The Penguin Recap: A Tailgate Party in Gotham
10/27/2024 10:00 PM
Photo: Macall Polay/HBO The two great houses of organized crime in Gotham lie in rubble. Their wounded figureheads, Sal Maroni and Sofia Gigante, are consolidating their remaining powers to take back the city before it falls into the grubby fins of Oz Cobb and his underground band of misfit drug runners. It's hardly a spoiler to point out that The Penguin is about Oz Cobb's rise to power, and "Gold Summit" shows us what'll get him to the top of the Gotham heap in the end. Every crumbling institution of the city - from the halls of justice to the backrooms of Crown Point - is a . . .