{"id":124603,"date":"2024-11-11T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T05:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124603"},"modified":"2024-11-11T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T05:58:58","slug":"the-penguin-season-finale-deaths-explained-by-creator-lauren-lefranc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124603","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Penguin&#8217; Season Finale Deaths Explained by Creator Lauren LeFranc"},"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>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>[This story contains major spoilers from the finals of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-penguin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-penguin\" data-tag=\"the-penguin\">The Penguin<\/a><\/em>.] <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHBO\u2019s <em>The Penguin<\/em> concluded its first (but almost certainly, not last) season tonight, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/colin-farrell-penguin-finale-interview-1236055938\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/colin-farrell-penguin-finale-interview-1236055938\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colin Farrell\u2019s Oz Cobb<\/a> defeating his enemies at an enormous cost. The eighth episode saw Cobb return Sofia Falcone (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cristin-milioti\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cristin-milioti\" data-tag=\"cristin-milioti\">Cristin Milioti<\/a>) to Arkham Asylum, imprison his stroke-addled mother (Deirdre O\u2019Connell), and, most devastatingly, murder his admiring young mentee, Victor (Rhenzy Feliz).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShowrunner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lauren-lefranc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lauren-lefranc\" data-tag=\"lauren-lefranc\">Lauren LeFranc<\/a>, who previously took <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/the-penguin-showrunner-interview-1235998260\/\">her steps to create the series<\/a>, returns to discuss the biggest twists from the <em>The Penguin<\/em>\u2018s seventh and eighth episodes \u2014 and what the future might hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Before we get to my finale questions, I wanted to ask about episode seven: The flashback sequence where Oz killed his brothers was so disturbing. It was sort of like you were sitting around the writers room and wondering, \u201cWhat could inspire Oz to get a top hat? Here\u2019s the most disturbing possible reason\u2026\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI\u2019m always looking to see if something can be more emotional or more disturbing because you want to make people feel a certain way. It was important to more deeply understand Oz as a character and what makes him tick. I wanted to pay homage to the previous iterations of the Penguin, and our Oz is not the type of guy to wear a top hat and monocle. But I thought about the movie <em>Top Hat<\/em>, where all these men are wearing the full penguin suit and dancing. I could imagine Oz as a kid watching that and being fascinated and aspiring to that. He loves old movies because of his mother and his drive is so connected to seeking his mother\u2019s love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>He\u2019s watching the rain, but he also turns around to look at the door and we never see his reaction to learning his brothers are dead. So I was wondering, is he fully aware that he\u2019s actually killing them in that moment? Or does he just not care and is thinking about how he gets a nice evening alone with mom?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOz is a very impulsive character. In his first scene, he didn\u2019t plan to kill Alberto Falcone that night, right? It was because he was being laughed at and disrespected, and that\u2019s a trigger for him. I don\u2019t think he created a scenario where he would kill his brothers, or let them die. But it doesn\u2019t matter because it\u2019s just as violent to let your impulsivity control you and then to follow through. The more terrible action is the waiting. He has opportunity after opportunity to say something to tell his mom, \u201cHey, they\u2019re down there and we should go get them.\u201d He never does, and that\u2019s what makes him so terrible and so despicable. So I think he knows definitively what he\u2019s doing, but he\u2019s inside with his mom. It\u2019s warm and cozy. This is everything he wanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>In the finale flashback, when Oz starts making his mom promises in the club about how he\u2019s going to take care of her, does he know what she\u2019s planning? Or do his \u2014 and this is what I was assuming \u2014 survival instincts send up a little signal flare that he needs to perform here and soothe her a bit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI think it is more the latter. He previously told Sofia a story about how his mom didn\u2019t get out of bed for weeks after his brothers died. He feels like he\u2019s lost his mother, in a way. He can feel she\u2019s detached, and he has to win back her attention and assure her it\u2019s okay. That it\u2019s actually it\u2019s better now. It\u2019s easier because she won\u2019t have to feed as many mouths.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>And I love that later with Sofia, he reverted again to being her driver again \u2014 under very different circumstances. That sequence was shot amazingly. Sofia seems so wiped out and resigned. Was a part of her disappointed when she wasn\u2019t shot?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe would\u2019ve liked to have won the day. I think she had everything at her fingertips, and yet her biggest crutch was her rage and anger towards Oz. If she was able to let that go, she might\u2019ve had a better and freer life. And I think when she realizes that Oz double crossed her, there\u2019s a minimal amount of respect there for him. She knows on that drive she\u2019s going to die tonight by this man\u2019s hand. But she does not anticipate at all that the greater death would be bringing her back to Arkham, which is what Oz does to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Did you ever consider having her die in the show, or was she always going to survive? To me, she\u2019s too terrific of an addition to this world to kill off, at least this soon. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI thought about it. I hope some people wanted Sofia to beat Oz because Oz is a villain, and at the end of the day, we should have mixed feelings about the fact that he achieves what he achieves at the cost of all these other people\u2019s lives. To me, for Sofia, the greater death is going back to Arkham after she experienced freedom and saw the potential of what she could have. To me, this is the more tragic way for things to end for her [Interestingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/colin-farrell-penguin-finale-interview-1236055938\/\">Colin Farrell disagrees with LeFranc<\/a> on this point]. I wanted her to have a little inkling of hope at the end in the finale, as well, because I think she deserves that much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>You admittedly got me with Oz killing Victor. I did not see that coming until seconds before. What made that decision right. Would he still have killed him if Vic hadn\u2019t called Oz \u201cfamily\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat\u2019s a great question and I\u2019m so glad that I got you. When you first meet Victor, you think, \u201cThis kid isn\u2019t going to last very long.\u201d And he doesn\u2019t. In a way, he shouldn\u2019t have survived the pilot. I think Oz kills Victor because Victor has seen him at his most vulnerable and because Victor really cares about him and loves him \u2014 and because Victor does view him as family. He learned something from how desperate he was when his mother was threatened. I think Oz believes that for him to achieve the next level of power, he cannot have weakness. And he views love and affection and family as weak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Everybody either got their worst, or second-worst, possible outcome. Vic is dead. Sofia\u2019s back in Arkham. The last thing Oz\u2019s mom said to him was that she hated him, and she\u2019s now trapped in this perpetual hell. So basically, The Penguin won the crime boss game at the expense of ruining as many lives as possible. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnd losing his humanity, or any form of humanity, that he had. That was my goal. And my pitch really from day one is this is a \u201crise to power\u201d story. But it needs to feel like there was a cost to the choices he made and to what he achieved. And he really is living in his own delusion. He\u2019s chosen to keep his mother alive. He\u2019s dancing with Eve who\u2019s dressed as his mother. And he\u2019s creating his own narrative and his own world of what is acceptable \u2014 which, I think, is unfortunately strikingly relevant to what a lot of people in our world are doing themselves in positions of power. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>This show is billed as a limited series, but is it still? On one hand, I don\u2019t want more because it was done so well and it ended right. On the other hand, it was so damn good, and its hard to imagine it just ending. So what\u2019s the latest on that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMy task was to make a bridge between the <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/batman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_batman\" data-tag=\"batman\">Batman<\/a><\/em> and <em>The Batman: Part II<\/em>. I love all these characters, and it is been so much fun writing all of them, and it\u2019s such an engaging world. There are endless stories you could tell in this world. I don\u2019t think anything should continue if there are not better stories to tell, or if you can\u2019t one up yourself creatively. And so I think the only way for something like this to continue is if you feel like you can tell just as rich of a story, if not richer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAll of <em>The Penguin<\/em> episodes are now streaming on Max. Read <em>THR<\/em>\u2018s post-finale interview with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/colin-farrell-penguin-finale-interview-1236055938\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/colin-farrell-penguin-finale-interview-1236055938\/\">Colin Farrell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/penguin-season-finale-deaths-explained-1236056548\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This story contains major spoilers from the finals of The Penguin.] HBO\u2019s The Penguin concluded its first (but almost certainly, not last) season tonight, with Colin Farrell\u2019s Oz Cobb defeating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124603\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}