The season finale of The Penguin hit HBO last night and it was nothing short of devastating. Despite the shocking final fates of some characters, the series delivered a satisfying conclusion to this story, with Oz Cobb now Gotham City’s new crime kingpin.

Its evolution is one that we hope to see continue The Batman Part II as filmmaker Matt Reeves’ “The Batman Epic Crime Saga” unfolds. We’ve broken down all the biggest moments from ‘A Great or Little Thing’ here but now it’s time to explore exactly how the finale lays the groundwork for this long-awaited sequel.

From potential team-ups to Oz’s new status quo and the Batman of it all, The Penguin is essential viewing to follow the rest of this story.

Check out our analysis of these moments, plus some additional comments from the cast, below.

Letter from Selina Kyle

Foiled by Oz and returned to Arkham when her involvement in the Crown Point disaster is revealed (also thanks to Oz), things look bleak for Sofia Gigante as the finale draws to a close.

However, Dr. Julian Rush offers some hope when he brings a letter from a woman claiming to be his half-sister: Selina Kyle. The Batman concluded with Catwoman leaving Gotham, but that might be enough to bring her home and give Sofia a role in The Batman Part II.

“I mean, it’s my wildest hope that I’ll be able to see her again, because I loved that role so much,” Cristin Milioti recently said The live. “I think if (Sofia and Selina Kyle) were united, we would really tear shit up. I don’t know how to say it… We’d just like to burn it down. You know what I mean? In a funny way. I think we would have a lot of fun.

We don’t expect Selina to get her sister out of Arkham, but that leaves the door open for Carmine Falcone’s daughters. something to help bring down the Penguin.

Oz Cobb wins

After finally settling Sofia, Oz convinces his fellow lackeys to assassinate their bosses and take over Gotham City alongside him. However, he also manages to regain some legitimacy after forming an alliance with Advisor Hady.

The politician warns Oz that Mayor-elect Bella Reál is cracking down on corruption and needs to make himself look clean. This suggests that, moving towards The Batman Part IIhe will have created the facade of an “honest” businessman who can no longer be intimidated or threatened by a vigilante like Batman or even Lieutenant Jim Gordon.

Talk to The Hollywood Reportersaid Colin Farrell, “(Oz’s personality) was forming and changing in the limited series, and, by the end of the eight episodes, it solidifies into something else. There is a degree of almost delusional psychopathy present in the last scene .So how is this addressed in the second film?

This indicates that it does not have an extensive role in The Batman Part II and, like the first film, that means it will be pretty much on the periphery. Farrell has confirmed that he has signed up for a third film, so this chapter may be the big bad.

The Bat Signal

Oz finally has the power he’s always dreamed of, but his mother is in a vegetative state and he pays a prostitute, Eve, to dress up as Francis and tell him how proud she is of his rise to power. . Oh, and he killed one of his most trusted allies when he strangled poor Vic to death in cold blood.

Even when Oz wins, he loses, and a hint of what’s to come plays out when the camera pans outside to reveal that the Bat-Signal has been turned on. This doesn’t mean that Jim Gordon is calling on the Caped Crusader to help him deal with the Penguin, but rather suggests that there is another major threat requiring the vigilante’s help.

“I would have hated for the series to end and end up with the final credits without Batman being discussed at all,” Farrell admitted when he caught up Collider. “And it’s all the way to the end, but when that signal came, I mean, it’s so iconic, and it’s so exciting for me and for the inner child that lives inside of this body I just thought, ‘Oh, shit, there’s a settlement coming.'”

The absence of the Dark Knight throughout The Penguin was undeniably distracting, but at least we know the stage is being set for Batman to make sure Oz pays for his crimes…eventually!

Where is Batman anyway?

There are probably several reasons for Robert Pattinson’s absence from The Penguin. The actor may not have wanted to appear in a TV series or HBO/Max may not have been willing to pay the actor what he needed to make the move to the small screen.

For what it’s worth, the show’s creators insisted that Batman was never planned to appear. With so much happening in Gotham City during this story – including the destruction of Crown Point – The Batman Part II will have to explain the absence of the vigilante.

Farrell has some thoughts on this, telling Collider, “Batman himself, from what I remember at the end of the movie, he’s going through a moment of existential change in terms of what he thinks his purpose is and how he’s going to move forward, as a discouraged sense of entitlement in a city that needs extraordinary help to right the moral wrongs of what is constantly at stake.”

This is as good an explanation as any. We’re sure Batman and Gordon will also provide some exposure for moviegoers as they reflect on Falcone’s fall and Oz’s rise through the ranks, especially since they have a shared history with the villain.