Come see Gotham’s newest baddie at Vulture Festival, November 16–17 in Los Angeles, where we’ll be talking to Cristin Milioti.
Like The Batman, HBO’s The Penguin takes cues from 1970s crime thrillers like The French Connection, infusing gritty mob drama with heightened comic-book flourishes. The title character’s backstory is a morbid tale of emotional incest and childhood fratricide, and flashbacks appear via a psychotherapist who wields his EMDR lamp like a hypnotist’s pocket watch.