This is, hands down, in my top 5 favorite Gotham episodes, and It's no coincedence that one of my other favorite episodes is also directed by Ben Mckenzie.
I've had a love-hate (mostly love) relationship with this show. I really liked S1, I loved the 2nd half of S2, S3 is in my opinion (except for maybe the first arc) one of the best things to ever happen to tv. It had some really powerful moments (which I won't spoil here), but season 4 kind of lacked that gotham feeling for me. It wasn't like S1, but also not like S3, it was somewhere in between, and it didn't really connect to me. I didn't really like the Sofia or emo bruce arc (and both of them for waaay too long) and Ivy had/has (depending on what the showrunners are going to do with her arc for the rest of the season) really not interested yet. Then last episode finally finished off Sophia.
Then this episode comes along and is way better than it deserves to be. It has everything, an interesting setup with the prison break, Jerome's plan and I even think I might be able to like Barbara again, because this episode sets up the LEAGUE OF SHADOWS, kinda like S3, but with less court of owls. It also had a great emotional moment between Jim and Harvey, which was greatly amplified by the score, Oh My God the music in this episode (and the whole series actually) is absolutely amazing. I could literally watch Gotham for the score alone. It does bug me a little that everything is moving so fast, but that is because itisn't sure if Gotham will be renewed for a 5th season, so that's completely understandable. I'm also kind of disappointed we didn't get to see Penguin or Riddler this episode.
Overall an amazing episode with some really strong acting and directing
I've had a love-hate (mostly love) relationship with this show. I really liked S1, I loved the 2nd half of S2, S3 is in my opinion (except for maybe the first arc) one of the best things to ever happen to tv. It had some really powerful moments (which I won't spoil here), but season 4 kind of lacked that gotham feeling for me. It wasn't like S1, but also not like S3, it was somewhere in between, and it didn't really connect to me. I didn't really like the Sofia or emo bruce arc (and both of them for waaay too long) and Ivy had/has (depending on what the showrunners are going to do with her arc for the rest of the season) really not interested yet. Then last episode finally finished off Sophia.
Then this episode comes along and is way better than it deserves to be. It has everything, an interesting setup with the prison break, Jerome's plan and I even think I might be able to like Barbara again, because this episode sets up the LEAGUE OF SHADOWS, kinda like S3, but with less court of owls. It also had a great emotional moment between Jim and Harvey, which was greatly amplified by the score, Oh My God the music in this episode (and the whole series actually) is absolutely amazing. I could literally watch Gotham for the score alone. It does bug me a little that everything is moving so fast, but that is because itisn't sure if Gotham will be renewed for a 5th season, so that's completely understandable. I'm also kind of disappointed we didn't get to see Penguin or Riddler this episode.
Overall an amazing episode with some really strong acting and directing