[Game Guide] The Penguin has been a show flush with setup. Characters both new and old, storylines, and new bits of Gotham lore all
had to be introduced to make the series fit within the newly minted Batman Epic Crime Saga. And that’s what long-form
television is good for; it allows those smaller moments that wouldn’t have made it into a two hour movie to survive the
cutting room floor. But I can only take so much “putting the pieces into place” before I start to get a little
impatient. There are a lot of storytelling moments in “Gold Summit” that needed a place to fit into the larger story of
The Penguin, and some outstanding character moments for Eve and Victor come out of it. But when there’s a cliffhanger
ending to every episode that makes the promise of wild things to come next week, it can start to feel like we’re never
actually going to get there.