The Penguin is finally here, the much anticipated spin-off from the hit 2022 film The Batman which centers on Colin Farrell's gangster Oz Cobb.

Picking up right after the events of director Matt Reeves's 2022 film The Batman (which starred Robert Pattinson as the titular vigilante and introduced Colin Farrell as The Penguin's titular mafioso),

Every second of The Penguin should be eye-roll-inducing. The series is, on paper at least, an exercise in pure franchise expansion. Coming two years after Matt Reeves’ The Batman hit theaters, the new HBO drama picks up almost exactly where that film leaves off.

The Batman brought a grungey new take on DC's Dark Knight and reopened Gotham City for business, HBO's The Penguin is back to remind us all why we loved that movie so much. That episode 1 achieves that while expanding the world and turning the light of the Bat Signal onto Colin Farrell's Oz Cobb without Robert Pattinson's Bat is a hugely impressive start.

When audiences tune in for the premiere of The Batman spin-off series, The Penguin, viewers may wonder why a certain man dressed as a bat doesn’t appear on screen. Executive Producer Matt Reeves has already alerted fans that The Batman’s Robert Pattinson will not show up again until The Batman Part II,

The Penguin’ airs weekly on Sky Atlantic

Spoilers for "The Penguin" episode one follow. "The Penguin" has officially landed (read /Film's mixed review here). Picking up a week after "The Batman," Gotham kingpin Carmine Falcone (John Turturro in the film,

The idea was that at the end of The Batman, we've seen that The Riddler is not just… there is a bit of a kind of a movement. This online, almost incel kind of movement of people. This is, I felt, a useful reminder that something as disastrous as that doesn't happen without there being people still believing in it.