I admit I watched the first episode hoping I wouldn’t like it so I could remove it from my queue. It was very good. Now I have to watch it all.

Fantastic series! Highly recommended and a must watch! 5/5 Stars!

Bloys shared this would have aired in spring 2024 but is being pushed to summer because of the ongoing strikes. An IP win, Bloys called it “a good old-fashioned mob story” with Colin Farrell reprising his role as Oswald “The Penguin” Cobblepot from Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” alongside Cristin Milioti, Michael Kelly, and more. Color us excited.

I like the show as a good crime drama. However it could have just as easily been named “The Falcone’s” or “Sophia”. Collin Farrell is doing a great acting job and i would not have know it was him unless i looked it up. Yet there are some more buts. He is entirely to tall to play as The Penguin and other then the limp he has very little semblance to the titular batman villain. They did not even use this real name. It is Cobblepot not just Cobb. Also they mentioned Batman in the first episode and there is no reality in the DCU where Batman is not keeping a eye on so much high profile gang happenings. I would at least liked to have seen a shadow in a alley or on a rooftop from time to time.

Just watched the first episode, it’s amazing! I didn’t know there is actually still good stuff to watch. What a treat!

UPDATE: third episode already the downturn. Not gonna watch this any longer…

Best series by far….. love The Batman

Teaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQghiGQi6Lo

Far too often “creatives” take an IP and create a story that can’t stand on its own, with only hopes to cash in on the popularity of the existing IP. After two episodes, this might be a show that being attached to The Batman IP is almost a disservice to the show. What they’re doing here does more than stand on its own. You’ll know who these characters are before you know their names, no hours of exposition necessary. Rhenzy Feliz’s Victor is the one unknown in all of this and being any more than set dressing with Colin Farrell snarling at him from across the scene is a job unto itself. It’s rare for a show to come together knowing this is it, their one and only chance to tell this story, and just lay it all out there. No holding things back for future season or movie spinoffs, just pure storytelling. Sadly, too many writers don’t understand that you have to know where you’re going before you can get there.

Collin just took this character to “good fellas level” a darker version from the cartoon world, there was no hero’s or bad guys just pure greed in all angles, street justice and carnage as well as double and triple crossing each other, mental illness was displayed from different angles, we all knew Victor was doomed the moment he crossed path’s with Oz, his character reminds me of bits and pieces of scumbags i’ve meet in my life, they talk all this sound good crap with no substance whatsoever behind it just their gain.