The Penguin was so good that we didn't even care that Batman himself never showed up. The show is set in the same world as the 2022 film The Batman, where Bruce Wayne is played by Robert Pattinson. That filmed ended with the Riddler (Paul Dano) blowing up a sea wall in Gotham and flooding a poor part of the city,

HBO’s The Penguin only exists because The Batman was wildly successful and audiences really gravitated to Colin Farrell’s against-type rendition of Oswald Cobblepot, or Oz Cobb as he’s known in this universe.

The credits have rolled on Lauren LeFranc’s The Penguin, and after eight episodes of murder, mobsters, and ‘ma’, Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) has waddled his way to

While we're at it, let's go ahead and greenlight a Two-Face TV series that brings a completely new take on courtroom dramas, and doesn't wait until the very end of the season to throw the acid in his face and take him to the darks side. Just don't expect a Catwoman series, because HBO boss Casey Bloys already shot that idea down.

The Penguin finale might have secretly introduced The Batman 2's villains. During the quick courtroom tete-a-tete between Oz (Colin Farrell) and Councilman Hady (Rhys Coiro), you may notice a peculiar print around the walls of the courtroom.

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for The Penguin episode 8 The Penguin episode 8 may have set up the most rumored main villains for The Batman - Part II. The chaotic chain

But one complete scene stood out to me in the finale as a deliberate set up for where we might see Oz in The Batman: Part 2. Almost as if Matt Reeves asked LeFranc to include this one sequence, just to lay the groundwork for a story he’d like to explore down the line.