{"id":121995,"date":"2024-11-04T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T08:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121995"},"modified":"2024-11-04T15:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T08:07:50","slug":"the-penguin-recap-episode-7-top-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121995","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Penguin\u2019 Recap, Episode 7: \u2018Top Hat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\">\n<div class=\"lede-image-wrapper inline horizontal has-secondary-area\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\">\n            <picture><source media=\"(min-resolution: 192dpi) and (min-width: 1180px), (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (min-width: 1180px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/e63\/937\/72f146f51eee88962ca45d7a3953cf81d7-thepenguin-ep7.2x.rhorizontal.w700.jpg 2x\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 1180px) \" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/e63\/937\/72f146f51eee88962ca45d7a3953cf81d7-thepenguin-ep7.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"\/><source media=\"(min-resolution: 192dpi) and (min-width: 768px), (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/e63\/937\/72f146f51eee88962ca45d7a3953cf81d7-thepenguin-ep7.2x.rhorizontal.w700.jpg 2x\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/e63\/937\/72f146f51eee88962ca45d7a3953cf81d7-thepenguin-ep7.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"\/><source media=\"(min-resolution: 192dpi), (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/e63\/937\/72f146f51eee88962ca45d7a3953cf81d7-thepenguin-ep7.2x.rsquare.w400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/e63\/937\/72f146f51eee88962ca45d7a3953cf81d7-thepenguin-ep7.rsquare.w400.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/picture>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"lede-image-data\">\n<div class=\"mobile-secondary-area\">\n<section data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/episode-recap\/instances\/cm2z9vm4k000x0iberlrabwu6@published\" class=\"episode-recap\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"not-bottom-recap-content\">\n  <a class=\"show-title row\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/tv\/the-penguin\"><\/p>\n<h2>The Penguin<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top Hat<\/p>\n<p>\n    <span class=\"season-number\">Season 1<\/span><br \/>\n    <span class=\"episode-number\"><br \/>\n      Episode 7<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Editor\u2019s Rating<br \/>\n    <span class=\"rating-desc\"><br \/>\n        4 stars<br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n    <span class=\"rating-stars\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"star-on\">*<\/span><span class=\"star-on\">*<\/span><span class=\"star-on\">*<\/span><span class=\"star-on\">*<\/span><span class=\"star-off\"\/><\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<nav class=\"row episode-nav\" aria-label=\"Episode Recap Navigation\">\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>\n                <span class=\"credit\">Photo: Macall Polay\/HBO<\/span>\n              <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9vm4k00120ibegs4m57qs@published\" data-word-count=\"166\"><em>The Penguin<\/em>\u2019s penultimate episode asks: What\u2019s inside a monster? Whether it\u2019s in the campy Pop Art satire disguised as normie children\u2019s entertainment or Christopher Nolan\u2019s Michael Mann\u2013larping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/tags\/the-dark-knight\/\"><em>Dark Knight <\/em>trilogy<\/a>, the most resonant tales of Gotham City are the ones that tap into the triangulation of noir films, B movies, and EC horror comics that, midway through the 20th century, reflected America\u2019s broken postwar soul. \u201cFor those unlucky enough to be living and sane, society was a noir film running in an endless loop,\u201d writes David J. Skal in his book <em>The Monster Show<\/em> of the mid-century intersection of pulp, noir, and postwar terror fueling the whole mad comic-book scene from which Batman sprang. \u201cMarriage as an institution existed only as a setup for murder. No good deed would go unpunished.\u201d If Sofia the Hangman\u2019s horror origin story in episode four, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/the-penguin-recap-episode-4-centanni.html\">Cent\u2019Anni<\/a>,\u201d made the case for <em>The Penguin <\/em>as an essential Gotham City tale, \u201cTop Hat\u201d will go down as the chapter that sealed the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zprx00123b85sd8faorg@published\" data-word-count=\"139\">The episode opens with a flashback to Oz\u2019s childhood and the horror story we\u2019ve heard tell about all season long, as yet shrouded in the fog of unreliable narration. Little Oswald Cobb isn\u2019t like his brothers. A deformed leg and an awkward body to match cut him off from the frivolities of unfettered urban boyhood, and from his penguin\u2019s perch, Oswald has already observed what it takes to get ahead in this world. And he\u2019s personified it in Rex Calabrese (Louis Cancelmi, seemingly on loan from Martin Scorsese\u2019s current evil-gangster rep company), the local capo and criminal protector. Crown Point\u2019s \u201cDark Knight,\u201d as near as little Oz can see. \u201cMr. Calabrese ain\u2019t a good guy,\u201d older brother Jack tries to warn him. \u201cYou ever wonder where he gets all that money?\u201d Oz doesn\u2019t have to wonder. \u201cHe\u2019s a gangster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zpuv00133b858xntzy5e@published\" data-word-count=\"95\">Oz clings to their mother (played in flashback by Emily Meade) with a possessive, oedipal affection, while his brothers are a cloying reminder of his physical deficiencies and a boyhood innocence he never even had the chance to lose, much less enjoy. He\u2019d much rather be cocooned in his mother\u2019s arms watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in <em>Top Hat<\/em> than playing flashlight tag in the abandoned trolley tunnels. Boyhood revelry doesn\u2019t fill Ma\u2019s coffers or get her a penthouse view of the city from which the two of ya\u2019s can dance the night away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zpxt00143b85c3burkko@published\" data-word-count=\"59\">Did little Oswald know he was locking Jack and Benny in a watery grave when he closed that door on them? Probably not. At least, not on a completely conscious level. Regardless, the making of the monster lies not in the moment of senseless cruelty but in the selfish impulses most ardently encouraged and cultivated by an unforgiving world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zq0s00153b85rv6qefjw@published\" data-word-count=\"157\">Back in the present, Oz arrives at his hideout apartment in Crown Point to find the door open, his mother gone, and Victor knocked out on the floor. Sofia has taken Francis, and Sal Maroni is right on her heels with a bunch of his goons to give Oz a few whacks with one of his own stupid golf clubs, then down to the trolley station to take over the Bliss operation. But Sal underestimates the scrap and loyalty of Oz\u2019s gang of misfit toys, and when the firefight breaks out, Oz comes out on top. It\u2019s a cheap-ass win to stand over your opponent as he\u2019s dying of a heart attack, especially when he was seconds away from delivering your death blow. But Oz was born to take every cheap shot presented by the cruelest of fates. Better to be the lowest-down dirtiest devil of the underground than get your ass handed to you by one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zq5x00163b85s7ugzhzl@published\" data-word-count=\"73\">Meanwhile, Sofia is splitting the difference between grilling and taunting Francis, but the sparring of wits is more equal than she anticipated. \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing you let the boys die before you could turn them into monsters like Oz,\u201d Sofia says to get a rise, unwilling to hear the hard truth that Francis has already delivered: changing your name doesn\u2019t change the game. \u201cIt\u2019s all the same shit. Same winners, same losers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zqd600173b85ad2bad5q@published\" data-word-count=\"147\">But the truth sinks in when Sofia visits her cousin Gia at her drab, unwelcoming children\u2019s home. Gia has raised alarms by asking to talk to the police and confirms right away that she saw a gas mask in Sofia\u2019s bag before that fateful night of \u201cthe big sleep.\u201d Sofia denies having killed Gia\u2019s parents and the rest of the family, but it\u2019s in the moment of her denial that she realizes what she\u2019ll tell Julian Rush later on: \u201cFrancis is right \u2026 I\u2019m still playing my father\u2019s game.\u201d And the moment, she realizes she\u2019s perpetuated the totality of her father\u2019s crimes against another innocent girl, the best she can do is tell Gia that their family were bad people who deserved what they got \u2014 kill whatever unvarnished, unreliable childhood memories she had left. The cruelest consolation for an innocent life made ashen before her time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zqfx00183b85twsc0beu@published\" data-word-count=\"64\">Sofia is still shedding a tear for Gia\u2019s lost innocence when Oz calls her with the news he\u2019s killed Sal. His offer is simple: the whole operation, \u201cthe keys to the fucking kingdom,\u201d in return for his mother unharmed. Sofia knows it\u2019s a trap, but she\u2019ll try to play a new game now \u2014 ending the old one by literally blowing it all up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zqin00193b85ucvkq101@published\" data-word-count=\"153\">But leaving the game a winner is more challenging when you\u2019re hell-bent on making the old opponents suffer. As Oz falls through the same hole he locked his brothers in \u2014 ironically saving himself from the same fate he locked them in \u2014 we go back to that fateful dance between little Oswald and his Ma at Monroe\u2019s, where the adult Oz claims Francis got her mojo back. It\u2019s a moment Sofia is fixing to reenact in some diabolical way or another in the present, having accessed Francis\u2019s memories of the place with a little help from Dr. Rush and taking her there to await Oz\u2019s potential survival. And survive he does, fixed with the same insatiable drive that made him a monster all those years ago: \u201cYou deserve the <em>best <\/em>life,\u201d little Oz tells his mom. \u201cI\u2019m gonna get it for you, I promise. And I ain\u2019t gonna quit till I do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2z9zqlz001a3b857bpinyym@published\" data-word-count=\"44\">Oz awakes and emerges from the freshly strewn rubble, surrounded by screams and carnage and twisted metal and greeted by a dirty cop with an invitation to the final showdown. The great American film-noir freak show runs on a loop. Same monsters, same losers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cm2zca27g000a3b85oztb36yb@published\" data-word-count=\"19\"><em>Come see Gotham\u2019s newest baddie at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/vulturefestival.com\/event\/cristin-milioti-anatomy-of-a-performance\/\"><em>Vulture Festival<\/em><\/a><em>, November 16\u201317 in Los Angeles, where we\u2019ll be talking to Cristin Milioti.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/newsletter-flex-text\/instances\/cm2z9vm4k00130ibezxvdsy1b@published\" class=\"newsletter-flex-text initially-hidden opacity-zero\" data-track-id=\"vulture\" data-track-type=\"newsletter-signup\">\n<div class=\"wrapper-style\">\n<div data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"text-form-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<h3 class=\"title\">VULTURE NEWSLETTER<\/h3>\n<p>Keep up with all the drama of your favorite shows!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"terms-and-policy-wrapper initially-hidden\">\n<p>        <button class=\"terms-button\" role=\"button\">Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/the-penguin-recap-episode-7-top-hat.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Penguin Top Hat Season 1 Episode 7 Editor\u2019s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Macall Polay\/HBO The Penguin\u2019s penultimate episode asks: What\u2019s inside a monster? 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