Gotham arrived in 2014 with a ballsy premise: tell the story of how DC Comics' most famous city became a place that needed, and perhaps deserved, the Batman.*
In the course of setting up the presumably series-ending bat-reveal, the show has tossed in almost too many proto-versions of famous villains, future allies, and other comic book personalities. But smack in the middle of its ever-spooling web of Mad Hatters, Riddlers, Lucius Foxes, and Ivys was Butch Gilzean, an original creation of showrunners Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon.* Read more...