
Season 3 opens with Gordon working in a monster-ridden Gotham as a bounty hunter and seeking to find answers about the Indian Hill escapees and why their powers appear to be killing them. Bruce's doppelganger roams the streets and Barbara and Tabitha open a nightclub called The Sirens.
14 February 1982, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
May 30, 1975
14 October 1963, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
1977, McAllen, Texas, USA
9 September 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 August 1992, Gainesville, Florida, USA
26 April 1974, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
April 25, 2017
An episode that continued building the mental madness that Season 3 has so far delivered, tonight's installment also dropped some big twists and badass sequences that seem to be leading fans down a particular Bat-avenue.
April 25, 2017
Nygma spends the episode transforming into The Riddler. The problem? The whole idea of the transformation is treated like a joke, as if Nygma can never really become a villain because he's going about it the wrong way and for the wrong reasons.
April 25, 2017
The irony of it all is that just as [Nygma] begins to ascertain that he doesn't need some grand archnemesis or best friend to become a true villain, he may have just gained an amalgamation of the two anyway.
April 25, 2017
Straight up, this episode as a whole is terribly paced ... But underneath the mess episode writer Megan Mostyn-Brown has a ton of genuinely clever fun with Eddie and Oswald's relationship.
April 25, 2017
Gotham returned, after its second long break this season, with a fun episode that delivered big on Edward Nygma's long-game transformation into The Riddler.
April 25, 2017
"How the Riddler Got His Name" was an occasionally zany, occasionally touching, and completely satisfying baptism of crazy that saw the final transition from tortured killer-nerd Ed Nygma (Cory Michael Smith) to The Riddler
April 25, 2017
Gotham hit it out of the park this hour not only by giving us The Riddler but also by setting up other exciting storylines to take us through the rest of the season.
April 25, 2017
In terms of plot, it was less successful than some of the other Riddler-centric episodes we've gotten in the past, but nothing matched its insight into Ed's motivations as we saw him struggle to come to terms with his identity.