'…and threatening to kill a suspect right in front of his lawyer. As much as people gossip in Gotham City, that reputation as a "good guy" wouldn't hold up.'

Wow, how have I not read this comic yet? It sounds amazing! Better (dare I say it?) than the way Dent's transformation was handled in The Long Halloween (which seems to have ripped off the acid-throwing scene straight from this comic, by the way).

"Seriously, Bruce needs to turn in his "world's greatest detective" badge after that story given how flaming obvious it is that Selina is Catwoman."

"Showing Dent as already having an angry, violent second personality? No, not until the acid. "

Yeah, I wondered that too. Also, stupid: the security guards who didn't bother to screen an anonymous gift basket. You'd think working at a munitions factory would have taught them to be suspicious of everything that came in.

Really? I predicted it the moment they showed Barbara on the bed, covered only in sheets.

No, the time period has deliberately been left ambiguous. Although, speaking of the 80s, the show does seem like a throwback to TV shows from that decade, in that it never makes any attempt to have us believe that it's set in our world. The 80s saw the last generation of self-contained TV shows before The Simpsons…

Well, you're operating on the assumption that he's not supposed to know Selina's Catwoman in the future, because that's how it is in the comic book canon. Why do people keep forgetting that this TV series is essentially an Elseworld's version of the DC universe?

This review was more of a recap. Granted, there wasn't much to review, given that this episode pretty much stuck to the weekly formula its established so far; but still, AV Club, at least give us some insights!

Actually, Sonia Saraiya and Joe Reid would beg to differ:

Argh, I cannot believe there's no episode this week. Why, CW, why?

Pretty much. Although, if it helps, even the characters acknowledged what a lame super-villain name "The Mist" was.

I'll have to go back and watch the episode to confirm this, but I think Gordon's head was blocking the shot, so Bullock had no way of knowing whether the bullet actually penetrated Penguin's skull.

Fun fact: the guy playing Zsasz, Anthony Carrigan, also appeared as a villain on The Flash over on CW recently. He was that show's villain of the week: Kyle Nimbus (aka "The Mist").

Enjoyed this episode. I'm glad they abandoned the new-villain-per-week structure this week, because it would have been enormously distracting in the midst of all the mob drama.

Exactly. Personally, I think that's OK. It's not like Gotham is particularly faithful to the canon anyway.

I agree with Oliver: this was the best episode of the series so far, although that's not saying much. I'm glad we finally got some back story on Bullock, but I wish they had devoted more time to it by removing all the Bruce/Selina and Nygma scenes, which were just pointless (where does the show think it's going with…

I don't know about asexual. The scene where his mother is bathing him was definitely hinting at something. Did you notice the way she told him he should trust no one but his mother and then gave him this lingering look? There are definitely some Oedipal issues at play here.

Like Tobias Funke?

Mildly disappointing episode. The reviewer's right: the show does look like it's heading towards becoming stuck in some sort of rut: the stock villain of the week, Barry's self-doubt, another inspiring speech from a father figure. The Iris-Eddie romance advanced a few steps, but it still looks like it's heading…