this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
6 points (100.0% liked)

DC Studios

150 readers
1 users here now

Lemmy

Welcome to DCStudios, a community for discussing all things related to DC TV/Film productions including, the DC Universe (DCU), the universe created by James Gunn & Peter Safran and DC Elseworlds projects.

We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about DC Studios productions. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!

Upcoming Film:

Upcoming TV:

Discussion:

Related Communities:

Please follow Peacemaker's rules to keep the peace in this DC community!

While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

  1. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.

  2. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.

  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed

  4. Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.

    Regarding spoilers; Please put "(Spoilers)" in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers, as we do not currently have a spoiler tag available. If your post contains an image that could be considered a spoiler, please mark the thread as NSFW so the image gets blurred. As far as how long to wait until the post is no longer a spoiler, please just use your best judgement. Everyone has a different idea on this, so we don't want to make any hard limits.

    Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread. Most of the Lemmy clients don't support this but we want to get into the habit as clients will be supporting in the future.

Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
amoretpax199
MimicJar
SkeetsBot
6
[DISCUSSION] The Penguin - S01E04 (self.dcstudios)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SkeetsBot to c/dcstudios
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oz was barely in this episode, but it was reasonably strong nevertheless. Speaking of 'strong', the avclub has a real beef with Mark Strong replacing John Turturro, but it didn't bother me as much as them.

I don't like it when TV shows suggest that women could murder people in ways that a typically-built woman couldn't (strange them, and then hoist them up into a noose, in this case), but I guess it's okay since - in-universe - it's not a charge that's intended to be scrutinised much. There was also some 'drama school' depictions of cRaZy pEoPle in the Asylum that threatened to make things seem a bit silly, but it mostly managed to keep its tone.

At the end, I thought she was going to kill the kid, which wouldn't have made sense for her character, but that's the vibe my brain picked up on.

I've no idea how Oz is going to worm his way out of this one, so I'm looking forward to next week's ep!

[–] MimicJar 2 points 1 month ago

I didn't mind Mark Strong replacing Turturro. Obviously he was younger, so a new actor makes sense. It was hard because Sophia didn't really look younger, but Carmine Falcone did. Although I just looked it up and Strong is only 6 years younger, so maybe they could have used a little more makeup since Turturro as Carmine looked much older. Either way it's a nitpick.

I'm actually surprised she killed the mother, given the loss of her own, but I'm guessing she might have written one of those "insanity papers"; plus it would have been a loose end.

[–] MimicJar 2 points 1 month ago

Well that's the best advertisement for a carbon monoxide detector I've ever seen.

After the reveal that Penguin screwed her at the start this was the perfect time to get her backstory. Milioti obviously killed it. Although she still looked pretty good after six months of torture, but maybe that was just a way to show that she never fully lost herself (and she definitely lost part of it, see Magpie).

I know the show is called The Penguin but this is the first time I started to wonder, maybe he isn't going to make it. Oz has nothing. Sophia now has everything. That's probably how I'm supposed to feel. I don't want to lose either, but honestly I'm happy whomever wins.