S3E14

Mad City: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Gotham · 2017-01-30 · 44 min

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from 28 comments

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what happens

With Jerome on the loose with one target in mind, Bruce and Alfred's safety is compromised. Meanwhile, Gordon's uncle Frank pays him a visit, and Nygma and Penguin are forced to confront their issues face-to-face, with possible deadly consequences.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 28 comments — 18 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 18 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“Literal chills after the line between justice and vengeance talk.”
ElKangri▲ 118about 80–90% inread it ↗
“I shed a hefty tear during that Alfred/Bruce "I will not kill" conversation. I can't believe I just witnessed the birth of one of Batman's core philosophies.”
sooshihana▲ 89about 75–100% inread it ↗
“the scene where Bruce is about to kill Jerome with the shard of glass and then looks in the mirror and sees himself with Joker-like make up and looking insane. I got fucking chills.”
katybee13▲ 87about 75–100% inread it ↗
“when Jerome told Bruce that "Gotham has no heroes" you can see the resolution in Bruce's face that he plans to make it his life's work to change that.”

who made it

directed: Louis Shaw Milito
written: Seth Boston

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Cameron Monaghan as Jerome Valeska
Leslie Hendrix as Kathryn
James Remar as Frank Gordon
Flora Diaz as Campos
JJoshua Everett Johnson as Security Guard
RRafael Benoit as Acolyte
David Chen as Acolyte

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