Mainly, the show fuels the perception that despite the character’s durability, it’s possible to dip into the Batcave once too often. “Gotham Knights” is watchable for committed fans of the genre or DC completists, but it mostly feels like another test of the franchise’s coattails (or cape tails). Plus, if you have questions about all the unaccounted-for parents in the show, get in line.

The atmosphere certainly oozes the dark vision of a corrupt, dystopian Gotham that we’ve come to know, but it loses a lot by wedding that to a “Gossip Girl” (pick your version) sensibility. The ill-tempered daughter of the Joker, Duela (Olivia Rose Keegan), also gets pulled into this de facto Scooby team, along with a sibling pair of accomplished thieves, Harper (Fallon Smythe) and Cullen Row (Tyler DiChiara).Ĭircumstances turn them all into fugitives, and there’s plenty of squabbling and bickering among them, with Duela teasingly referring to Turner as “Bat-brat.” As for the serialized mystery, the main thread involves the shadowy criminal enterprise known as the Court of Owls, whose nefarious doings make the teen contingent seem to be in way over their heads. Still, Turner wasn’t really brought into the family’s bat-business, with one of his school classmates, Carrie Kelley (Navia Robinson), having acted as Batman’s sidekick Robin. Joining a long list of productions peripherally connected to the Caped Crusader ( “Gotham,” “Titans,” “Pennyworth” and “Batwoman” among them), “Gotham Knights” begins with the provocative premise that Batman/Bruce Wayne has been murdered, leaving his adopted son, Turner Hayes (Oscar Morgan), to try to find out who’s responsible. Superman and Batman sounds like a pretty solid one-two punch, but the details of that combination somewhat undo the CW’s new Tuesday lineup, featuring the third season of “Superman & Lois” and a new Dark Knight-adjacent drama, “Gotham Knights.” Specifically, the former doesn’t fly as high this time out, while the latter plays too much like a “Riverdale” wannabe.

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