The Reel Rejects - THE PENGUIN 1x02 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:23 Your thoughts I started last time? um i thought it was a good episode coy oh i thought it was a really solid episode yeah i i do really appreciate everywhere where it's going right now um so who plays so what's her name uh she's in palm springs she's in what is her name it'll pop up in the next few seconds christina miliati she's brilliant dude she's so good she's so good i keep calling it's So it says Renzi flees. I keep calling him Renzi instead of his name in the show because he was in runaways and he's so good.

Starting point is 00:02:01 But those two really impress me. Like they're two sides of the same coin. Yeah. Like they're both just ostracized. Osterized. Osterized. They're shunned. Everyone judges them no matter what room they walk in.

Starting point is 00:02:15 Like they actually belong together, yet he's the one that she's really hunting. And I actually feel the way how you were talking about feeling for, Penguin in the last episode. I feel that. Oh, you connected down? I feel that way. I feel that for her a lot. Which is strange because I'm like,

Starting point is 00:02:33 this girl's like a psycho about it. She's like, Greg's got a history of mafia ties and killing women. But like really connects. We don't know why she murdered. It might have been totally valid. Maybe it was self-defense.

Starting point is 00:02:45 Maybe they dicted her over in some way. I don't think that's true. I believe it could be. You always got to give benefit of the doubt. And it's until proven guilty is my motto. Seven women. Seven women. You never know.

Starting point is 00:02:56 Um, so I really, I just really love everything that she's doing. And I feel like Penguin, as much as we're getting this mentor, mentee relationship with Vic, I feel like he's going to be descending into a much darker character by the end because he's just like a insanely good liar. Yeah. His ability to lie sounds so truthful. They talk about him talking his way out of stuff, but no, he's just a damn good liar. Yeah. And that scene where he was like putting in Vic and the ground, I was like, oh,

Starting point is 00:03:26 he might be we might be watching as he is rising he is also descending as an individual you know I think that's the direction that we're headed for it and I do think Vic will die I don't think Vic makes it I think it's going to be like the original idea for the Jesse Pinkpin character uh to reference your last episode's uh Vince Gilligan it definitely feels like the breaking bad um as you bring your number two into the depths of the darkness you're going on like it usually costs so I do think he doesn't make it at the end of the season. But it's really interesting to have the dynamics

Starting point is 00:03:59 where Penguin anticipates everyone's decisions and he's able to manipulate it enough. But then this episode we saw like how quickly he can improv and I think that was like what this episode is about where the first episode was about how he can manipulate and play the long game. This episode is about it.

Starting point is 00:04:14 How he can do the short game. Because this episode he was always like on his toes kind of navigating. And the first episode, it was like the first half was planting seeds and the second half was seeing them flower. this one was this game of cat and mouse and jazz and the whole theme of the episode was jazz so jazz is about the notes you can hear not anticipating playing the moments that are going to like share the solos and this was also the episode where you noticed the most cutaways to her character and that's also very jazz like in jazz you've got different solo acts taking over and you never communicate who's going to have the solo that's the beauty of jazz is it's impromptu like someone else is the solo this episode felt like jazz and the first episode felt like an orchestra and I really like like that they made a subplot about the dancing and the jazz and all those things

Starting point is 00:04:57 tie into the way that Oz is able to manipulate things. So I really loved the needle drops being the plot. And I really enjoyed that the subplots and the subtext were all pretty much the direction we were taking as opposed to the first episode, which I really enjoyed like the Easter eggs and like the world building. And I think it was very much a pilot and then a, this is the show. Like to me, the pilot felt almost very contained. Like each section was a play.

Starting point is 00:05:21 The whole episode felt like it could have almost. there was like okay there's your one shot penguin comic now this feels like part one of the last seven like this feels like it's setting up all that big overarching stuff we've got new dynamics so this was a great companion piece to the first and now i'm like okay every week like it just it feels like a different kind of build and different kind of tone yeah i really love the mom relationship stuff yeah it's intense especially in this episode where she talks down to him yeah like last episode she talks down in a way that is also uplifting you know manipulatively yeah uplifting, whereas this one is just, like I said,

Starting point is 00:05:56 stick and the carrot. We got the carrot last week, and the stick was this week. Yeah, I feel like this is going to be a bit of a tragedy, is what we're watching right now. I think the mom will die, and it seems like his main motive is to be able to be king pin for the mom, and also be able to provide for, like, some,

Starting point is 00:06:11 give her a kingdom. And he'll never be able to fulfill that, so then you've got that like festering wound for the Batman. Yeah, then he'll get the glass eye. Yeah. Every season, he gets to get the cigar. He gets the Cigarello thing at the end of the season. But I do feel like by the time we get to the Batman, too,

Starting point is 00:06:28 I do think the mom will die. I think Vincent will die. But we're going to care so much more about the penguin, the character himself. It's going to be so tragic what he's doing in the Batman, too. We're going to feel bad for the crimes. Well, I also feel like we're weirdly watching a love story unfold with Sophia and Penguin. Well, they're so similar.

Starting point is 00:06:44 Yeah. They're both like outsiders to want, they both want to be loved by the people that are around them and that they're not. Like you said, Penguin just wants a friend. Well, I like how this show. like there are long episodes and it takes its time but when you think about the actual plot beats

Starting point is 00:07:00 they really don't like waste time like the fact that we I feel like in a lot of other shows where we landed here at the very end I think a lot of other shows would be like episode five or six 100% each episode feels the first episode felt like about two

Starting point is 00:07:13 and this felt like another two so yeah four or five we'd be like halfway through a season yeah and we're just at the top of this like this doesn't feel stretched out at all yeah it doesn't feel like it wastes on too many supporting characters. I think some of that's a testament to the casting. Like, you mentioned Theo Rossi

Starting point is 00:07:27 from Luke Cage. Theo Rossi, we've got, what, three scenes with him? And you're immediately like, what's that deal with the therapist? Like, there's so many questions and casting someone like that that's so captivating, you're curious inherently. So you don't have to have like a random scene with him. You don't need

Starting point is 00:07:43 to waste it. And there's not many superfluous characters. Yeah, yeah. I like how it's R-rated, too. It's intense. I'm waiting to see, like, how R-rated are they going to go, other than F-Bom. on a little bit of violence. I mean, the guy got stabbed in the heart. First episode, we got a single booby.

Starting point is 00:07:58 We did get a single booby. Single booby. We got a single movie. The same to your kids, Batman. That's right. Not Batman. But I think it's very much establishing the R-rated HBO tone. I mean, we joked in the first episode, all the HBO things.

Starting point is 00:08:12 But I think it's smart. To go to a PG-13 Batman, too. I think it's smart to get it out of the way, though, to be like, this is different. And then you can dive in. I think it also, the penguin fits both tones. Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. Like, this is everything I wanted. I'm really captivated by the Moroni element, even though we've barely had them on screen. Like Clancy Brown's done enough where I'm like, tell me more. And then all the Falcone stuff, I love that the inner family dynamics, everything Oz is doing is just to rattle the cage of their inner stuff, which is weakening them while strengthening Sophia, but he's going to end up betraying Sophia, but he's going to care about her more. So it's going to be harder. At some point, mom's got to go. Maybe, right? Because sometimes we think it's going down a predictable way, and then they kind of throw curve off. They're good. They're really. They're really.

Starting point is 00:08:52 really good at throwing like her sometimes it seems like okay here's what's going to happen but other times it's like they throw a curveball there were a couple times i was like oh he finally got to her and then she's like actually fuck you like i fully believe that she might even been me manipulating him now yeah that's part of the brilliance of her like she's so captivating that i'm like maybe i should trust that she's saying what she means yeah she's even ostracized in her own family especially her own family i love that they had that girl come over and say all the things that clearly she was told to say until her daughter came over and that showed her true motivation of Mama Bear.

Starting point is 00:09:26 Like just that pull in. That isolation is, I think, the thing that makes me felt like connected to her there because she finally found a moment where the girl hugs her and she's like, oh, this is so strange. Let me open up. That's what I like about it. It's like there's subtleties and throughout the entire performance. There's always so much more nuance in every scene that's going on if you just pay attention. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:09:45 That's why I'm a little quieter watching this because I like, I'm so paying attention to like these little things that are happening. and then I also don't want to miss a line of dialogue because it's also a very dialogue-heavy show on top of that. If these reactions are 30 minutes, they can't talk over other dialogue. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:01 But subtitles make it easier to talk over dialogue. If you want to read a show? You can read it while you're talking and you can multitask with their ADHD brains. Oh, look it down here, not watching the acting. Oh, look, not watching the acting. I want to see the darkness in his beady eyes. I want to see Colin Farrell's performance.

Starting point is 00:10:18 It's so good. I don't want to read it. I want to see it I know he's got that eyebrow thing he's good all comes on the eyebrow it's right here it's right point

Starting point is 00:10:27 I mean like his eyebrows and bruise should have gotten Oscars like he's so good at eyebrow acting and here it's like all this makeup eyebrow beady eyes

Starting point is 00:10:35 this is really like a golden globe worthy performance you get the Emmys because it's it's more than just makeup I forget I'm watching Colin Farrell

Starting point is 00:10:44 because he's such a pretty man all the time Colin Farrell is downright gorgeous and this is et cetera, repugnant man. Like, they are, I really just see

Starting point is 00:10:54 the person awes. It's true. I do. I'm going to say something very big and almost as hyperbolic as you thinking this is my favorite comic property of all time. I think it's one of the

Starting point is 00:11:02 absolute best comic performance. I'm just going to say that. I will say this is the first time since Heath Ledger, I feel like I cannot see the actor. I would not disagree with you on that. And that is high because I think

Starting point is 00:11:14 Keith's the best performance of all time. I do agree with you on that. I honestly do not see Colin Farrell when I look in the eyes of Colin Farrell. And those are his eyes, and I do not see that man. I would agree. There's some times where I'm reminded of him in horrible bosses. There was a couple times when he was, like, being sweet to Leslie, whatever his alimized woman's name was.

Starting point is 00:11:38 I forget her name. When he was being sweet to her and I was like, she just got to kiss Colin Farrell. Like I had that moment, but I'll be guess I'm like, that guy's handsome under there. But other than that, I'm just like, that's Oz. Yeah. I don't. I have to remind me. myself on watching Colin Farrell sometimes.

Starting point is 00:11:51 Which is insane because he's one of the best actors working as far as like volume and quality. So it's insane that we can lose him. It's not like you're losing an unknown or like someone we're not aware of like intricately. This is someone whose face we've seen for 30 years. Yeah. And it's interesting to take like this supporting

Starting point is 00:12:08 character who had minimal screen time in the Batman and then expand upon him and they're like, oh, that's kind of the point of the show is like, oh, this person who you feel like shouldn't be a lead is a lead. Yeah. Yeah. And I love that they're building through that. They're building Gotham. They're building the crime saga. They're building a world.

Starting point is 00:12:24 But it's his story. I was a little afraid to be honest. I was afraid with Gen V as well as the tie-in element would make one of them feel lesser or that it was trying too hard to set up the other. I'd never felt with Gen V that it was trying to just be the boy's light. And I do not feel like

Starting point is 00:12:42 with this, it's a bridge episode to the Batman too. It literally feels like Oz didn't have to be in the Batman, but I'm so glad he was because of that element. I would Like a little bit more, I feel like it might come in some stuff about like cops onto them or something like that. I do think they're going to cut to that because of the dirty cop. I think that's coming. Yeah, because there's, I feel like there's no real, like if you're going to be a crime show, part of the threat is law enforcement. Just think about dirty cops are. Like in Gotham and they're dealing with the town is gone. Yeah. Like cops are busy. Like the whole point at the end of Batman was the riddler caused the chaos in that Batman lost to a point and there was no way to clean out the town. town like the town literally couldn't be cleansed by the water because of how dirty the cops were so i think there is a plausible deniability of the cops are dealing with a giant threat of rebuild and they were never

Starting point is 00:13:30 that clean to begin with yeah no i i agree but i but i do agree that at some point it should be addressed even if it's the corruption of that one cop that gets brought up later yes is fun show so good fun show uh what do you guys think let's down the comments it's a thinking show it's i love how much it lets it breathe but it never is boring i love that it is very well paced but it's It's not trying to be stagnant. Like, sometimes mafia stuff. I'm like, we get it. You're holding on a shot of the tie.

Starting point is 00:13:54 Yeah, it's very, it's immersive and especially to a Colin Farrell's performance. Like, it's, it's so natural. Yeah. That you forget how good it is. Does that make sense? 100%. Like, you just feel like you're just watching somebody that you're not even like, oh yeah, this is like amazing action.

Starting point is 00:14:11 Right, right. Like, really good action. Like, that guy's on screen. Yeah. It's also insane that it's that immersive and it's that good. And he's waddling around. Like, he's literally doing penguin shit. And yet you're like, that's acting.

Starting point is 00:14:21 Like, you're not thinking about the fact that he's got all these, like, super comic booky elements. The cigar and the waddle is crazy comicky. And yet his porons is so good. I'm not like, that's a waddling guy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm really impressed with how they're handling the show. Impressed. Much love to this show.

Starting point is 00:14:37 Everything I wanted so far, let us know in the comments below if it's everything you wanted so far. Let us know if you've got any theories, ideas where things are going. Are you affected by the lack of cops so far? Are you affected by what Gotham feels like? What are your thoughts? Let us know down below. Please leave a like as we buggy on out of here. Hit that notification bell if you haven't already

Starting point is 00:14:55 because episode three will be dropping it next week. Keep your eyes peeled. This show changes actually from, I think it's a Saturday release to a Sunday release. So hit that notification bell. Is it Thursday to Sunday? Is it Thursday to Sunday? It's something weird like that. It's something to Sunday.

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Starting point is 00:15:21 And I think he's got to do a great job with it. He said the first episode's like a masterpiece. He's maybe talking out of his ass. I don't know. I don't know if he's talking out of his ass or not, but you've got to go watch it. You better listen. You better watch it. You better watch it.

Starting point is 00:15:35 The Penguin's a good show, and Michael B isn't even better react. That's right. He makes the show even better. He's like the Penguin of Reacting. So if you want to enjoy it, and also, congratulations to yourself on 100,000 subscribers, Michael B. You're a good boy. That's what B stands to Michael Boy. Who's a good boy?

Starting point is 00:15:53 You're a good boy. Hey, come here, little doggy. Come here, a little doggy. Come here, you want to sit on my lap, Michael B. Hey, what are you doing? You want a little chin rub. Yeah, little Michael, Mitch. Oh.

Starting point is 00:16:03 Little Michael bitch is my little doggy. You sit on my lap, little Michael bitch. Look at that. You're going to let talk to you like that. Yeah, you can't talk about it. That's true. It's rhetorical. That's true.

Starting point is 00:16:14 You're trapped. Go watch a shit, guys. Oh!

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The Reel Rejects - THE PENGUIN 1x02 Breakdown & Review!!!

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