An actor's ability to shine is limited by two things: their ability, and the role they are assigned.
The actress who plays Fish Mooney in my opinion does a fantastic job of being Fish. Pure sadistic sexual energy there. So does Gordon - he is the gallant white knight, all the time, really well. The problem these two actors have is they've been cast in roles where, every single time, they're doing the same goddamn thing, over and over again. Which also subtracts from their verisimilitude. Their characters are either all-black (Fish) or all-white (Gordon), with no shades of grey. We haven't seen Fish take a truly good action, or Gordon a truly bad one, thus far yet, which is what makes their characters (not the actors who play them) somewhat one-dimensional.
Oswald Cobblepot had the good luck of being a fantastic actor with a fantastic part; he is all-grey, a bad guy with the moral high ground, or a good guy with the moral low ground, however you choose to see it. When he kills, we look the other way. When he is gratuitously kind, we pay attention. I agree with the opening poster that he is a head above the rest of this cast of actors-turned-characters, even though it is a fantastic cast overall, which is also part of what makes him shine (a good actor can't really ever truly shine without other good actors around him).
M.
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