The Penguin: New Crime Drama

This is a D.C. news story, published by Condé Nast, that relates primarily to Matt Reeves’s news.

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The Penguin is a clever show, shrewdly balancing gritty violence with melodrama

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The Penguin is a spin-off of Matt Reeves’s 2022 film The Batman .

The new crime drama The Penguin (premiering on HBO on September 19 ) is a chewy and gratifying underworld saga with a half -righteous politics at its heart.

It's a big, engaging performance, mesmerizing in both its broad gestures and its careful detail.

Here is where D.C. finally finds its perhaps accidental advantage: its scattered mythology, its myriad stops and starts and reinventions, have created gaps through which creative thinking can sneak in. If The Penguin had to act tightly in service of a larger narrative, I doubt it would have as much snap and personality as it does. Which may be the Penguin’s dream realized: from chaos comes order..

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