The Penguin (HBO) TV Show • Page 7

Watched this all in the last 24 hours. This is the best DC-related content, in my mind, since the Nolan trilogy. Really awesome character development and pretty gut wrenching as I kept waiting for the redemption arc to take hold

 

I really hope Sofia is a supporting villain in Batman 2. preferably with a better haircut

 

Yeah I just finished this myself and it truly is incredible, both Farrell and Cristin deserve Emmys

I really love how this added to the lore of The Batman but also felt like its own thing entirely

 

Selina and Sofia series would be siiick.

 

Watched The Batman and then this entire series this week and fuck was this insanely good. Honestly was pretty indifferent on the film but this series is as good as it gets - for any type of TV show.

I'm not a big Batman (or any superhero/comic) universe kind of guy (I loved The Dark Knight - mainly because of Nolan), and honestly, you could watch this show having no clue about anything Batman-themed or related and still love it as it's own stand-alone series.

I would imagine this show, Colin, Cristin and Rhenzy absolutely clean up during awards season.

 

Yeah I almost feel like that reveal was banking on us totally not remembering/making the connection that Sofia and Selina would be half-sisters and it completely works

 

Rewatching The Batman after finishing The Penguin and it really makes the world and Gotham “click” more. The first half of it is pretty incredible - and now that Reeves the “first” movie out of the way, we’re in for something special

 

It'll be itneresting to see this 2nd movie presumably focus more on the criminal underworld fighting Batman, while I assume keeping Joker and Riddler in the background/tertiary, maybe even being released by the Penguin somehow towards the end or something to set up a 3rd movie that goes back to a big crazy villian sstory like Riddler in the first movie? Idk

 

Hot take: The Batman was worse than all three movies in the Nolan trilogy

What a snooze fest. This show is better than that movie by a lot.

 

I literally don't remember a single thing from that movie lol

 

it's better than the whole Nolan trilogy

 

Ehhhh

 

To each their own, I was just being a pain in the ass lol

 

Watch the first 7

then The Batman

then the last one

fucking rules in that order and the movie hits perfectly

 

I will preface this with again saying that I barely remember anything about that movie but I remember feeling like it was just Batman being angsty for 2 hours with very little going on until the end. And I didn't feel any chemistry between him and Selina

 

Doesn't the whole show take place after the movie? Gotham is already flooded in episode 1

Or are you going for more of a flashback thing

 

I’d try watching it again. I liked but was unsure about it coming out of the theater. It’s much better on rewatches, once you get a better handle of the rot that pervades the city. Reeves just packs so much into the movie that it flies by

 

I watched both the film and the show in the last week.

I 100% enjoyed the show far more than I enjoyed the film.

Not that I disliked the film at all, but the show is just that good. Like, top tier television.

 

I don't think he's incorrect, I like all 3 Nolan movies more than The Batman, but I still thought The Batman was good and different angle on it...while Nolan's batman movies felt like James Bond movies, The Batman felt more like gritty crime drama and I enjoyed it for that for sure.

Ranking? Sure, ranking.

The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman
Batman Begins
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin

Honestly I feel like 2-5 could swap if you asked me on a different day. I really really like Burton's Batmans.

I never cared much for the DCEU and I guess outside of Dawn of Justice, none of them were true Batman movies anyway.

 

And yes I found this show to be better than The Batman overall

 

I finished Caped Crusader the other day. I love that we're getting so many gritty and grounded iterations of Bats but i sometimes wish there was a better balance incorporating the more zany aspects of his rogues gallery. I think that's why I love the Harley Quinn show so much, it really leans into how silly superhero comic books inherently are, while still being very much for adults. One of the many reasons I mourn the loss of the Batgirl movie is we don't get Brendan Fraser as Firefly, dude's just a pyromaniac with a jetpack and a flamethrower. I guess something like Ivy moving giant plants with her mind would stick out in a show like The Penguin, but one can dream.

 

If you want more zany, definitely check out Kite Man: Hell Yeah!