It was great to have a Carol and Daryl-focused episode after the show kept them apart for so long; they really have a fantastic, intimate chemistry. Some of the show's dialogue is painfully repetitive at this point—take a drink every time someone talks about "who we were," "starting over," etc—but Carol and Daryl: art…

CORAL!

It depends on which origin story the show decides to use, since Batgirl-Barbara's adoption was only retconned in to cover Frank Miller's continuity problems. Given Bruce's age, Batgirl-Barbara would have to be an infant at the very least, and I'm not sure why they'd even include Barbara Keane at all (instead of, say,…

Wrong Barbara. This Barbara will probably stick around to give birth to Gordon's kids, but no way is she becoming Oracle.

Robin Lord Taylor's a handsome guy and seems pretty sweet when he's out of character, and some of that charm is just really infectious even when he's slicing people's throats on Gotham.

My guess is that Jim cheating on Barbara with his superior would be considered too much of a moral transgression for the "hero" of the show. Since Barbara walked out on him this episode, they're probably not even going to have him actually cheat on her—he'll be emotionally torn between Barbara and Leslie until Barbara…

Well, remember that in this town, "therapy" means Arkham Asylum or people like the hypnotherapist from "Spirit of the Goat" so the Wayne's were probably onto something.

Robin Lord Taylor is fucking amazing. There's not much more to say.

I don't know how you could have missed that, but it was like every scene with Gorman. He had been raping Joan for who knows how long, and repeatedly tried to coerce Beth (stopped only by Edwards and Zombie Joan). Dawn knew about it and did nothing. The entire system was built on exploiting the orderlies for manual…

Wasn't that more of the doctor's fear than something that was actually going to happen?

"How bad would it be to live in the hospital?"

From the preview it looks like next episode is all about Abraham's group so it probably will be stretched out.

I'm surprised the review didn't mention that was Academy Award-nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes wasted in a generic dead girl role. It reminded me a bit of how last season wasted Enver Gjokaj in a single episode.

I think I fall somewhere in the middle of these interpretations of Oswald. I think his obsession with Gordon is homoerotic (and more than just seeing Gordon as a "tool"—wait, that sounds even more homoerotic), but on the other hand I could believe Fish had a weird, dominating sexual thing with Oswald in the past too.…

Considering that he's famous for wearing neon green spandex covered in question marks, I thought the mug was subtle for Nygma. At least more subtle than the "STOP WITH THE RIDDLES, NYGMA" heavy-handedness of the pilot.

My guess is next week will be all about Beth immediately waking up after being kidnapped, and will be entirely about her. Then the week after will be about Daryl and Carol tacking her down. The show resolved Terminus so quickly I expect them to drag this one out quite a bit.

man, if we lose Carol to a freaking Beth subplot I'll be pissed.

It's weird that the "what happened to Beth" plotline is going to exclude Maggie entirely, but I think after watching her father's beheading and losing Beth after the prison, Maggie just quietly accepted that her sister was, if not necessarily dead, still "gone." If Daryl hadn't happened to have seen the car again, the…

Yeah. Some of the characters, like Nygma, are still thinly drawn, but its main players aren't without motivation. Why does Cobblepot want power? He has delusions of grandeur (probably gotten from his strange mother) and believes he's meant for something bigger than the other mooks, dishwashers, and peons around him.…

That scene was definitely shot so it could be used dramatically in AMC commercials.