‘Gotham Knights’ and ‘Superman & Lois’ give the CW a less-than-super one-two punch
Tyler DiChiara, Olivia Rose Keegan, Oscar Morgan, Fallon Smythe and Navia Robinson in the CW's "Gotham Knights." 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. 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. 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 Rob...