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let's talk about the
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penguin uh Colin Ferrell is uh you can't
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even see where Colin frell is in the
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makeup but the penguin is the spin-off
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series from the Batman movie which is I
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think two-thirds of a good movie the
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first third being amazing we finally get
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to see the the detective bat version of
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Batman um which I really enjoyed I
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thought Robert patson did very good job
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um but it felt like two-thirds of a good
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movie the third act off the rails but
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the standout character was the penguin
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from the series and Colin Ferell is now
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reprising that role in a limited series
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for HBO Max or Max whatever you call it
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it it takes up right after the events of
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the Batman and episode one of the series
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is probably stands I mean we'll see what
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as it as it goes on episode one of the
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series stands as one of the best First
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episodes of a new series I have seen in
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a long time I mean right up there with
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like Breaking Bad and whatnot I was from
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the opening
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scene when we we see the penguin after
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the aftermath he's trying to do a simple
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thing going back to his
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Club encounters arrival they have an
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exchange we're we'll do no spoilers by
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the way because I realize a lot of
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people still have not seen this and I
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don't know that we'll do weak to week
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reviews but we'll definitely re revisit
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the penguin before the end of the series
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for sure but my god um the main the main
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reason this works is the character Colin
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frell as this character so many layers
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um how he deals with people his own
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moral ethics even as a criminal
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um his relationship with his mother his
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uh we we see a glimpse of his deformed
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foot we understand why he walks the way
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he
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does um which is
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gruesome uh the way he is maybe a couple
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steps ahead in playing the game of chess
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with his other Rivals he's smarter than
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he's given credit for
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he takes a young man under his wing a
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character named Victor I want to see who
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he was played by because um I hope renzy
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philes he was great and you can tell
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just they're just set him up okay he's
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not doing anything yet this character is
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just set up and um the uh also the
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character it's it's basically
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Kristen iot as Sophia
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Falone she's she's not a girl boss she
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is a woman but she is dare I say batshit
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having gotten out of
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Arkham and they simply have a dinner you
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know
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together you know oob and Sophia Falcone
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there's so much tension in these scenes
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and that dinner scene phenomenal so I
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even the side characters are so good in
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the series uh just fantastic I'm so uh
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they're setting things up Mark Strong is
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is here as Carmine Falone um so it's
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it's a crime drama ALS you could um you
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could kind of compare it to like a
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Scarface he's Rising through the ranks
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taking out rivals or at least
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you know the beginnings of that and
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Gotham is in Ruins I am all in Gotham is
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a character it's dark it's wet it's
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overcast I don't think I mean the Sun
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comes out once in the show and that's
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even a tension moment when they're
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looking at the Sunrise and the sun
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coming up let's look at the Sun and it's
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tense because you don't know you don't
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know what oob is up to and what he's
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thinking I loved it I'm all in really
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Colin frell he if he's not up for an
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Emmy for this um it's crazy but it also
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begs the
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question make a Batman TV show make a
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Batman week to week you could it could
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run there hasn't been a Batman TV show
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since the original 1966 with Adam West
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which I love when the Box
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said I love Adam West I met
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him um rip Adam West I went to his
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tribute in downtown Los Angeles they
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they lit up um Town Hall in LA with the
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bat signal um there were so many
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speakers there and I went to that wake
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it was during la Comic Con years ago I
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think back in 2017 or
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2 way back a long time ago anyways um
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I've been a longtime fan make a show
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they clear Max knows how to do a show I
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mean currently rings of power is playing
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incompetence Agatha incompetence these
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These are Agatha on Disney plus proves
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Disney does not know how to make a show
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um the am Amazon series The Rings of
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power is just an embarrassment and Max
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has proven over and over again even for
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shows I wasn't excited about House of
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the Dragon drag me in yes season two
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little disappointment but still I'm all
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in um make a Batman TV show make it a
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he's a detective make it grounded you
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can have you know you've got you know
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your villain of the week or conflict of
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the week in a season long Arc it could
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go for years
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years you could bring in so many
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different elements to it and you have if
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you have to recast recast uh I was
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talking to Gary from nurotic he agrees
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like this is what like this is such an
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obvious play and you can have the movie
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Batman and you got the TV Batman TV bat
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man more realistic grounded the movie
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Batman can be epic and what movies do in
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Blockbusters but I'm all in for me nine
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out of 10 uh on the episode one we'll
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see how it progresses Allan what do you
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think about the penguin yeah so when the
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first time we decided to review a
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television show was way back when when
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Kenobi came out right since then every
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series that we have had review I've had
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the same complaint that first episode
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the sole job of that first episode is to
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set the stage and get you excited to
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watch the second episode and each of
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those shows they failed to do that this
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is the first show we've reviewed in time
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uh except for House of dragon um that
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that does that uh it sets the stage and
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and it does it in a way I just following
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the penguin story oob story um you know
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it takes a lot of shifts and turns and
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these shifts and turns uh exist so to
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set the stage in terms of who the who
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the antagonists are in terms of uh
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Sophia Falcone uh and then you have what
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Clancy Brown as salvator uh salvator
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Brown oh great scene but but it sets the
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stage in terms of who is cob who is the
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Penguin to these people and and by the
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very end I couldn't believe that this
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was just the first episode uh I think
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it's 50 minutes long but by the end um
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it takes a massive twist where you
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realize uh what the penguin wants uh by
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the end of the
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series and you know the odds set against
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him you know you know the wrench uh in
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the plans being Sophia
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Falone um but you know exactly what this
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series is doing and where it's going and
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in a way you kind of I mean I'm excited
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to see to see this through to the end
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and hopefully it sticks a landing but
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you can see that it is going to set up
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uh the next Batman movie uh and uh and
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it this is this is exactly what uh
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Warner Brothers needs to do is have a
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great series and then get people excited
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about the movie coming out and um so all
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in this one episode I'm excited
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uh it's f look the look and feel of this
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movie sorry this episode of this show uh
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dirty uh gritty um you look at
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everything Marvel Disney plus
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everything's Everything feels like it's
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a set that had just been built uh you
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don't get these dark tones and and you
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certainly uh you know look at really
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watch the first episode of Agatha and
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tell me that you're excited about seeing
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the rest of it when you watch it you're
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just not because that that first episode
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is just a hearken a connection back to
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One Division uh and uh and it just fails
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on that level th this is yeah I'm I'm at
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least in for now let's put it that way
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