This story contains spoilers from the first seven episodes of The Penguin.] Cristin Milioti has been earning widespread acclaim for her role in HBO's The Penguin, playing the intense crime family heiress Sofia Falcone.

In advance of 'The Penguin' season finale, the actress dishes on episode 7, that batshit interrogation scene, and the wonders of a comic-book adaptation that's so damn Italian.

Days before an election that doubles as a referendum on gender, we hail Cristin Milioti's underestimated, furious queenpin

One of the theories that has been circulating online is the fact that Sofia Falcone’s therapist, Doctor Julian Rush, is not a real person. There is a very potent possibility that the character is a figment of Sophia’s imagination, a coping mechanism that helped her deal with the fact that her father framed her for the Hangman crimes.