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.

"The Penguin" is the second project set within Matt Reeves' grim, violent take on the DC universe, following 2022's "The Batman" which starred Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne and Batman. The film established that Gotham's police force and the city council are corrupt,

That’s twice now, for filmmaker and producer Matt Reeves. First he directed “The Batman,” the 2022 Batman movie we didn’t know we needed. Now, as executive producer, he has handed off the creative chores to others for “The Penguin,

HBO's "The Penguin" is set in the world of 2021 movie "The Batman," as Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) tries to fill a void in Gotham's criminal underworld.

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),

Macall Polay/HBO It’s time to delve deeper into the psyche of The Batman villain The Penguin. The new series The Penguin debuts Thursday on HBO. It takes place in the universe of Robert Pattinson‘s The Batman,

"The Penguin" picks up shortly after the events of the 2022 movie The post ‘The Batman’ Recap: 5 Things to Remember Before ‘The Penguin’ appeared first on TheWrap.

"The Penguin," a limited series starring Colin Farrell as one of Batman's villains premieres across HBO platforms at 9 p.m., Sept. 19.