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The Penguin Recap: This Is Gotham
Oz and Sofia’s bid to take over Gotham gets more complex and precarious with each move they make.
As Oz and Sofia begin their bid for dual crime lords of Gotham in earnest, The Penguin ’s third episodemakes the best case for the show so far by framing the proceedings in Victor’s tragic henchman origin story. Now, firmly under the Penguin’s wing, he’s seeing firsthand what his father already knew but never had the opportunity to explain: In Gotham — the dark-comic apotheosis of all American cities — the road from have not to have requires you get your hands real dirty. In the final moments of its third episode, The Penguin finds its signature rhythms and makes a clearer invitation to join its wavelength — sufficiently meeting the awkward demand of an “IP-based HBO crime show” while telling its own type of broad, exaggerated but meaningful American criminal origin story.
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