Sometimes, a bit of a break from a television series could do you some good. After all, your initial audience have blinked a couple of time and refreshed their eyes. You’re writers have shaken their wrists and come up with some new ideas. Your actors are all chilled out (I gather this was probably all filmed before the holidays but you get the sentiment). Generally, picking up where you left off has its merits. Gotham had a whole month to put its gigantic plot hammer down and start delicately weaving background, exposition and really enhance its characters that, in case you missed it, were soon to be Batman characters.
Instead, with it picked up an even bigger hammer and went smash, smash, smash on audiences head.
The entire series is just so vacant and lacking off an almighty punch that would make it brilliant. Gordon, instead of becoming the lowly cop of justice is now the lowly security guard of justice whose boss hates him, repeatedly. With the mob crime still going on elsewhere, it has just gone back into an irritating pattern that is rather dull. Rather than caring about the development, you end up just zoning out – placing the show in the background while you do better things like count how many patterns are on the ceiling. It also picks up and drops whatever it wants in order to create some sort of drama, making little to no sense. You don’t want Jim Gordon’s wife Barbara to be a lesbian anymore because you remembered that she and Gordon wind up together in the end? Make her and her lover Reenee Montoya suddenly break up as though they were merely providing titillation for some sweaty group of the audience
And the further this, the plot was so predictable that you can’t help but scoff at its lame attempts to be Hannibal or American Horror Story (which it has a hefty dose of both).
On a final note, Gotham is tedium in a bat-mask. It’s the same thing repeatedly. And it’s not good. Imagine you were eating crackers daily, and you’ll get close to the level of awfulness that Gotham is. An unbuttered, bland television show that doesn’t even have the good sense to add a little bit of cheese to make it taste better.