The Penguin
Bliss
TV Flash files “Bliss” as a desk essential hour — The Penguin (2024) on HBO, season 1, episode 3, aired 2024-10-06, 62 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E03: listed hour 3 of 8 in the The Penguin guide, hour 3 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2024-10-06 (62 min). The listed hour before it is “Inside Man” (S01E02). Next is “Cent'Anni” (S01E04).
Essential hour: “Bliss”. Bliss as the titled false comfort: LeFranc's Gotham still operatic, the limited series treating pleasure as a dangerous neighborhood.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Hoping to control the future of Gotham's drug trade, Oz and Sofia must first address the skeletons in their closet. Meanwhile, Victor is torn between his new life and what remains of his old.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bliss sit in the The Penguin guide?
S01E03 is listed hour 3 of 8 — hour 3 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 3.
When did The Penguin S01E03 air?
Bliss aired 2024-10-06 and is listed at 62 minutes.
Do I need The Batman movie first?
It continues in the same continuity after the film's flood. Helpful for Oz and the city; the limited series still plays as a crime origin if you accept post-flood Gotham as given.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti go operatic in the mud of Lauren LeFranc's Gotham crime limited series. Skip the cape expectations; stay for Oz Cobb's climb after the flood. Superhero-adjacent television that plays like pure crime prestige — a complete arc with texture.
September 19, 2024, HBO, and the rope was a flood city. Lauren LeFranc's limited series continues *The Batman* (2022) film continuity without turning into a superhero team-up: Oswald Cobb claws from mid-level crook to crime king after the Riddler's flood — Gotham mob origin as novelistic character study. Colin Farrell reprises Oz. Cristin Milioti's Sofia Falcone is a co-equal volcano. Rhenzy Feliz orbits the climb. Power vacuums fill with bodies and deals. *Sopranos*-neighborhood energy in DC clothing. Sources…
Filed against
- Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb / The Penguin
Colin Farrell goes operatic as Oz Cobb / The Penguin in Lauren LeFranc's Gotham crime limited — Cristin Milioti in the mud, a climb after the flood, skip the cape expectations. Superhero-adjacent television that plays like pure crime…
- Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone
Cristin Milioti’s Mother made How I Met Your Mother a yellow-umbrella civil war — 2000s catalog CBS mythology, the face the kids were waiting for, then The Penguin stretching the same voltage into Gotham crime mud. TV Flash files her as…
- Rhenzy Feliz as Victor Aguilar
Rhenzy Feliz charges through The Penguin as Victor Aguilar, the Gotham kid who gives Lauren LeFranc's crime limited series a street-level pulse the capes cannot fake. Oz Cobb climbs through mud after the flood; Feliz makes the opera hurt.…