47/12
Following the events of The Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, aka. the Penguin, makes a play to take over Gotham’s criminal underworld. Except for the Bat-Signal in the final shot of the season finale, we never got our Robert Pattinson cameo in “The Penguin.” In this short video, IMDb attempts to answer: Where the hell was Batman? Colin Farrell fought hard to get his version of The Penguin to smoke tobacco in The Batman (2022) but was unsuccessful. However, for his own series, the character is depicted as a casual tobacco user, with a preference for cigars. The DC Studios logo is set in a rainy alley in Gotham. An umbrella falls and the logo changes to the Warner Bros. logo. Featured on The Graham Norton Show: Lady Gaga/Demi Moore/Colin Farrell/Richard Ayoade/Jack Savoretti (2024). The first episode is a direct continuation of Matt Reeves. Batman and I imagine those who haven’t seen the latter will be a little lost. But I did watch The Batman a while back and this show did an admirable job of quickly reacquainting me with where the movie left off and without bogging me down in a didactic recap. It also nicely recaptures the film’s aesthetic and sombre tone, though the show has many more moments of sly levity than the film does. As in The Batman, Colin Farrell does an excellent job of portraying the Penguin as a stereotypical “streetwise” mobster: “rude, profane, flighty and prone to violence; but also smart, shrewd and able to read people.” The character may have absolutely nothing to do with the comic book version, but he’s interesting in his own right. I have my doubts about the show featuring The Penguin as a teenage sidekick; and I don’t know if The Penguin’s machinations will be enough to sustain an entire season. But so far he’s off to a great start.