HBO’s The Penguin made a bigger splash in its regular time slot. The second episode of the series offshoot of Matt Reeves’ The Batman aired Sunday night at 9/8c, where it drew 1.6 million domestic cross platform viewers — outperforming Episode 1’s premiere night by 17%.

Viewers appear to be flocking to The Penguin. The HBO series starring Colin Farrell as the notorious DC Comics villain has racked up 10.4 million cross-platform viewers for its series premiere, which debuted Sept.

Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for The Penguin episode 2 The Penguin episode 2 is full of exciting Easter eggs from The Batman alongside references to the original Batman lo

The new episode of The Penguinfeatures a flashback scene set in Arkham Asylum — and the prison uniforms and visiting room we see are both exactly the same ones we saw in The Batman, the 2022 Matt Reeves film that The Penguin spins out of.

The Penguin charts the rise of Oz Cobb, AKA the Penguin, in Gotham's criminal underworld after the death of kingpin Carmine Falcone in The Batman – and he's up against Carmine's own flesh and blood in the form of his daughter Sofia (Cristin Milioti), fresh out of Arkham Asylum.

The Batman was a masterstroke and stood out as an instant classic at a time when the mainline DCEU was burning in the background. With its gritty, grounded take on Batman and Goth