What . What ? What .

Gotham , god bless it , is barrelling its elbow room to its net conclusion with all the grace and subtlety of a runaway gearing that happens to be packed with explosive and also is on fire .

Last week , the show gave us ourfirst lilliputian glimpseof lil ’ Brucie Wayne ( if not actuallyDavid Mazouz himself ) all done up in , at long last , Gotham ’s approximation of the Batman cowling . But what ’s a Dark Knight without a Clown Prince to furrow ? So enter Jerome . Well , participate Jeremiah . It’sa prospicient floor , but it ’s finally go in its finish with this : the reveal of J.

Ouch.

Ouch.Image: (Fox)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RVZSYjsMuw

The J stand for Joker , obviously . But that should be the most ancillary of your concerns , because , what the nooky .

We knew Jeremiah was all mess up by that acid - bath magnetic inclination , but practiced lord this edition of the Joker is truly nightmare - inducing . While there are obvious inspirations from Jokers past , both hold up action and comic Bible , the contrast of the gleefully brilliant one-sided getup with Jeremiah ’s back breaker - pocked expression and scarce - there - hair is just … honestly petrifying ? And that ’s before he ’s range around with a batarang in his hand . Check out the full promo video below :

Photo: Fox

Oh Jeremiah, what lovely eyes you have.Photo: Fox

Jesus .

Gotham run full bat when it returns for its terminal episodes   on April 18 and April 25 .

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