Reprising his character from the 2022 DC superhero thriller, the Oscar-nominated actor works hard to lift up a flightless Mob-war story. Nice try.
a larger opportunity to play the show’s criminal title character. And the prosthetics used to turn the handsome actor into the obese, scarred Penguin make him physically bigger. , but make it Gotham City. All that latex prevents Farrell from accessing his innate charisma. And it’s a Mob drama with a lot of carnage, but lacking a compelling or complex enough character at the center of all its mayhem. seems so averse to showing its comic book roots, if not downright embarrassed by them.
To be fair, this is consistent with Sofia in the comics. But the near-total absence of other notable Bat-characters , or even for the most part people fromtype drama whose central figure happens to have a few traits in common with a famous character. At least when Reeves wanted to unofficially remakeThe series picks up where the film left off. The poorer neighborhoods of Gotham are still reeling from the flooding unleashed by the Riddler’s bombs.
What follows is a particularly vicious vicious cycle, where Oz — with the help of Victor , a nervous teen whose family was wiped out by the floods — time and again plays two other sides of a conflict against one another, inevitably getting them both to trust him despite his reputation for being a duplicitous creep.
The only performer who manages to mostly break through all the silliness is Milioti. No matter the genre or type of role — from playing the Mother herself on— Milioti always brings full energy and a lot of spice to each series lucky enough to have her. In a show that can otherwise be oppressively glum, Milioti is clearly enjoying herself as the outsized Sofia, even as we gradually find out that she’s a lot more complicated, and tragic, than she appears at first.
The very end of the season brings with it some shameless fanboy pandering that implies any future Penguin adventures might be more connected to the larger Batman mythos. But teases of other seasons and movies don’t do much if the current story isn’t exciting in and of itself.
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