The first season ofThe Penguinwas , by most metrics , a yawl success . The show managed to expatiate the universe ofThe Batmanwithout making us wonder where Batman himself was , and helped us understand one of that movie ’s most important secondary fictitious character .
Now that the first season is over , though , it ’s unclear whether we ’ll be getting more of the show . The Penguin‘s endingmost explicitly sets upThe Batman 2 , so it seems unbelievable that we ’ll be getting more of the show before that movie . If we do finally get a second season , though , these are a few things we ’d in spades wish to see .
A balance of ground-level drama and more integration with Batman characters
To its immense credit , the first season ofThe Penguinwas a pretty ground - degree story . It ’s set in the immediate backwash ofThe Batman , and focuses on Oz ’s sweat to come up up the ranks of the Gotham offence domain . Because Oz is a blue - degree criminal that no one takes seriously , it makes perfect good sense that Batman never shows up . Why would he ?
Now , though , Oz has been hard established as a threat , and that ’s why the show cease with hints that he ’ll be confront off against Pattinson ’s Batman . So , while the earth - level dramatic play helps to make the stake find manageable , and keeps us from require where Batman is , succeeding seasons of the show could not take the same overture . In a second season , The Penguinwould have to balance its more grounded drama with the realism that Oz is no longer just another average criminal .
More of Cristin Milioti
Everyone concord that , while Colin Farrell is splendid inThe Penguin , Cristin Milioti ’s Serdica Falcone was the show ’s true revelation . Sofia is a serial sea wolf who , it turns out , is not really a in series killer , and she cease the first season back in Arkham Asylum where she started after Oz outmaneuvers her .
Crucially , though , Oz does n’t kill her , and that may be in part because any future seasons ofThe Penguinwould have to include her . Milioti ’s electric functioning is a primal part of the series , and the show would not be worth determine without her . Here ’s hoping we get much , much more of her .
More flashes to Oz’s past
While flashback to a character ’s former life can sometimes drag stories like this down , they turned out to be a pretty substantive chemical element of the first season ofThe Penguin . They helped us translate Oz ’s striving , and his unremitting feeling that no one truly loves or cares about him .
If the show come back for another season , the flashbacks should continue to be part of the show ’s storytelling . They ’ll help oneself us understand Oz ’s current post , and what he might be thinking about as he navigates the endangerment of being a law-breaking boss in a massive city .
An evolution of Oz’s moral universe
As we see in the last moments of the first time of year , Oz has lead from a somewhat lovable low-pitched level thug to a crime Bos who is willing to do anything to maintain his world power . The time of year ’s concluding twist is Oz ’s decision to pop Victor because he ’s concerned that his dearest for the boy could make him vulnerable .
This was the moment we have intercourse exactly how depraved he was willing to be , and how much he was unforced to convulse away . If we get a second season , it should explore precisely what kind of computer code this version of the character abides by , and why he does what he does .
More genuine twists and turns
One of themost surprising aspects ofThe Penguinis that , unlike something likeThe Sopranos , the show had a number of reveals up its arm . We learned that Sofia was not in fact hangdog of the many murders that she had been incarcerated for , and that Oz was even more amoral than we thought .
Those twists help to keep the viewer crochet , but they were also fundamentally credible . If the show comes back for a second season , it should incorporate periodic wrench if potential , if only to check that that viewers delay on their toe .
The Penguin season 1is now well out onMax .
