Cinepals - THE PENGUIN Episode 3 Reaction & Review! | Max | DCU | Colin Farrell

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

Jaby and Cortney continue with the new HBO Max series set in the world of The Batman "The Penguin". The show follows the rise of Oswald Cobblepot, a ruthless and cunning criminal mastermind, as he navigates Gotham City's dangerous underworld to solidify his power and become one of its most feared crime lords. The Penguin stars Colin Farrell (In Bruges, The Batman, & The Lobster) as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin. Other notable cast members include Cristin Milioti (Palm Springs, How I Met Your Mother, & The Wolf of Wall Street) as Sofia Falcone, and Rhenzy Feliz (Runaways, Encanto, & American Horror Stories) as Victor Aguilar Watch the cutdown reaction on YouTube at www.youtube.com/@cinepals or watch along with Jaby and Cortney on Patreon at www.cinejump.com SOCIAL MEDIA ~CINEPALS~  YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals ~CORTNEY WRIGHT~ Instagram: @CortneyScottWright

Senna. Pals. I am very excited to continue forward with Penguin Season 1. This is episode 3. Thanks so much for joining us. Here we go. Don't end here. Don't end here.

No, he just... Go now! What about Sophia? Leave him. What? Oz. I'm part of me. I do you come back.

I can fucking do it. But where is Sophia? What did I do? What did I do? Exactly. I'm like, you should have got on the bus. He's like, I should have got on the bus. What a great episode.

That was really good. Wow. Really well written. So good. This is a good comment for them. You know, bringing back their series. I just love that, like, he's just constantly walking this tightrope of emotions and what direction to go. because they're like, okay, so he's at the station, he sees the girl, he's like,

I got to let her go, I got to go back. And he goes back, and he saves Penguin, he's like, what did I do? But it's so funny because they're both in the same thing. They're both running a parallel race. Because Penguin is always in peril. It's like, bro, like, always, you know what I mean? So, like, he's in that emotional place of, like, I'm trying to convince Sophia. I'm trying to, like, you know, deal with the way everybody sees me.

And then the kid, Vic, is still also dealing with the emotions. And, you know, now we know the loss of his family and the loss of his girl. And what am I doing with my life? I agree with what you said earlier, though. It was great that they didn't tell you at the beginning, like, this is a flashback. They just threw you into it. And I thought that was really smart because I'm like, hold on. So he's lying?

I'm like, his family's still okay? Like, they survived. And then you find out, like, what exactly he survived and what he witnessed. That's so traumatic. Just an accident. If he had stayed, because I wanted him to stay home and have, you know, a rose compoio, like whatever dad was making. Yeah.

And because he didn't in that moment, that choice, and that's got to affect him, that survivor's guilt. Like, the fact that I was on higher ground. You know what I mean? Both he and Graciella, like, they both lost their families. They're right next to each other. You know what I mean? Yeah, like his teenage stubborn attitude actually ended up saving his life. That's pretty wild.

And so the visual effects on that sequence, strong like I don't know how much of that is borrowed from the other from the Batman film but it is on par with the effects of that movie yeah it is because like in the Batman movie we only saw it contained within that arena that stadium we saw we saw we saw that flood we saw the flood but we didn't see it affect the the people in the city like this no yeah not like that like to see him to actually get to know his mom his dad his sister to like even that little six minute scene however long it was it was a enough for me to, like, connect to these people and who they were and what they wanted for

their son, what the sister felt, you know what I mean? And then seeing it all knowing exactly what's coming for them, when you see that wave come through, it was really powerful. So they did a nice job of making us root for the relationship with him in Graciello very quickly, which I thought was really smart. So they, well, I should say that they just did a really good job with that because it's the casting and the writing, right? Because they cast a good actress to play that role. And we can see why he's in love with her from the way she carries herself. She's pretty, et cetera, et cetera.

And so immediately I'm like, oh, gosh, like, I can totally see why he should run away with her. And then she's got the ambition in her eyes. She's like, we could do it together. We can go to Calover. I'm like, yo, I get this. You should do it. But at the same time, I also understand, you know, everything Penguin laid out in the bathroom scene, like, why he's staying. Like, I loved everything you did.

And I thought that scene was great between the two of them because she was. wasn't trying to, initially wasn't trying to pitch him to come. Right. But then when she decided to like make the offer, the only thing I would have liked to have seen is a moment where he says, you could stay. You could stay here. Like, I could take care of us. Like, just give me a chance.

And to see her then choose to leave and then him choose to stay. That's the only moment that I would have liked to see. Like, I understand why they had him sit in the car. Completely understand it. And it was still powerful. I'm just saying, I think. I think I would have liked to have seen that last moment where they both actively, and I know they did actively make their choice, but just to see him pitch like, you could stay.

You know, and obviously it would probably take away from, she couldn't stay because it would take away from his journey. I think the only counter I have for that is that she illustrated like, I do not want to stay. Like there's nothing for me here. I don't think there's anything, like sure he could have tried, but she made it abundantly clear in her scene like, I do not want to be here. And you are completely right. She was always going to go.

Even from the first scene when they were on the roof, and she was explaining what he sees, you know, like if he was looking at them from across the way, like what would be seen? You know what I mean? And I totally understand. She's leaving. I know that.

I think I was looking at it like it would give him that final closure because he's still going to be wondering at least at some point down the season. Her name, the thought of her, something is going to come back. And I think I wanted that finality. You know what I mean? But, I mean, and maybe he needs,

maybe he needs that, that glimmer of like, hope, it's not final. Yeah, yeah. I mean, she, she is, to me,

she's still his North Star. She is. Yeah. It could very well conclude. I don't know how far this goes. If it becomes like a Walt, uh, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman situation.

I doubt it. But I could, the two of them, like Penguin and, Penguin. Yeah, exactly. Um,

but I could totally see like this ending the way Dark Night Rises ended, you know, with her at a cafe or something, and he just shows up and he's there in California. Oh my God, it could, but please don't. But I do think we needed that bathroom scene, not just because Vic had to ask, but because he also needed to know he was always free.

Do you know what I mean? Like, they had been through enough and he did everything Pingwood had asked him to do. Like, if he chose to leave, then he could leave. You know, like he was never going to stop him. But the fact that, like, that's all you say, see of me. You know, because it's like you said before, like, yeah, he was lonely, but they both were lonely. It wasn't even that just Penguin was lonely. And these are two lost souls

that found a friendship, a brotherhood that is going to like carry both of them and fulfill a hole that they both have and maybe didn't know they did. Maybe they didn't know they had. Yeah. I mean, I love the way it was written and acted. Colin Farrell did a fantastic job. Yeah. Because like he sees the kindred spirits that they are, the two peas in a pod. And And he's like, like you said, like, it's like the Sonny I never had or a little brother that he never had. And he just wants to like. Or the brother he lost.

Or the brother he lost. Yeah. Like, and you see that in the performance. Like, he really cares about him in his own way. And he's always like looking out for him. Like, he's shielding him. Like when the guy's like, you know, what do you want? And he's trying to like jump the gun.

The waiter's trying to jump the gun with the order. And he's like, you just hold on a second. Let him say it in his own time. I thought I actually dig that. I thought that was really cool. So even the scene outside with, what's her name again? the character. Sophia?

Like, he just had so much going on. So good. So good. Like, if he doesn't at least get a gosh darn Emmy nomination of this. Both of the, all three of them. Yeah. Like, I could see this being a sweep. You know what I mean? Like, they absolutely have to get nominations.

The only reason they wouldn't is because somebody's got a problem with it being set in a comic book setting. But this is brilliant work. You know what I mean? I don't think that applies anymore because Joaquin Phoenix won, both Joaquin' Phoenix and Heath Ledger won for Joker. In Oscar, the Emmys are a little bit... Oh, they're a little bit more...

They're a little bit more posh. Oh, really? They think themselves. I mean, because if you think about, yes, like... I haven't paid attention to the Emmys and Heroes. Well, I mean, I haven't seen them nominate anyone. I mean, there hasn't been anything in a comic book, from a comic book place, this caliber of... Watchmen.

Watchmen, right? Oh, yeah, Watchmen. I was wrong. Yeah, you're right. Because she did win. Oh, she did? I don't know. I have no idea.

Anyway, we're kind of going off. We're going off on a tangent. But you're right. Watchman, I think Watchmen definitely was nominated for Best Series. It got a lot of nominate. Okay, I was totally wrong. They need nominations is what we're trying to say. So overall, I love this episode.

I thought it was fantastic. The only thing I could have done with just a little bit less of, and I know this is nitpicking. I'm going to just put that out there. What I could have done with a little bit less of is the amount of explosions that were happening when he was having his flashback. It's like, I get it. He's going through some shit. But I just felt like they were really, really driving.

the point home, kind of like the end of, uh, you, uh, not Unic, what's it called? Munich. You said, you're saying, Unique. Because there was a joke I heard on stage once where someone said Munich, more like Unic, and I just like, it flip-flopped in my brain. And so, um, yeah, like the end of Munich with, uh, I've never seen Munich. Well, now you've known the ending. It's something like that with, uh, Eric Bant.

Oh, I keep on to say Eric. Yeah, Eric, Eric Bona. I want to, I want to say Eric Banana, but yes, Eric Banna. That's his name. Uh, so yeah, it's, it's like, it's, anyway, that was a lot. that was a long explanation for that nitpick. But I understand what you're saying. I do think that they wanted to showcase the elapsing time.

As uncomfortable as it was for us and it's going on a long time, I think that's what they were trying to showcase. Like, it wasn't something, because a lot of times you see people having panic attacks, and they're real quick. And they're like, okay, I'm better now. And it's like, that's not really how a panic attack goes. Like, you really need to, like, experience it

and find a way to pull yourself out of it. You know what I'm saying? So, like, that's the only reason. Like, I appreciated him seeing the little bottles, like, shaking. Like, it was the earthquake, even though there wasn't one. You know what I mean? It could have been, like, the dancing. It could have been, like, that's what his mind was playing tricks on him.

I wasn't bothered by it. I think I was more uncomfortable. I was like, please pick up those pills because you're about to die. Somebody's about to step on his pills. And then all your money is gone. And how are you going to explain that to Penguin? And Sophia, I mean, even as a penguin, he may let you go. Sophia ain't right.

Okay. Regardless of whether or not she is. or is not the hangman, the girl's off. Yeah. And frightening. What do you think about him not sending a message to Graciella, a text of some kind, and just watching her? I think she saw him.

Oh, she did? I, Courtney thinks that. I don't know that that's what was seen in the show, but I think that they saw, I think they had eye contact. Well, Jabby thinks, at least he could have done was sent her a text and be like, I'm not coming. He could have. Have fun.

I think it was also his fear. Yeah. That's true. I mean, yeah, he doesn't communicate very well, I guess. He doesn't. I mean, look at all the missed calls we had on his phone where she had been trying to tell him. Got to the point, like, he could have had a whole week with her. We could have, like, had a whole conversation.

It got disappointed, okay, let me call her back now. Yeah. And she's leaving tomorrow. Although her bus left kind of late. She was on that 1209. Yeah. Yeah, this episode was solid. And it's a relief that it's so solid because I think you mentioned last time, you know, you have a good strong pilot.

And then the fear is like episode two and then after it's just like, eh. You're going to fall apart. Not so I have personally experienced a lot. And so it's a relief that we're three episodes in and it's still strong. So I'm like, all right, cool. Like I'm ready for the next. Yeah, exactly. And on that note, you guys, thanks so much for hanging with us.

Hopefully you enjoyed this episode as much as we did. Let us know your feelings in the comments below. I'm Jabby Kauai. This is Courtney Scott Wright. Peace out.