I'm not big on comic book heroes, but I did see at least one Batman film – the first I think and also many episodes of Batman and Robin the very campy and comedic television series.
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Anyhow Gotham (WIN, Sunday) is a telling of the Batman story from the start.
Bruce Wayne, who looks about 11, is walking along a dark road with his parents, when a man in a balaclava comes out of the shadows and asks them for money and jewellery.
This they hand over, but he then shoots both the Wayne parents and levels the gun at the Bruce, but decides not to kill the child.
All this is watched by Catwoman who is sitting high up on a fire escape.
The crime is investigated by good cop James Gordon and bad cop Harvey Bullock.
James Gordon becomes Commissioner Gordon, and all the villains are evolving in their evil ways.
Apart from Catwoman, there's the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler and others.
Happy Valley (ABC Friday) is anything but.
There's a Fargo feel to it as a well respected and basically decent man is so upset that his boss won't give him a rise so he can send his daughters to private school that he asks some villains to kidnap the boss's daughter and extract a huge amount of money for her, with his share enough for school fess.
Immediately he's done it, he regrets it and none more so when he goes back to work and finds that his boss will not raise his wages but because of his good work will pay for both girls to go to school.
The kidnapping has already happened so there is no way that it can be stopped.
Meantime the main character, a police sergeant, has her own problems as the man who raped her young daughter is out of prison.
Her daughter committed suicide after she had given birth to a child from the rape.
Not a load of laughs as you can see, but very well acted and produced.