THE PENGUIN is a spinoff series from thewell-received but not-gangbusters success of the Robert Pattinson 2022 THEBATMAN movie. I really liked that film for being the grittiest, most realisticBatman movie yet but that’s a reason why plenty of other audiences were tepidabout it. Honestly, it felt more like an HBO miniseries than a typical Batmanfilm and the irony wasn’t lost on me when they announced Colin Farrell asgetting his own.

    Still, that just added to the sense of oddity ...