[Game Information] The Penguin is doing everything that it’s supposed to do. Modern prestige television has found a formula that tends to work in a world of 6-10 episode runs (though it often works better with 10). One element of that formula is to start the penultimate episode of the season with a flashback, despite the audience itching to know what happened after the previous episode’s cliffhanger ending. It holds back the information you’re most wanting to know while forcing your focus onto something more character-driven, and it’s often to great affect. The writers know that the audience will be locked in for those opening moments, and allows for a sense of delayed gratification when they do eventually cut back to the present day, hopefully with a new perspective on a character or element of the story that’s been recontextualized by the added backstory.