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The Penguin Series-Premiere Recap: Wrong Guy, Wrong Night
Oswald Cobb sees his opening to take control of Gotham. The only thing standing in his way? A hellbent Sofia Falcone, fresh from Arkham Asylum.
Under the careful narrative direction of showrunner Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin casts Colin Farrell’s Oswald Cobb in a monstrous (but recognizably human) “rise to power” arch that feels as comfortable presented alongside the HBO crime-drama canon as it does such DC villain-centered fare as Peacemaker or Harley Quinn. Alberto Falcone falls back in his chair, dead and full of lead, and for a moment, you can almost see a flash of Travis Bickle’s smirk from Taxi Driver … until Oz realizes the shitshow he’s created for himself. In the case of the teenagers he finds stealing his rims on his way out of the Iceberg Lounge, Oz sees Victor Aguilar (Rhenzy Feliz), the scared, stammering kid who doesn’t get away, as a miraculous new sidekick opportunity.
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