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Colin Farrell unpacks ‘The Penguin’s’ shocking finale: ‘It was really, really ugly’

No one was safe in the final episode of “The Penguin.” And shooting its most harrowing scene had star Colin Farrell all cut up.

The naïve teenager, orphaned by the events of “The Batman,” was taken under Oz’s wing and pushed into increasingly high-stakes tasks by his new boss, proving his loyalty. And in the very moment of their victory, Oz strangled him on a park bench overlooking the city, leaving his body in the dirt and making the death look like a mugging. It’s brutal and unflinching, with a shock factor up there with some of the biggest TV deaths this century – the likes of Christopher Moltisanti, euthanized by his “uncle” (actually his cousin) Tony in “The Sopranos,” or Hank, Walter White’s brother-in-law, caught in the middle of a hit gone sideways in “Breaking Bad.”

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