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Batmandoesnt appearinThe Penguin, and if you accept the show on its own terms, you wont miss him.
What series creator Lauren LeFranc achieves is a contradiction.
There were 100 episodes ofGotham, andPennyworth: The Origin of Batmans Butleraired for three seasons.
The Penguinbegins a week after the events ofThe Batmanand provides a little previously on via nighttime-news reports.
(And was better composed;The Penguinis flatly lit and its action editing can be erratic.)
What rules must one break to get ahead?
Which alliances, and whose labor, should be protected in a dog-eat-dog world?
What is the cost of tapping out of this system or trying to break the wheel?
