The Penguin Season Finale Twists EXPLAINED By Creator Lauren Le Franc (Twitter: Pic/ @TheBatman)
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HBO‘s The Penguin has ended its first season with Colin Farrell‘s Oz Cobb defeating his enemies. Cobb returned Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) to Arkhan Asylum, imprison his mother (Deidre O’Connell) and shockingly, murder his mentee Victor (Rhenzy Feliz).
Showrunner Lauren LeFranc, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, has now shared the biggest twists from the last and penultimate episodes from The Penguin. including the flashback sequence where Oz killed his brothers.
Speaking about the flashback sequence and what could inspire Oz to get a top hat, Lauren said, “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.”
She went on to add, “I thought about the movie Top Hat, 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’s love.”
Speaking on the death of Sofia and if she ever considered having her die in the show, she added, “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’s lives.”
According to him, for Sofia, the greater death was going back to Arkham after she experienced freedom. “To me, this is the more tragic way for things to end for her. 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.”
On Oz killing Victor, Lauren revealed that when the viewers first meet Victor no one expects him to survive 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 — 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.”