Anxious but Happy, so cheers

I personally hope that the Penguin does not get a season 2, and instead after each Matt Reeves movie we get another character study piece focused on a different Batman rogue.

"Ok, ma'am that'll be 226.03$."

I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There's a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.

being an adult is always like i have to go to the store i have to go to the store i have to go to the store

Before & After

middle aged lady on my bus just called someone's partner "your whimsical idiot boyfriend" over the phone . with sincere frustration might I add

Well, I am Bruce Wayne.

very important that the line about the book is him trying to build a bomb

still thinking about the penguin actually

making an oz playlist a week ago: but daddy i love him + dress

making an oz playlist now: the black dog + the smallest man who ever lived

The way you can empathize with Oz throughout the first part of the series, how they gradually reveal his sociopathy, how this gradually builds with what happens to his brothers—but still leaves a hint of doubt, a reflex to justify him, something that’s completely shattered when you see that his narcissism is capable of letting his mother be harmed just to avoid facing his own mess, and then they fully solidify him as an irredeemable villain with what he does to Vic—it’s brilliant. The Penguin doesn’t try to make you understand Oz or justify him; it doesn’t humanize the character. Instead, it begins with him already humanized, slowly peeling back the layers, the very same layers of deception, lies, and false appearances he uses to manipulate everyone around him. Underneath, there’s nothing but absolute darkness, and by the time he’s at his lowest point, you’re just wishing Batman would actually show up and take him down, punish him ruthlessly. You end up thinking it can’t end like this—he deserves punishment. Not because you believe good should triumph over evil but because you’ve been made to empathize with and care for a character throughout the series, and Oz has destroyed that character in the most cruel and vile way possible.

The script makes you see Vic as a reflection of the city itself: the impoverished side, the vulnerable, the one fighting to survive, the wronged, the hopeful, the one who makes poor choices not from a bad heart but from the need to get by—and you see how Oz takes advantage of that need, giving Vic hope for a future only to betray him and destroy it all. And that’s when you feel, when you shout: this guy has to be stopped. Oz isn’t just a thug, a mob boss, or the ruthless but entertaining scoundrel anymore; he’s a true supervillain. And supervillains have to go down.

It’s absolutely masterful. I tip my hat to it; I’m still in shock, but I hope I’m making sense—what an incredible script, performances, characters, everything. They’re not deconstructing the villain; they’re deconstructing the deconstruction of the villain. It’s pure screenwriting poetry.

NOOOOO NOOOO NOOOOOOOOOO NOOOO

oh ,,,,

I think the character design in this show is really good.

God, the relief on her face, in her voice. This whole time, Jack's downtown. Just for a moment, she believes...

and then.

God this is devastating, knowing that she knows.

The writers really said oh you thought Oz was a mamma's boy in Gotham? Let's show you just how bad a one he can be and then proceeded to have me on the edge of my seat every scene where Oz and his mother were together