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After the events of Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, aka the Penguin, plays a game to take control of Gotham’s criminal underworld. Aside from a Bat-signal in the final shot of the season finale, we never got our hands on Robert Pattinson in the lead role in “The Penguin.” In this short video, IMDb attempts to answer: Where the hell was Batman? Colin Farrell fought hard to have his version of the Penguin smoke tobacco in Batman (2022), but failed. For his own series, however, the character is depicted as a casual tobacco user, with a penchant for cigars. The DC Studios logo is set in a rainy Gotham alley. An umbrella falls and the logo changes to the Warner Bros. logo. Featured on The Graham Norton Show: Lady Gaga/Demi Moore/Colin Farrell/Richard Ayoade/Jack Savoretti (2024). The first episode is a direct sequel to Matt Reeves’ Batman and I imagine those who haven’t seen the latter will be a bit lost. But I watched Batman a while back, and this series did a great job of quickly reacquainting me with where the movie left off without getting bogged down in a didactic recap. It also captures the film’s aesthetic and somber tone nicely, though the series has many more moments of sly levity than the film did. As in Batman, Colin Farrell does a great job of portraying the Penguin as the stereotypical mobster “street guy”: rough, profane, tough, and quick to violence; but also smart, cunning, and able to read people. The character may have absolutely nothing to do with the comic book version, but he’s interesting in his own right. I have my doubts about the show casting the Penguin as a teenage sidekick; and I don’t know if the Penguin’s scheming will be enough to sustain a full season. But it’s off to a great start.