Gotham: A Bitter Pill to Swallow

November 16, 2015 7:39 PM - Season 2, Episode 9

Penguin and Riddler, best of friends. Singing together, killing a lot. Beeeest friiiiends foreeeeever. Also, rockabilly & Portland flavor hipster assassin, Jim Gordon learns an important lesson, Bruce Broods Baroquely Before Becoming Batman.
posted by codacorolla (9 comments total)

Well, that was appropriately batshit. Nygma attempting to befriend Penguin was, indeed, pretty funny.

The stuff with Eduardo Flamingo at the end was depressing though - reminded me entirely too much of The Walking Dead's 'kindness is for suckers' theme.
posted by mordax at 11:15 PM on November 16, 2015 [2 favorites]

Man, the body count in this show...

Nice to see Missy getting work after that mess on Skaro.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:02 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

Nice to see Missy getting work after that mess on Skaro.

I am always happy to see her in stuff, yeah.
posted by mordax at 11:28 AM on November 17, 2015

Crazy (and sad) that it's Nygma who gets Penguin give up the last shred of his humanity.

Poor Penguin. Dude just needed a hug.
posted by leotrotsky at 5:38 PM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

Nygma's rant to Penguin about being truly free when you have nobody to love is epic and you can almost see Nygma grow three inches as he's delivering it, while Penguin holds a blade at his throat Nygma cares not a whit about. This is truly the moment Nygma becomes the Riddler.

It is also amusing how casually Penguin tosses off Nygma's riddle -- "A memory, so what?" He is neither challenged nor impressed by it as everyone else has been by his riddles.
posted by Bringer Tom at 7:44 PM on November 17, 2015 [3 favorites]

I thought it was interesting to see Penguin alone with someone he had no reason to fear or manipulate. He used neither the twitchy/unhinged schtick nor the opposite but tonally similar fake-deferential/pathetic schtick. He just sounded like he was talking to some asshole.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:26 PM on November 18, 2015

It was also great to see Alfred develop a bit more resolve on the guardian/mentor front.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:29 PM on November 18, 2015

ok, so in the scene where Penguin has the knife at Ed's throat, there were a few good shots of a rather well-lit pineapple on a scale in the background. Is there something going on with that?
posted by ArgentCorvid at 8:03 PM on November 30, 2015

ok, so in the scene where Penguin has the knife at Ed's throat, there were a few good shots of a rather well-lit pineapple on a scale in the background. Is there something going on with that?

It has to do with how Nygma met Oswald's mother.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:06 AM on December 1, 2015 [1 favorite]