Season 1 of this show was fantastic television. Sure, it had its issues, but for the most part I found it to be an intense, gripping show. Penguin was fantastic, as was Falcone and all the stuff relating to the mob. However, once season 2 came around the show just went overboard with villains. But worse than going overboard with villains was the fact that most of the villains weren't very good. Jerome as a joker like character was excellent while he lasted, but even he suffered from the poorly written plot. After season 1, the show lost all sense of danger. The characters are never actually in trouble. In the first season it really did feel tense, it felt like characters were in trouble. But after seeing the GCPD be taken over for the fourth time in x amount of episodes in later seasons, all sense of danger just vanishes. How many times can Penguin or Riddler have one another held hostage only for them to escape? It really is nonsense. The supernatural/magic stuff in the series really doesn't work well either. I think it could work, but it's just poorly implemented.

I think the show suffers from short sightedness. There doesn't seem to be any stretching plot to most of it other than Bruce Wayne being on course to become Batman (which is actually one of the worst parts of the show). It also often feels like certain plot points are dragged on for far longer than is necessary - probably to fill all 22 episodes of each season. I really think that the show would be much better if the seasons were shortened to around 13 episodes. I'm confident that by cutting down on the number of total episodes that the creators could fill those 13 episodes with good content, rather than having to stretch any good content they come up with out over 22 episodes.