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The Penguin production team actually grew those mushrooms.


[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the end of The Penguin episode 7.]

In the gritty and rooted world of the penguinThis was more than a cross shot. It was confirmation that the loser of this war for some involvement in Gotham's underworld should not expect to emerge unscathed. Still, spare one for the damned drug operation that just went belly up in the process. After all, PenguinTo do this, the production designers grew real mushrooms.

“We literally grew real mushrooms and painted blood dots on them,” Kalina Ivanov, Penguin“says the production designer. “It was quite a mushroom operation.”

Of course, the whole business of molding a suitable drug lord, whether male or female; fictitious or not, it requires a lot of work. Ivanov guesses they made “hundreds and hundreds of fake mushrooms” to complete the sets. Obviously, none of the mushrooms grown were actually drugs, nor were they the actual type of bleeding mushroom (which, it must be said, is also not a drug).

Photo: Macall Polay/HBO

“We all became experts on how to bleed mushrooms, how to grow them, what the bags should be like, what the conditions are and what the rooms should be,” Ivanov laughs. “That is the reality; You dig deeper into the research and you can figure it out.

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“We showed the writers a lot of options: how to bake them and how to crush them, and put them in little vials. […] “There were many meetings about drugs.”

In the end, vials prevailed over small medication sachets simply because they were “more interesting” as a means of administration. But in the end, it's all kind of a wash in the Falcone/Gigante/Maroni/Cobb drug war: First, Oz put an end to Sofia's operation at the milk factory, moving her to the tram depot that Sofia exploits in the episode 7. Bliss is apparently no longer in the world of the penguin.

There's also symbolism in Oz's hidden mushroom factory coming out like this. Throughout the exhibition, Ivanov chose places with arches and vaulted ceilings, always looking for “cathedral-like spaces.”

“And when we got to the tram station, I installed vaulted ceilings and called it 'cathedral for the worker,'” he says. “With the vaulted ceilings, with the tunnels, I really felt that at one point, this was a place where everyone who came to work felt like they were entering the church and loved the work they did.”

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Whatever heyday the Oz episode had in the tram depot, it's certainly over. Still, as episode 7 shows us, you can never completely rule it out. He will eliminate his kidnapper; salt from the bowels of the earth; let his brothers die. This man will crawl through hell in search of his higher power and, unfortunately, Sofia is holding her hostage.

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