Wak wak.

The Penguin S1 — 1.5/5

This was bad. Colin Farrell disappears into the role, and no one stepped up to take his place. A star-fueled vehicle with zero star power. The whole show's just adding a fat-suit to a nothing premise, a nothing character. It's all talk talk talk, wak wak wak, jesus, everyone explaining themselves because everything lacks inherent characterization. At least in comic books, the rules are that you are allowed to talk, but you must do so under the guise of a fight scene. Maybe—maybe—there's a solid two hour movie inside of the fat-suit padding. If the whole show were building towards how Oz treats Victor at the end, maybe. But in its bloat, the muscles and skin just peel off. Two seconds after saying he can't afford to have family, he returns to the arms of his mother, and to his lover. It's just a lot of effort put in to barely trying.