Published on December 22, 2024 at 8:23
Following the events of Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, aka the Penguin, is making a play to seize the reins of Gotham’s crime world. Aside from a bat-sign in the final shot of the season finale, we never got a Robert Pattinson cameo in “The Penguin.” In this short video, IMDb attempts to answer: Where the hell was Batman?
In his own series, however, the character is depicted as a casual tobacco user, preferring to smoke cigars. An umbrella falls and the logo changes to the Warner Bros.
logo. A direct sequel to the first episode, Matt Reeves' The Batman and I think those who haven’t seen the latter are a bit lost.
But I watched The Batman a while back, and this series did a wonderful job of quickly picking up where the movie left off without getting bogged down in a didactic recap. As in The Batman, Colin Farrell does an excellent job of portraying the Penguin as a stereotypical mobster “street kid”: rude, profane, mercurial, and violent; but also knowledgeable, cunning, and able to read people.
The character may have nothing to do with the comic book version, but he’s interesting in his own right. I have my doubts about casting The Penguin as a teenage sidekick; and I don’t know if the Penguin’s antics will be enough to sustain an entire season.