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The great achievement of The Penguin is that it has somehow managed to turn a perennial B-league second-stringer into – and I mean this –...

I thought things couldn’t get much worse for Eric after he drove a golf cart onto the set of Centurios 2 in the previous episode,...

On the press tour for The Penguin, Colin Farrell responded to fans saying they had to come like the complex nature of Oz Cobb with...

The superhero movie is, for better or worse, inextricable from the cameo. Recognizable actors showing up in costume either in the middle of a movie...

Not a great deal happens in Episode 6 of The Penguin, but it’s nonetheless the hour that best exemplifies everything great about the show. Colin...

Nobody said The Franchise is a documentary, but Episode 3, “Scene 54: The Lilac Ghost”, has an ear to the ground of the biggest problem...

If you’d forgotten that The Penguin was a show about villains, Episode 5, “Homecoming”, will dispel any illusions. And I’ll grant you that it’s an...

I wish I knew more about Tecto, the hero of the inevitably doomed superhero flick at the heart of The Franchise. There’s no way this...

Oz Cobb has emerged as such a compelling character that you’d think The Penguin wouldn’t work without him, but Episode 4, “Cent’Anni”, barely features him and doesn’t...

There’s a joke at the end of The Franchise’s premiere that sums the whole thing up. In it, Himesh Patel’s Daniel, the first AD of...

The Penguin is excellent in a way that doesn’t make much sense, and Episode 3, “Bliss”, exemplifies this in several interesting ways. It’s a Batman...

Episode 2 of The Penguin, “Inside Man”, is as good as the premiere was, which got me thinking. Why? That isn’t a trick question. There...

Industry Season 3 was never heading to a happy ending, but even I didn’t expect one quite so cynical as this. Episode 8, “Infinite Largesse”,...

Things are not going well for anyone in Episode 7 of Industry Season 3. The “Useful Idiot” of the title is Eric, though the label...

The Penguin is a sequel to The Batman, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s the furthest thing from a superhero show you could imagine....

In some hypothetical future where Marisa Abela wins an Emmy for her work on Industry, it’ll be for the show overall – but I think...

Henry Muck might be insistent that he’s not a pervert in Episode 5 of Industry’s rather wonderful third season, but I, for one, beg to...

I’d like to make it clear that I despise Rishi Ramdani and everything he stands for to a degree that causes me to physically bristle,...