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The original was posted on /r/television by /u/keepfighting90 on 2026-06-07 17:15:27+00:00.

Finally got around to watching The Penguin and it was an amazing show overall - but the season finale made my jaw drop. I've seen very few shows this willing to push its protagonist to this level of terrible and irredeemable. Even famous anti-heroes like Tony Soprano and Walter White had something to keep them grounded to their humanity - Tony with his family, Walter with Jesse. But Penguin straight up goes and has the protagonist personally eliminate the only thing connecting him to any shred of humanity and empathy remaining.

Watching Oz slowly kill Victor was brutal and hard to watch but I have to give the writers credit for being willing to go this far. The final scenes just added to the skin-crawling levels of darkness, with Oz essentially imprisoning his mom in a vegetative state and romancing the escort who looks exactly like her. It's like the viewers are basically being punished for ever finding Oz to be magnetic or badass (shoutout to Colin Farrell for actually being able to do that throughout the show).

The only thing that stops it from unbearably bleak is the bat signal at the end - at least you know Oz is going to get his ass kicked by Bats soon.