The Batman brought a grungey new take on DC's Dark Knight and reopened Gotham City for business, HBO's The Penguin is back to remind us all why we loved that movie so much. That episode 1 achieves that while expanding the world and turning the light of the Bat Signal onto Colin Farrell's Oz Cobb without Robert Pattinson's Bat is a hugely impressive start.

Plucking from the Batman sequel story to "The Long Halloween," "Batman: Dark Victory," this new show rearranges pivotal moments in Gotham's gritty history by way of Sofia Falcone, who is played by Cristin Milioti.

Spoilers for "The Penguin" episode one follow. "The Penguin" has officially landed (read /Film's mixed review here). Picking up a week after "The Batman," Gotham kingpin Carmine Falcone (John Turturro in the film,