{"id":1001345,"date":"2026-01-09T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=465170"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:50:23","slug":"with-penguins-hangman-twist-its-finally-become-a-real-batman-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/with-penguins-hangman-twist-its-finally-become-a-real-batman-show\/","title":{"rendered":"With Penguin\u2019s Hangman twist, it\u2019s finally become a real Batman show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/with-penguins-hangman-twist-its-finally-become-a-real-batman-show.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">I\u2019ve had a few friends ask me what I think of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/dc\/453347\/penguin-review-dcu-gotham-no-batman\"><em>The Penguin<\/em><\/a>, HBO\u2019s spinoff miniseries based in the setting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/22951429\/the-batman-movie-review-2022\">Matt Reeves\u2019 <em>The Batman<\/em><\/a>, and to all of them I\u2019ve said: \u201cI mean, it\u2019s a good crime show, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that, but, like\u2026 what am <em>I<\/em> doing here?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That is, \u201cWhat am <em>I<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/comics\/462801\/batman-absolute-joker-reboot-scott-snyder-interview\">a connoisseur of Batman in all forms<\/a>, supposed to get out of this?\u201d It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like hard crime in my Batman stories (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/comics\/2016\/2\/5\/10917142\/the-best-batman-comic\">quite the opposite<\/a>). But decent crime shows are a dime a dozen. A decent Batman show comes along more rarely. Peanut butter is great, there\u2019s a huge audience for peanut butter, but what I <em>really<\/em> like is when you mix it with chocolate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But with this week\u2019s episode of <em>The Penguin<\/em>, focused intently on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/453456\/batman-penguin-hangman-sofia-falcone-comics-origin\">Sofia Falcone<\/a>, heir to the Falcone crime family, <em>The Penguin<\/em> finally gave me a Reese\u2019s Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note: <\/strong>This piece contains spoilers for <em>The Penguin<\/em>\u2019s fourth episode, \u201cCent\u2019Anni.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/with-penguins-hangman-twist-its-finally-become-a-real-batman-show-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>The Penguin<\/em> has spent its first three episodes teasing Sofia\u2019s escapades as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/453456\/batman-penguin-hangman-sofia-falcone-comics-origin\">the infamous Hangman serial killer<\/a>, an adaptation of the comics canon \u201ccodename\u201d she earned in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale\u2019s <em>Batman: Dark Victory<\/em> by committing a string of calling-card murders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But it turns out in <em>The Penguin<\/em> that the Hangman murders weren\u2019t the work of an unhinged serial killer. They were Sofia\u2019s father, Carmine Falcone, exercising his power and fury over women who displeased him. Over the years, he\u2019d strangled a string of female staff at his \u201cgentlemen\u2019s club\u201d with his hands \u2014 an idea that meshes with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xBqGPjP_Pv4?si=DhDxT92-q7bb66Sh&amp;t=63\">the events of <em>The Batman<\/em><\/a> \u2014 as well as his own wife, whom Sofia had always been told died by suicide. When it seemed as though the press and police were about to uncover the pattern of Carmine\u2019s murders, he framed Sofia for his crimes by getting her family to corroborate that she was mentally unstable, and massaging a corrupt and prejudiced court system into indefinitely committing her to the women\u2019s wing of Arkham Asylum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">And this isn\u2019t some \u201crealistic\u201d depiction of a contemporary mental institution, either \u2014 well, sure, some of it certainly is, and we shouldn\u2019t minimize the awful abuse inherent in the carceral state. But this Arkham is, as in comics, a fucked-up conglomeration of our worst cultural nightmare mythology of mental institutions. I\u2019m talking about a cellmate who introduces herself by a fanciful codename (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/e\/464206\">Magpie, an F-tier Batman supervillain<\/a> associated with Arkham stories since Dan Slott and Ryan Sook\u2019s <em>Arkham Asylum: Living Hell<\/em>). I\u2019m talking about an inmate populace kept quiet with a sci-fi drug grown on horrifying (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydnellum_peckii\">and real<\/a>) mushrooms. I\u2019m talking about a bespectacled, paper-thin, capital-E Evil psychiatrist, like an unholy union of a cackling mad scientist and the DSM-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">A common subtext of great Batman comics is that Arkham Asylum not only never rehabilitates anybody, it mostly just makes people worse. That\u2019s not an uncommon trope for fictional asylums, but Arkham serves a particular role in Gotham as the final level of damnation in a metropolitan hell, a cancerous organ that cannot be excised because the whole body is ruled by the indifference and avarice of the powerful. In this way, Arkham is more useful as a metaphor for <em>prison<\/em>, not <em>mental health recovery<\/em>; its revolving door represents Gotham\u2019s problems in a microcosm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/with-penguins-hangman-twist-its-finally-become-a-real-batman-show-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sofia only features in a handful of stories, but her comics arc is clear. In <em>Batman: The Long Halloween<\/em> and <em>Batman: Dark Victory<\/em>, Loeb and Sale illustrated a transitional period between the \u201970s film realism that Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli used to redefine Gotham in <em>Batman: Year One<\/em>,<em> <\/em>and the supervillain flamboyance of modern Batman stories. These books asked the question: How did we get from a Gotham ruled by Carmine \u201cThe Roman\u201d Falcone, who basically walked out of a Scorsese movie, to one where even ganglords have to have a codename and themed henchmen?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The answer, according to those stories, is that the particular Gotham City madness that makes killing people with a codename and a calling card the first solution to most of life\u2019s problems swallowed his legacy whole when both of his children became infamous serial killers. And that\u2019s exactly what <em>The Penguin<\/em> gave us this week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sofia was not a theatrical mass murderer when she was locked up in Arkham. But she is now, now that she\u2019s given an ominous speech and methane gassed most everyone in the Falcone crime syndicate in a single evening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">All these rich supervillain flavors balance out the rest of the episode\u2019s presentation of the misogyny Sofia faces as an ascendant mafia queen. There\u2019s never a sense that the episode is preaching on the topic of how women are assumed to be too irrational to lead, or how mere accusations of a mental break can strip someone of their legal personhood. It\u2019s a complementary flavor of realism that never overwhelms, because of how it\u2019s mixed in with these good, strong, fantastical themes of how Gotham is a machine that turns crime into supercrime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/with-penguins-hangman-twist-its-finally-become-a-real-batman-show-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">And there\u2019s a limit on how much can be loaded on top of that theme before it breaks, anyway. Sofia is not faultless; before this was ever about revenge, it was about her ambition to ruthlessly defend and eventually wield her father\u2019s power, which derives from the suffering of ordinary Gotham citizens. It\u2019s the <em>mix<\/em> of realism and fantasy that keeps the whole thing from breaking under its own weight, a delicious cocktail of Batman bits and real-life bits and pathos and betrayal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">All too often, when Hollywood sets out to make a \u201crealistic\u201d comic book adaptation, you get the distinct feeling that the creators think that actual comic book stuff is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/movies\/460843\/joker-2-review-folie-a-deux\">beneath them<\/a>, that they wouldn\u2019t touch the actual books with a 10-foot pole, lest they catch Lowbrow Cooties. So most importantly, to me, this week\u2019s episode of <em>The Penguin <\/em>shows me that the people behind it are not turning up their noses at the potential of the deep comic book stuff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sofia\u2019s turn tells me that the folks behind <em>The Penguin<\/em> can see the compelling marrow of these stories. They haven\u2019t just read some wiki articles about the Falcone family and used comic book names on original characters \u2014 they\u2019ve read the damn books! <em>The Penguin<\/em> might call Sofia by her canonical comics codename, the Hangman, but this new origin story for her is borrowed directly from her brother Alberto, who, in <em>The Long Halloween<\/em>, was discarded as a weak son, unfit to take on his father\u2019s legacy, and turned to the serial murder of mafia notables to prove that he was capable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sofia might not be cackling in a costume or recruiting themed henchmen just yet. But she is swanning around in a neon yellow evening gown as she gasses a mansion full of people to death. Finally, some good fuckin\u2019 supervillain bullshit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/465170\/batman-penguin-hbo-sofia-falcone-episode-hangman-murders\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had a few friends ask me what I think of The Penguin, HBO\u2019s spinoff miniseries based in the setting of Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman, and to all of them I\u2019ve said: \u201cI mean, it\u2019s a good crime show, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that, but, like\u2026 what am I doing here?\u201d&nbsp; That is, \u201cWhat am I, a connoisseur of Batman in all forms, supposed to get out of this?\u201d It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like hard crime in my Batman stories (quite the opposite). But decent crime shows are a dime a dozen. A decent Batman show comes along more rarely. Peanut butter is great, there\u2019s a huge audience for peanut butter, but what I really like is when you mix it with chocolate.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/with-penguins-hangman-twist-its-finally-become-a-real-batman-show\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>With Penguin\u2019s Hangman twist, it\u2019s finally become a real Batman show | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019ve had a few friends ask me 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