I saw the show as he entered a world without a clear good and lost most of his humanity as a result. When Jessie tried clawing out, Walt kicked him back down even while he had that pile of fu money sitting unused in a vault. The ending was great because Spoiler: For that person who didn't watch BB he found some redemption but I think he got off easy with a clear calculation about Doing It For Family because he was already dying. Penguin ending upended that ambiguity with the finale but it's probably deliberate to hype him for the movie. Who doesn't think the MCU Kingpin is a Walter White pussycat when compared to Oz now? What are your thoughts on BCS and Saul's moral struggles? I was disappointed with El Camino because we never found out what Jessie did with his second chance. It's all left to our own imagination.
I mean, this is amazing, and the actor is fantastic, but I wonder if the producers ever ask themselves... should we just have cast someone who looked more like this character? There are an embarrassing plenty of great and talented actors out there.
The should've gotten a black actor to play a fat uggo mobster with a prosthetic mask instead of casting yet another Brit actor to steal Murcan jerbs!! Wait wut?
Cosby as Fat Albert as Penguin? I'll allow it. They can rig it so that he wins an Emmy and have his Kobe moment too.
You idiots. I do not mean Marlon Brando or Fat Albert as penguin. I mean someone like the late Danny Aiello. There have to be some talented, alive, non-pretty people who can act, but I realize you gotta have name actors to get anyone to watch, or that's what producers think. But basically, if you cast someone like Aiello, you spend a total of 7,231 fewer hours with make up for the production of the show. LOL. Aiello was amazing. Story is that Spike Lee wanted Robert De Niro for Do The Right Thing, and De Niro was all like, "you should get Danny."
YES Do the Right Thing is a great movie, and the whole cast is great in it Haven't watched it in years, but that's about to happen
Just finished this great season. I must have been the only one rooting for Penguin all the way until the end when he killed Victor. I thought maybe he didn't really kill his brothers and those memories were a hallucination from his Mom. I also felt like maybe Vic faked his death and he is still alive somehow lol. But nah I guess he's just pure evil. They set him up as a lesser of two evils in the series and it turns out he was the biggest monster out of anybody.
Finally finished watching this show. Just so unbelievably good. Several episodes over the season were just absolute masterpieces. And the showrunners did such a good job of sucking us in to rooting for Penguin, which is exactly what happened to Vic. The guy is magnetic even though he's a slimey gangster, so you want to please him or for him to succeed. But then periodically we get little reminders over the course of the season that the guy is not someone we should be rooting for...but those moments are just seldom enough that we kind of forget and root for him anyway. So we keep getting pulled back into it...until BAM. That ending. Such a gutting moment, because we as viewers are in the same headspace as Vic's character, where we know Penguin isn't a typical "good" guy but you still kind of root for him anyway. So it feels like Oz's hands are around OUR necks as we watch the most likeable character (Vic) slowly get choked out. Just absolutely brutal but also brilliant work by the showrunners. I hope they can convince Farrell to come back and reprise the role. I get how annoying it is to spend 3 hours in a chair having crap layered on to you, but it could very well end up being his most remembered role if he continues to perform it to this level.
I really liked it, not woke at all so their main focus was making something good and not lecturing us about the writers and producers feelings... The lady was bad ass, she was my fav character... Oh and Victor, he was cool...
He has already said that he will be in the next Batman movie....obviously. Will be interesting to see what they do with his character in that movie.
Oh that's good. I thought I read an article headline a few weeks back that they wanted him back for a season 2 of the show, but he didn't want to because the effort of the prosthetics was so much.
