Netflix-o-rama

[cmdrsuzdal]

There is so much genre television right now that it's hard to remember how sparse the landscape once was not all that long ago. And how it seemed like you could only really have one subgenre at a time, horror or science fiction for example, but not usually both. Now there's plenty to chose from, ranging in style, flavor, and quality. No longer do

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[randy_byers]

Totally agreed about Gotham. I gave up on it toward the end of the first season, because I got tired of the "one honest man against a corrupt system" storyline and then I actually got tired of the grotesquerie too. I watched about five minutes of the first episode of the second season and bounced off it hard. But I did really like the first half of the first season, partly because I loved the pre-history of the villains aspect.

[cmdrsuzdal]

Yeah, it's a hard balance to maintain. You need the "resolve in the midst of corruption" story as the base but you don't want to risk making Gordon's story the central one. But once they drifted away from Penguin and the mob families it got messy and introduced too many threads I just didn't find compelling.

I wonder if the problem was just too much too soon? I'll have to see what I think of season 2.