HBO premiered its highly-anticipated series The Penguin on Thursday night, and fans are already raving about it.
Colin Farrell returns as the title character, aka Oswald “Oz” Cobb, reprising his role from the 2022 film The Batman.
This new series takes place just a week after the events of the film, showing how Oz plans to take advantage of Carmine Falcone’s death in the film.
Fans were quick to praise the 70-minute episode on social media, with some calling it one of the “best shows of the year.”
Some even compare the show to another iconic HBO series, considered by many to be one of the best shows of all time.
HBO premiered its highly-anticipated series The Penguin on Thursday night, and fans are already raving about it.
Some even compare the show to another iconic HBO series, which many consider to be one of the best shows of all time.
The premiere finds Oz taking some complicated and risky steps to try and fill the power vacuum in Gotham’s underworld.
The show’s opening scenes show Oz confronted by Falcone crime family heir Alberto Falcone (Michael Zegan).
While he appears to be pleading with the volatile Alberto throughout the entire scene… he is pushed too far and quickly killed, providing the impetus for Oz’s arc.
The show that many fans compared it to was HBO’s iconic mafia series, The Sopranos, as both shows deal with organized crime.
“A great start for The Penguin. It’s very Sopranos-esque and also funny. I didn’t expect Dolly Parton to fall,” said user X @ohhieverybody.