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The Penguin Recap: A Tailgate Party in Gotham


Oz knows better than to let a good crisis go to waste.

Their wounded figureheads, Sal Maroni and Sofia Gigante, are consolidating their remaining powers to take back the city before it falls into the grubby fins of Oz Cobb and his underground band of misfit drug runners. But in the words of Clint Eastwood’s William Munny in Unforgiven, “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it,” and Oz has assembled his Gold Summit — shaken up the streets of Gotham with a free sample of Bliss to all who want a taste, enough to gather the remaining leaders of the boots-on-the-ground gangs and underground orgs not already loyal to the Maronis or Gigantes. Colin Farrell plays Oz’s big soapbox moment like a kabuki version of an undercover midnight drug or arms deal scene from Miami Vice — hamming it up and steely-eyed steaming it up in equal measure.

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