THE PENGUIN Featurette Offers Insight Into Oz And Vic's Shocking Final Scene in the Season Finale
I finally had the opportunity to watch The Penguin season finale last night, and that final scene between Oz and Vic freakin’ broke me. It was an incredible season finale, but damn… that last scene hurt to watch.
The final episode was shocking and intense and today we’ve got a new featurette that dives into the episode, which is titled "A Great or Little Thing."
If you haven’t watched the episode yet, there are spoilers ahead!
Near the end of the episode we watch Oz Cobb strangle Victor "Vic" Aguilar in cold blood. The character has seen Oz at his most vulnerable, and he kills him because he decides that keeping him around will make him weak.
When talking about that scene showrunner Lauren LeFranc explained: "Towards the end of the show, Victor has seen Oz at his most vulnerable. The two of those guys have been through everything together.
“Someone seeing his vulnerability feels like a weakness and, in Oz's opinion, he cannot achieve what he feels he needs to achieve if he has those weaknesses around."
She adds: "That moment when he kills Victor is him killing his own heart and becoming the monster...I knew that the goal of the series by the end was to rise to the top or get closer to that goal but when he's achieved power, he's lost a lot of himself as well."
Rhenzy Feliz, who plays Vic, went on to say: "For him to be betrayed by the person that he considers family now after we have finally done this thing. We got to the top of the game. It made me, reading the scripts go, 'Wow, this guy is worse than we thought.'"
Producer Matt Reeves said: "The fact [Oz] goes to such extremes because he's so broken, that's the tragedy of the story."
As I write this, I literally just finished watching the final episode so I’m still reeling from it and processing it.
As for Batman, while he doesn't show up in The Penguin, the episode ends with the camera panning outside of Oz's new penthouse apartment where the Bat-Signal shines across Gotham City's skyline.
Check out the featurette below and let us know what you thought about the ending of the series?