What decade is Gotham (TV series) set in?

[Sony Walkman Prophecies]

Driving me mad this. CRT tellies, chrome-rimmed Lincolns, leather jackets and those crumpled little pork-pie hats. Has to be set in the 80s. But no: people make calls on cell phones, albeit on flip-phones like they ones they had in the first Matrix - so  '98, '99 then?

In reality, it's almost certainly a conflation of variously appealing and incommensurate period wares. Secretaries and hospital busy bodies wear '50s horn-rimmed spectacles for a start, and that can't be squared with anything. Also, home furnishings tend towards the contemporary - tripod lamps and all that. Still, fun to think about when you're ill in bed at 4:20 am on a Monday morning.

[Mister Six]

Bit like Batman the Animated Series, then. Tommy guns and gangsters in suits, but Batman's got a big computer and a car with a jet engine in it.

Or Archer, come to that. It's set in the present today judging by the pop culture references and Burt Reynolds' age, but styled like the 60s and Wodehouse was supposed to have fought in WWI.

I like it when shows do that. Shows a conceptual effort that most series never put in.

[Gulftastic]

I like that they fudged it a bit. It added to the overall daftness of the show. It's the closest any tv version has come to the feel of it's source material.

[SavageHedgehog]

If I remember correctly they had early-00s computers in the mix too