To this point, it felt like The Penguin was just about a sleazy underboss attempting to make his way to the top, but perhaps with a heart of gold. That's changed.

When executive producer Matt Reeves first talked to showrunner Lauren LeFranc about creating "The Penguin," he encouraged her to take the same approach he did with "The Batman": Do a deep dive into the Batman comics to find inspiration,

A journalist named Summer Gleeson brings one theory directly to Sofia — that her father, Carmine Falcone (Mark Strong), is secretly operating as The Hangman. Carmine confronts Sofia about this investigation directly,