Worst of the Year: Gotham
This wasn’t even a hard choice. I struggled with including or excluding certain shows from the Best Of list, to the point where I lazily lumped several Netflix shows together. But coming up with the worst show?
Oh man, talk about a dumb question. Gotham was campy, silly, frustrating, stupid, and most frustratingly, occasionally actually good. Episodes like “Red Hood” and “Everyone Has a Cobblepot” were genuinely great installments, which just made the near-constant missteps that much more glaring.
At times, the show was a cavalcade of unlikable, stupid characters. Selina Kyle is nowhere near as interesting as the show thinks she is, and the less said of the ersatz Joker the better. The bright spots – such as Sean Pertwee’s Alfred and David Mazouz’s Bruce Wayne – help to keep the show from being a complete disaster. But make no mistake, this show is mostly a disaster.
Worst episodes: “All Happy Families Are Alike,” “Scarification”