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Is The Penguin Better Than Joker: Folie à Deux?
Critics seem to think so.
By excising Batman and his fantastical sway on Gotham from The Penguin, the city’s criminal underworld feels more grounded in the quotidian details of drug deals and power plays, in actual matters of life and death. The tension in the series’ contradictory flavors of minimalism and maximalism allows The Penguin to slide right along, gathering speed as it moves toward a final act that reflects LeFranc’s deep understanding of her titular character and her extreme confidence in refusing audiences the hell-yeah ending they might think they want.” — Roxana Hadidi, Vulture “The Penguin is a spinoff from Matt Reeves’ The Batman, an already ground-level approach to DC Comics lore that introduced us to Farrell, wholly unrecognizable beneath layers of prosthetics, as a nightclub owner and second-tier gangster.
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