HBO’s concluded its first (but almost certainly, not last) season tonight, with defeating his enemies at an enormous cost. The eighth episode saw Cobb return Sofia Falcone ( ) to Arkham Asylum, imprison his stroke-addled mother (Deirdre O’Connell), and, most devastatingly, murder his admiring young mentee, Victor (Rhenzy Feliz). Showrunner , who previously took through , returns to discuss the biggest twists from the ‘s seventh and eighth episodes — and what the future might hold.
*** I’m always looking to see if something can be more emotional or more disturbing because you want to make people feel a certain way. It was important to more deeply understand Oz as a character and what makes him tick. I wanted to pay homage to the previous iterations of the Penguin, and our Oz is not the type of guy to wear a top hat and monocle.
But I thought about the movie , where all these men are wearing the full penguin suit and dancing. I could imagine Oz as a kid watching that and being fascinated and aspiring to that. He loves old movies because of his mother and his drive is so connected to seeking his mother’s love.
Oz is a very impulsive character. In his first scene, he didn’t plan to kill Alberto Falcone that night, right? It was because he was being laughed at and disrespected, and that’s a trigger for him. I don’t think he created a scenario where he would kill his brothers, or let them die.
But it doesn’t matter because it’s just as violent to let your impu.