SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the season finale of The Penguin on HBO. Yes, Oz Cobb managed to stoop that low. In one of the final scenes of The Penguin ‘s eight-episode season, Colin Farrell ‘s character had one final surprise to reveal to fans: no one, absolutely no one, is safe in his increasingly violent orbit.
Despite his love and admiration for young Victor Aguilar ( Rhenzy Feliz ), Oz takes the life of his most trusted confidante. For EP/Showrunner Lauren LeFranc, it was important to display that “inevitable quality” of the Penguin before it wraps its limited season on HBO. “Oz has shown himself to be someone who is narcissistic and lives in his own delusion.
He has really struggled with receiving love and seeks it out from his mother, but never fully trusts it from people,” LeFranc tells Deadline. “In so many ways, he is a broken man. When it comes to Victor, it was really important to me that Oz kill him — not because he has any reason to, and Victor did come through for him.
Victor is like family. Yet Victor saw Oz at his weakest, at his most vulnerable. Oz really feels like he needs a level of power.
He can’t have weakness, so he kills Victor.” “It’s not because of anything Victor did wrong,” continues LeFranc. “I think Oz, in that moment, really chose to kill his own heart and embrace the monster that he is.
It is a terrible tragedy, and I’ve always viewed our show as a tragedy. I hope that people are appalled by wha.