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,

The Penguin was so good that we didn't even care that Batman himself never showed up. The show is set in the same world as the 2022 film The Batman, where Bruce Wayne is played by Robert Pattinson. That filmed ended with the Riddler (Paul Dano) blowing up a sea wall in Gotham and flooding a poor part of the city,