That said, The Penguin never really got around to answering the one question fans kept asking across its eight episodes. That question, of course, was: Where’s Batman? Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) causes some noisy trouble in The Penguin,

The Batman director Matt Reeves has finally explained why the Caped Crusader doesn't intervene during the events of The Penguin. "This was a time of great turmoil in the city, it's literally the week after what happened,

HBO’s The Penguin only exists because The Batman was wildly successful and audiences really gravitated to Colin Farrell’s against-type rendition of Oswald Cobblepot, or Oz Cobb as he’s known in this universe.