Bard Investigations - Episode 1x02 - Alice

Well, this was… interesting, to say the least. This entire episode was great and quite frankly, was better than the pilot in my opinion. But why was it, is the question? The mystery did it for me, to put things simply.

The fact that Tetch was obsessed with Alice in Wonderland was an amazing idea. It’s a fairly new movie, so most people should be somewhat familiar with it. In fact, I just saw it yesterday, no lie. But that wasn’t the center of things. Tetch’s issues were well described and well written. His rhyming was hysterical for me. No matter how creepy it was supposed to be, I still laughed my ass off.

I really enjoyed our introduction to a few other detectives around Gotham. While Jason was still the savior, it’ll be interesting to see if any of the other detectives will give him a run for his money anytime soon.

I also really like where things are going with the murder of Bullock. I liked seeing Jason juggle the two mysteries. He had to both help a friend, but also help Batman, in this episode. I think that Jason doing both was very well balanced. While most of the action was seen with finding Alice, we got a bunch of information concerning Bullock’s murder that is very important.

I can see that a big mystery of the season, or at least the next few episodes, will be figuring out who killed Bullock. Jason’s very intrigued by the murder and definitely wants to figure things out. But, with nothing being found on the body or the crime scene, things were made only tougher for him. I’m interested to see what kind of leads that he’ll get that will help him solve the case.

Now, the one bad thing I found with this episode is that yet again, we don’t see much of Renee. I understand that she is stuck in the hospital right now, but I really think that we could have seen more of her over these first two episodes.

The music cues, wow, the music cues. I just had to point out that I loved them all. It’s very tough to find good songs to fit and add to different scenes, but the ones that were chosen were amazing, and in my opinion, perfect.

So now for the big question – Is Bard really good, or was the pilot a fluke? I say, as of right now, Bard Investigations is my new guilty pleasure!!! The second episode was better than the pilot, in my opinion. However, this statement was only true due to the great criminal that we saw in this episode. If Bard continues to have the intriguing guest characters or mysteries from week to week, then things will be great. But, if Bard suddenly loses its uniqueness and intriguing material, then I’ll have to take that ‘guilty pleasure’ statement back. But nonetheless – So far, so good!

Jimbo’s Next Theory
I think that a random criminal investigation will give a lead to the Bullock murder. But whether I’m right or not, it’ll be cool to see how Jason will get a lead in the case.