Style-heavy Pennyworth explores the life of Batman's butler Alfred before he met his famous boss. Read Alan Sepinwall's review
“This great nation of ours is at war with itself,” shady, upper-class operative Lord Harwood warns Alfred in the first episode, “the forces of order and virtue battling extreme evil.” This war plays out as a rivalry between the Raven Society and the No-Names, revolutionary groups that both want to overthrow the Queen and Parliament. But where the Ravens envision “a fascist utopia,” the No-Names want a socialist one.
Caught in the fray is Alfred — Alfie to his friends, lest you miss the echoes of young Michael Caine — a combat veteran looking to make enough of a living that he can provide for new actress girlfriend Esme . Instead, his proficiency for violence — both solo and with military pals Dave Boy and Bazza — has him being recruited by different sides of this conflict at different times, when he’s not in the midst of thrashing local gangsters and the like.
“I want to be my own man,” Alfred tells his butler father at one point. Mr. Pennyworth, perhaps aware that they’re all one small part of one very lucrative piece of intellectual property, retorts, “Nobody’s their own man, son. Not me. Not you.”, the style here far outstrips the substance.
I confess, though, that my attention started to wander a few episodes in, after I’d grown used to some of the show’s stranger flourishes. Though the other significant American character is named Martha — I’ll give you three guesses whose mother she’ll surely turn out to be, and the first two don’t count — it’s admirable and smart thatmostly runs away from the prequel aspects.
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