Sure, the infamous city of the one and only Batman has always been portrayed in comics, movies and television as a seedy, crime-infested hellscape with a few skyscrapers thrown in. The cops are dirty,

The audience doesn't actually see it in the HBO DC series' premiere, but the actor's make-up job in the torture scene included a surprising level of detail.

Farrell’s physicality matches his minutely calibrated vocal rasp as Oz. He’s not recognizable as Colin Farrell but in this world of deception and shadows, the casting works. And for all the low-light nightclub murmuring going on,