'Gotham' season 2 news, cast, spoilers: The perfect mix of light and dark for this season
The season premiere of "Gotham" certainly built up the excitement. With the introduction of James Frain as Theo Galavan, it seems that Gotham is facing a new kind of villain unlike before. Theo's plan to use Arkham inmates to unleash hell after he broke them out, with extreme sociopaths such as Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan) and Barbara Kean (Erin Richards), Jim Gordon's ex-fiancee, can mean more deaths than anyone could have thought.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Bruno Heller shared what Theo Galavan's entrance would mean to the show. The darkness of his character, alongside the insanity of the people he has unleashed, will change the vibe of the show for the better as it aims to imply endless possibilities, treading the fine line between dark and light story lines.
He reveals, "The combination of lightness and darkness is particular hard to hit, but it's where these stories have to live — the combination of grand Guignol horror and comedy." Heller also shared the name of the new group that will bring terror to gotham, called Maniax. "It'd be wrong to turn Gotham into an exclusively comic world, or an exclusively horrific world. It's that place where both exist, where you can switch from outrageous comedy to outrageous scariness, that's where this show lives. The fact that Batman can both be Adam West and Christian Bale is the essence of what the character is about. Like all mythological characters, he contains a multitude of worlds."
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Furthermore, one of the biggest changes that surprised viewers in the premiere was the change in Barbara Kean, who was sporting an attitude completely opposite her reserved demeanor in the first season. Heller said that despite the personality reversal, he is still confident in Barbara's character. "I think people are going to love her transformation, partly because the seeds were always there, even in the first episodes of the show." He also revealed that this is just the start of drastic transformations as this is what the show is all about.
Season 2 of Gotham airs every Monday on Fox.
