The Penguin Episode 2 Review: Sofia Falcone Steals Farrell"s Thunder In DC"s Slow-Burner

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After an excellent opening episode, The Penguin episode 2 settles into its groove. It"s a slower burn, consciously removed from the usual pulp of DC comic book adaptations, but which continues to hit its premium TV marks. It still feels like Colin Farrell"s Oz Cobb is positioning chess pieces around the board, but The Penguin episode 2"s ending sets up an explosive new direction for the show.
Picking up immediately after the grim reveal of Alberto Falcone"s body at the end of The Penguin episode 1, the newest episode of The Batman"s first spin-off takes a slight step back to get more under the skin of the characters. We immediately get more of a sense of why The Penguin is drawing so many parallels to The Sopranos, rather than retelling familiar stories set in Gotham City.
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*Availability in US Cast Colin Farrell , Cristin Milioti , Rhenzy Feliz , Michael Kelly , Shohreh Aghdashloo , Deirdre O'Connell , Clancy Brown , James Madio , Scott Cohen , Michael Zegen , Carmen Ejogo , Theo Rossi Release Date September 19, 2024 Seasons 1 Writers Lauren LeFranc Directors Craig Zobel The Penguin Episode 2 Delves Deeper Into Oz Cobb Colin Farrell Continues To Be Excellent As The Penguin

The changes to Oz Cobb"s backstory are more evident here: not only in the suggestion of the death of his brothers, but also in the confirmation of how he came to work for the Falcones. Oz being an accidental opportunist is a fairly radical change from his recognized DC Comics origin, but it fits how Colin Farrell plays the character. It also reinforces the idea that Oz is a man of the people, and in his own mind, their appointed representative.

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