When The Batman director Matt Reeves knew what the general story of his movie sequel would be, he clued in Lauren LeFranc, the showrunner and lead writer on HBO spinoff series The Penguin. "I'm always interested," she tells Entertainment Weekly.

After eight weeks of award-worthy performances and an intensely captivating story, The Penguin has ended on Max/HBO (US), Sky/Now TV (UK), and Binge (Australia). And, my oh my, did it end in typically incendiary fashion for a limited series I called an "epic Batman

During the series, fans will have seen Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) launch a drug empire and become a criminal mastermind - surely he will catch the attention of Batman again?