Showing posts with label Gotham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gotham. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The 2014-15 TV Genre TV season so far...

One of the few downsides of spending every October focusing on a specific aspect of the horror genre is that it diverts my attention from other places - various games, books, movies and television series all have to wait until I have the time to see a few episodes and give my first impressions.

This year has actually been pretty fun overall, The Flash has been a surprisingly fun superhero story that keeps me coming back every week, Gotham, although flowed with a similar premise to Smallville (let's make a superhero show that we promise will never, ever have a superhero in it - except for maybe in the series finale), has been fun to watch and putting the focus on Jim Gordon has made for a pretty compelling story overall.

I'm a little on the fence still about Constantine - as a long time Hellblazer fan myself, and still feeling a little burned by the 2005 feature film adaption (which would have been a fine film if they just hadn't demanded we view it as a Hellblazer film), the series (which has just been limited to a 13-episode run) does some pretty neat things, in tone it's pretty much on the mark, but a bit too heavy on letting John use overt magic, but as I've found most of the episodes to be pretty fun, I think I'll stick out the run as is.

What has surprised me the most this year is ABCs Forever, a crime procedural which focuses on an immortal man which merges a standard murder-mystery with fantasy elements.  If you haven't checked it out yet, it is well worth the watch.

Monday, May 5, 2014

So I know what I'm doing this fall...



One of my favourite parts of the current television season coming to an end is the adverts for upcoming shows starting this fall.

Lets take for example Gotham (airing on Fox) - a prequel series to Batman which focuses on young detective Jim Gordon and his early days as a cop in Gotham City.

Although I will happily admit to being a long-time Batman fan, one of my favourite series is Gotham Central, which focused on the police in Gotham City and how exactly they would interact with the Batman and all of his terrifying enemies - it took something most people were quite familiar with and looked at it through another lens (also if you haven't read Gotham Central - go do that now).

I'm sure there will be a lot more stuff coming out this fall that will peak my genre-loving interests, but I've got to say that right now, I'm pretty darn excited to see what Gotham is going to be doing this fall.