Ranking Every Superhero TV Show From Worst To Best

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9. Gotham

Taking a leaf out of the Smallville playbook, Gotham promised to give us a Batman series without Batman. Instead, the focus would be on Jim Gordon, while it would slowly start to sow the seeds for the transformation of young Bruce Wayne into Bats.

The end product was part comic book show, part crime procedural, and while it may not have had Batman, it's certainly been batsh*t crazy.

It's an element it's increasingly leaned into, which it deserves some credit for I guess, and it has made a couple of excellent casting choices: Donal Logue is wonderfully gruff as Harvey Bullock, and Robin Lord Taylor an inspired take on the Penguin.

However, the craziness can't compensate for the show's numerous flaws. The lead character is perhaps the most dull on the show, and also pretty unlikable, the plots boring, there's an insane number of villains, and the dialogue is awfully written. Sure, the show has its fans, partly in a 'so bad it's good' kinda way, but mostly it's just bad.

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Gotham's fatal flaw was always the notion that if Jim Gordon and the GCPD can handle all these supervillians what reason is there for a Batman? To put things into perspective, Batman does what he does to scare criminals but a new breed of criminal is inspired by his theatricality after he makes his debut. Essentially, it all boils to down to escalation. But here, he looks tame in comparison to some of these people.