This team of mismatched fugitives must band together to become its next generation of saviors known as the GOTHAM KNIGHTS. But our Knights will soon learn there is a larger, more nefarious force at work within Gotham City. With the charismatic and hard-charging District Attorney Harvey Dent ( Misha Collins, "Supernatural") and the GCPD hot on their trail, Turner will rely on allies including his best friend and formidable coder Stephanie Brown ( Anna Lore, "All American"), and unlikely Batman sidekick Carrie Kelley ( Navia Robinson, "Raven's Home"). In the wake of Bruce Wayne's murder, his adopted son Turner Hayes ( Oscar Morgan, "De Son Vivant") is framed for killing the Caped Crusader, along with the children of some of Batman's enemies: Duela ( Olivia Rose Keegan, "Days of Our Lives"), an unpredictable fighter and skilled thief who was born in Arkham Asylum and abandoned by her father, Harper Row ( Fallon Smythe, "grown-ish"), a streetwise and acerbic engineer who can fix anything, and her brother Cullen Row ( Tyler DiChiara, "The Virgin of Highland Park"), a clever transgender teen who is tired of being polite and agreeable. ET on the CW.Batman is dead, and a powder keg has ignited Gotham City without the Dark Knight to protect it. “Superman & Lois” and “Gotham Knights” premiere March 14 at 8 p.m. It’s not exactly a bad combination, but rather the kind of team-up that feels less brave and bold than simply familiar and played out. Part of “Superman’s” mission will be to help launch “Gotham Knights,” while both face the more existential threat of the CW altering its programming profile – and its reliance on titles from DC (like CNN, a unit of Warner Bros.
Yet even making that allowance, “Superman & Lois” feels more sluggish, as if the producers are straining to pair up characters in unexpected but not particularly interesting ways, including the disposable subplots surrounding Lana Lang (Emmanuelle Chriqui), who is now aware of Clark’s secret, and her marital troubles.
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Obviously, the formula for these CW series hinges on playing up the soap-opera aspects (who knew sleepy little Smallville was such a hotbed of hormones?), because despite the impressive-for-TV special effects it’s not like they’re turning producer Greg Berlanti and his teams loose with a Zack Snyder-sized budget. The show also introduces a more grounded crisis for the Kents, Clark (Tyler Hoechlin) and Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch), along with their teenage sons, with Michael Bishop taking over the role of Jonathan (after Jordan Elsass chose to leave the show) and Alex Garfin returning as Jordan.
Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch face new challenges in season 3 of "Superman & Lois." Shane Harvey/THE CWĪs for ‘Superman & Lois,” what had been a bright spot for the CW starts its season slowly, with an uninspired serialized threat and a lot of emphasis on juggling relationships among the core cast. 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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