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The Penguin Finale Recap: Man of the People
In the end, Oz gets what he’s always dreamed of, but he’ll have to live with the cost forever.
Everyone perceives him to a degree as a joke, but he has all of these deep-seated ambitions within him from his brokenness.” In its final chapter, The Penguin holds a mirror to the Oz Cobb lurking inside every American: a sad, deformed child with no viable path in life except the false one leading back to the comfort of the womb. I’m sure this isn’t the first time I’ve had to eat crow for speaking too soon, but I have to acknowledge how wrong I was to identify Francis Cobb as something of a two-dimensional mafia-mom stereotype in the first episode, given the magnitude of a Trojan horse catalyst for this “making of a monster” story she became. You’re telling me Batman wouldn’t be investigating this whole damn gang war the second an entire criminal dynasty was wiped out in a single night, or a wild new drug smuggled out of Arkham Asylum and spread through Gotham’s streets like wildfire, or a major city block reduced to rubble?
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