It’s slick, fast – and doesn’t feature the caped crusader once. The Irish actor is a revelation in a series that’s so twisty it leaves you breathless
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Cobb manages the first step – killing Carmine’s son and useless heir apparent, Alberto – with relative ease, after an exchange between them whose emotional brutality is almost as great as Alberto’s ensuing death. This lets viewers know from the off that we are in the presence of a show markedly better than it needed to be and likely to satisfy even the highest expectations of the fandom.
Cristin Milioti plays Alberto’s much more capable sister Sofia, recently released from a 10-year stint in Arkham asylum for a string of murders she supposedly committed. A tentative bond forms between them – Cobb used to be her driver when they were younger, and she too knows what it is to be passed over in favour of lesser men – but it becomes strained and then shattered as her suspicions grow about Cobb’s involvement with her brother’s death.
The Penguin lets nothing get in the way of its story, though. The plotting is fast and neat, with Cobb only ever a hair’s breadth away from triumph or disaster and the audience left breathless watching which way the latest twist will take him. Farrell – really a revelation here, despite being buried beneath layers of prosthetics – keeps the desperation of an underestimated, under-loved being running always just beneath the surface of the ruthless killer.
The Penguin is a slick and powerful beast, with enough action and heart to capture existing fans and create many more. And Farrell himself should soon be swimming in a sea of awards.
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