Watched the McMahon series. He's a scum bag like we all knew.
Watching the Penguin now. Fantastic.
I?m having trouble following The Penguin. It may be that I?m not used to the genre but I?m confused by the volume of characters and to be honest also confused by the main characters themselves. I?m fine with evil characters and with gratuitous violence, but characters who are good and evil, or entertaining and evil, need some semblance real to me to enjoyable. The level of crazy and volatility leaves me thinking that there?s no chance they?d really have survived to this point. I get that these are comic book characters brought to life but they need some sort of actual appeal to make them watchable. To this point they just annoy me.
For those who like The Penguin, what about it is good?
Are you supposed to root for Ozwald Cobblepot (The Penguin) like you rooted for Tony Soprano? Or is there a protagonist that you root for and The Penguin is the antagonist?
At least Tony was a family man, and tried to do the right thing, even going so far as to get mental health help. So you rooted for him in spite of the world he ruled, kind of giving him some slack because he grew up destined for it.
Shows/movies that feature bad guys, like Venom, just seem weird to me. At least with most shows/movies about bad guys you at least had a team of nondescript good guys (i.e. the cops!) trying to catch them.