The Batman brought a grungey new take on DC's Dark Knight and reopened Gotham City for business, HBO's The Penguin is back to remind us all why we loved that movie so much. That episode 1 achieves that while expanding the world and turning the light of the Bat Signal onto Colin Farrell's Oz Cobb without Robert Pattinson's Bat is a hugely impressive start.

The titular character is not an umbrella wielding, whimsically rotund dandy named Oswald Cobblepot, as he has long been in the Batman world. He is now Oz Cobb, a shambling golem of a man, coarse and ruthless as he tries to claw his way to the top of Gotham’s criminal hierarchy.

The Penguin’ airs weekly on Sky Atlantic

Picking up a week after where director Matt Reeves’ 2022 film The Batman left off, The Penguin tracks Oz Cobb as he schemes his way up the ranks of the Gotham City underworld. But it’s also a story about broken people in a broken city who are just trying to find their place.