When I heard a YouTuber praise The Penguin for being a Batman series where the hero doesn’t appear and isn’t even missed, I had to agree with a certain concern. In times of often weird binary values, having the franchise’s protagonist as irrelevant is strange for the actor who plays him, even if he is the popular Robert Pattinson. And a good part of this is due to the charisma of another actor, Colin Farrell, who fans have long complained about not getting the recognition he deserves.

I’ve certainly said many times that I’m a fan of Colin, and I think it’s unfair to him that the weight of the mistake that was Alexandre has fallen on his shoulders. Even the horrible True Detective passed through his career, but he was the best thing about that second season. And he’s already an iconic Penguin.

In this week’s episode, we pick up where we left off, with him playing Sofia Falcone’s (Cristin Milioti) partner. The dark and frightening criminal knows that there is everything wrong with him – he even reported her to her father as Hangman and that is why she was admitted to Arkham for it. The thing is that she doesn’t make a move before knowing all the facts and her torture with Oz is to ‘put him in his place’. He was her driver and is now her facilitator, but not her partner. He, as a man, obviously ignores her and interrupts her more than once, showing off and acting like the boss.

But the episode focused more on Victor (Rhenzy Feliz), who still suffers from the trauma of having lost everything and everyone because of the bombs that shut down Batman, and who also lives with the dilemma of what to do from now on. He has the chance to leave Gotham and the Penguin’s clutches, but he chooses to stay. Since I am not an expert on Marvel and I don’t know his role, it seems to me that his future is not promising.

And if there is anyone who is elevating Colin’s work, it is Cristin Milioti as Sofia. She and Oz start to circulate the new drug in Gotham’s nightlife, even though it is being distributed by an enemy of Sofia’s father. In addition to helping her with this, she is with Oz when they catch Johnny Viti (Michael Kelly) sleeping with Carmine Falcone’s wife. They blackmail him into calling the Triads to set up a real meeting, but Johnny calls the Penguin a “joke”, angering the villain who strangles him. Sofia? She watches peacefully, letting everything fall into place before her eyes.

When everything seems to be going well, Sofia confronts Oz for having betrayed her in the past, and of course, the talkative and elusive Oz cries and apparently convinces her that he is sorry. The problem is that they are interrupted by the Maronis, who see the mobster’s double game and want to kill him. When Sofia and Oz are at gunpoint, Vic arrives and disrupts everything, but only Oz manages to escape. When asked about going back to save her, he’s blunt: “Fuck it, leave her.” It seems to me that he still underestimates someone who is known as Hangman…

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