New Update Hints The Penguin Season 2 Is About to Hit Its Stride
After racking up a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score, HBO’s DC crime saga The Penguin finally has a promising Season 2 update—arriving more than a year after Season 1 wrapped.
Good news if you like your Gotham stories grimy and well-dressed: The Penguin might not be done yet.
So, is Season 2 actually happening?
We are not at the greenlight stage, but the wheels are turning. In a new chat with Screen Rant, HBO boss Casey Bloys said he has already started talking with the DC Studios team about what a second season of The Penguin would be. This is coming more than a year after Season 1 wrapped and while the show is still flexing a 95% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes, plus a healthy awards haul: 9 wins out of 24 Emmy nominations, including a big one for Cristin Milioti, who took home Outstanding Lead Actress for playing Sofia Falcone.
"We are talking to the [DC] team about what a second season of The Penguin could look like."
Translation: They like the show, the awards did not hurt, and now the creative/execs are figuring out the next move.
Quick refresher on what this show is
The Penguin tracks Oz Cobb clawing his way up Gotham City’s underworld ladder on his way to full-on crime boss status. It is a character study with brass knuckles, and Season 1 delivered enough to make a second run feel like an easy sell.
- Stars: Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb/The Penguin, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Zegen, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O'Connell, Clancy Brown, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Francois Chau, Carmen Ejogo, and David H. Holmes
- Created by: Showrunner Lauren LeFranc (writer and executive producer)
- EP team also includes: The Batman director Matt Reeves
- Status: Season 2 not officially ordered yet
Where we will see Oz next
Even if Season 2 takes a minute, Colin Farrell is not hanging up the umbrella. His Penguin will show up next in Matt Reeves' The Batman sequel, which is dated for October 1, 2027. Farrell has already read the script by Reeves and Mattson Tomlin and, to put it mildly, he is into it.
"I had so many thoughts and feelings to share with Matt about the script. I really do think it is a masterwork. Kind of a contemporary genre masterwork. It is so brilliant and Robert has got such a lovely journey to go on and take the audience through."
Bold words, but if The Penguin keeps the same bite it had in Season 1, a second season plus a big-screen crossover feels like a very Gotham move: messy, ambitious, and hard to look away from.