Fox’s hit series, Gotham — a prequel to DC’s Batman — returns for its third season in just a little over a month. If you remember last season, we ended things with a bus, driven by Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) full of Dr. Hugo Strange’s (B.D. Wong) monsters and experiments having escaped Arkham Asylum to run amok on the streets. So how will Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and Detective Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) handle this brand new threat to the city? And just what monsters escaped?
Well, we have some answers that might help us figure some of that out as the synopsis for the new season of Gotham was released today. You can read it below.
GOTHAM (Mondays, 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) The origin story continues on Season Three of GOTHAM, and the stakes are higher than ever, as Super-Villains more ambitious and depraved are introduced, and a realignment of alliances shakes up the fight for power in Gotham City.
Season Three will peel back the curtain on the infamous criminal organization known as the Court of The Owls. With the Indian Hill escapees on the loose, JIM GORDON (Ben McKenzie) must take matters into his own hands as a bounty hunter in Gotham. He makes it his mission to find HUGO STRANGE (guest star BD Wong), the mastermind behind the horrifying Indian Hill experiments, and FISH MOONEY (guest star Jada Pinkett Smith), one of Strange’s subjects. Meanwhile, GCPD Detective HARVEY BULLOCK (Donal Logue) and Captain NATHANIEL BARNES (Michael Chiklis) remain at the forefront of the fight against crime in the monster-ridden city. Also, BRUCE WAYNE (David Mazouz), with the help of his trusted butler and mentor, ALFRED PENNYWORTH (Sean Pertwee), and former Wayne Enterprises employee, LUCIUS FOX (Chris Chalk), discovers there are still more secrets to uncover regarding his parents’ murders.
As the city sinks deeper into chaos, GOTHAM will continue to follow the evolving stories of the city’s most malevolent villains: THE PENGUIN (Robin Lord Taylor); EDWARD NYGMA/the future RIDDLER (Cory Michael Smith); SELINA KYLE/the future CATWOMAN (Camren Bicondova); BARBARA KEAN (Erin Richards), TABITHA GALAVAN/TIGRESS (Jessica Lucas) and BUTCH GILZEAN (Drew Powell). The series also will catch up with the future POISON IVY (Maggie Geha), who, after an encounter with a monster from Indian Hill, finds herself reborn as a young woman who’s harnessed the full power of her charms; and will dive into the origin stories of JERVIS TETCH/MAD HATTER (Benedict Samuel), a talented hypnotist teetering on the edge of madness; and the TWEED BROTHERS.
As you can see, Dr. Hugo Strange and Fish Mooney are still at large, Captain Barnes is still heading up the precinct, and Bruce Wayne is still very much on his way to becoming Batman. We’ve also got the Oswald Cobblepot, Edward Nygma and Selina Kyle still growing into their future villainous roles as the Penguin, the Riddler and Catwoman.
Added into this, however, we’ve got a new threat coming to town with the Mad Hatter bringing his hypnotism to Gotham. However, perhaps the biggest possible reveal here deals with Poison Ivy, no longer played by the young Clare Foley but instead with the older Maggie Geha.
The casting was announced earlier in the summer, so we knew that an older Ivy Pepper was coming to the series, but now we have an idea of how — one of Strange’s twisted creations accelerates her growth. Here is our first look at how our new Poison Ivy will look for the series. Brace yourselves — it’s very different.
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