The Penguin: Season 1

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: September 19, 2024

Summary: Mob boss Oz Cobb aka The Penguin (Colin Farrell) sees a possible opening in the power vacuum left in Gotham after what occurred in the 2022 film The Batman.

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Action & Adventure

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E8. Great or Little Thing
Air Date: November 10, 2024
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S1:E7. Top Hat
Air Date: November 3, 2024
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S1:E6. Gold Summit
Air Date: October 27, 2024

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The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Sep 20, 2024

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. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Sep 19, 2024

“The Penguin” exerts an unusually confident grip. It’s a velvety, acidic reminder of how so many underworld tropes can be revived, and made exciting, with the right collaborators working as one, and the right actors taking the job seriously without treating it like holy writ or solemnity bordering on bloody sanctimony. Read full review

Eric Goldman

Sep 12, 2024

The Penguin is a fairly straightforward yet involving mobster story powered by Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti’s terrific performances. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Sep 17, 2024

“The Penguin” doesn’t overplay its hand enough to go broke, mind you, but it does undercut itself slightly with just a few too many meandering moments. Still, in terms of superhero-centric franchise TV, it’s arguably among some of the best viewers have been offered to date. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Sep 17, 2024

There’s no reason this needs to be eight episodes. The good would have been more concentrated, more powerful, in fewer. The diversions could have been eliminated. Farrell plays Oz like a dumber, more desperate Tony Soprano. That’s better in small doses. Only when Milioti’s Sofia is mixed into the equation does “The Penguin” really soar. Read full review

The Independent Nick Hilton

Sep 12, 2024

The inmates of Arkham aren’t the only ones who are straightjacketed. Comic book adaptations cannot truly serve both their native audience and televisual snobs. For better or worse, they always default to their home camp, and The Penguin is no different. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Sep 12, 2024

If The Penguin just wants to use the former Oswald Cobblepot to tell a traditional Mob war story, it needs to tell a much more interesting version of one, with a more compelling protagonist, than what we get here. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

72
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 19, 2024
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  S1:E8. Great or Little Thing
  Air Date: November 10, 2024
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  S1:E7. Top Hat
  Air Date: November 3, 2024
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  S1:E6. Gold Summit
  Air Date: October 27, 2024
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  S1:E5. Homecoming
  Air Date: October 20, 2024
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  S1:E4. Cent'Anni
  Air Date: October 13, 2024
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  S1:E3. Bliss
  Air Date: October 6, 2024
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  S1:E2. Inside Man
  Air Date: September 29, 2024
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  S1:E1. After Hours
  Air Date: September 19, 2024