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The Penguin Recap: Men Have Called Her Crazy
Sofia’s origin story as “The Hangman” makes for a fun and sick ride.
“Cent’anni” makes the most of the show’s secondary villain, flipping the script on Sofia’s “Hangman” origins in Tim Sale’s Dark Victory comic (in which she’s revealed to have killed high-profile members of the Gotham P.D.) At her first meal in the cafeteria, Sofia is welcomed by an ominous chant of “Hangman” from the rest of the women in the room, followed by an all-out assault from a tall, unchained woman blitzed out of her mind on her “clinically administered” dose of Bliss. Sofia’s fierce ambition and lust for vengeance (as well as her narrative function as a bridge between the criminal past and future of Gotham) remains in The Penguin as a firm foundationupon which to build a mostly new character and worthwhile excavation of the monsters greed makes of all of us.
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