The Penguin
A Great or Little Thing
TV Flash files “A Great or Little Thing” as a desk essential hour — The Penguin (2024) on HBO, season 1, episode 8, aired 2024-11-10, 72 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 8 of 8 in the The Penguin guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 2024-11-10 (72 min). The listed hour before it is “Top Hat” (S01E07). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “A Great or Little Thing”. A Great or Little Thing as the limited close: Gotham climb measured, superhero-adjacent television that plays like a crime opera, not a spinoff chore.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Truths are laid bare as Oz Cobb nears the end of his journey and his power struggle with Sofia comes to a head.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Great or Little Thing sit in the The Penguin guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 8 of 8 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did The Penguin S01E08 air?
A Great or Little Thing aired 2024-11-10 and is listed at 72 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.…