This story includes major plot details from the finale of HBO’s “The Penguin,” now streaming on Max. It was a dark night on set. At a Q&A following a screening of “The Penguin” finale at the Saban Media Center on Nov.

It’s brutal and unflinching, with a shock factor up there with some of the biggest TV deaths this century – the likes of Christopher Moltisanti, euthanized by his “uncle” (actually his cousin) Tony in “The Sopranos,” or Hank, Walter White’s brother-in-law, caught in the middle of a hit gone sideways in “Breaking Bad.”