Over a 12 months after its launch and subsequent widespread acclaim, The Penguin nonetheless has not had a second season introduced. A spin-off of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the sequence adopted Oz Cobb/the Penguin as he tries to claim his dominance because the chief of the prison underbelly of Gotham Metropolis, with Cristin Milioti enjoying his main rival, Sofia Falcone.
Whereas the sequence bridges Oz’s arc between The Batman and its sequel movie, it additionally establishes plenty of lore for Gotham and leaves some main free ends for Sofia. Because of this, Milioti addressed the opportunity of The Penguin season two whereas selling Buddy with costar Topher Grace on the 2026 Sundance Movie Pageant (by way of Deadline).
“Yeah, there is not any official phrase on something,” Milioti stated. “And I might love nothing extra, really.” In response, Grace expressed disbelief: “Whoever’s in control of making that call, what are you doing? That is the best factor I’ve ever seen on [television]. We have got to have a season two.”
Although Milioti has her “fingers crossed” for the chance to reprise her Emmy-winning position in The Penguin, the actress additionally confirmed she is “definitively not in [The Batman: Part II] which is a bummer.” Grace once more chimed in to hype up Milioti, urging DC and HBO to resume the sequence: “You are taking a look at one of many nice performances of our time. Determine it out, guys.”
Beforehand, Milioti opened up about her hopes for Sofia’s character in a hypothetical season two of The Penguin. “It simply appeared like there are infinite prospects of the place she may go,” the How I Met Your Mom actress said. “Clearly, I might need to see her get out of Arkham. That’s like primary. I don’t need her in there. So I need to see her get on the market, after which actual revenge.”
As for what Sofia ought to do as soon as she will get out of Arkham for the second time, Milioti stated: “Possibly now she could be much more of a free cannon, as a result of earlier than it was fairly centered on… gaining energy, however relying on what occurs to her in there, it might be a good bigger goal.” Notably, Sofia additionally found that Selina Kyle/Catwoman was her half-sister within the ultimate episode, which may lend its narrative weight to a team-up in both The Penguin season two or one other The Batman-associated mission.
Rumors that The Penguin wouldn’t obtain a sophomore season have been swirling for a number of months. Like Milioti, Farrell has said he has “no concept if it is taking place,” although not like the actress, he’s confirmed for The Batman: Half II. For her half, showrunner Lauren LeFranc stated: “We have been all the time meant to be a restricted sequence, so pivoting to a second season is simply totally different. It’s not one thing we ever actually talked about.“
Reeves himself revealed that Sofia wouldn’t cross over into the movie facet of the Reeves-verse within the fall of final 12 months. “We have been so deep into the [Batman 2] script by the point we have been within the present,” he defined. “However we’ll see. I feel she’s unbelievable. What she did within the present is simply astonishing.”
Although Reeves was excited in regards to the prospect of working with Milioti, he and co-writer Mattson Tomlin have been “up to now alongside within the story” that they feared “it would upset the apple cart” to rewrite the movie to incorporate her. Nonetheless, amid this uncertainty relating to The Penguin, it is clear that Reeves needs Sofia, and by extension, Milioti, in his universe of Batman content material, that means she may seem in a sequel down the road.
The Batman: Half II releases in theaters on October 1, 2027.