.JacobOller reviews the Epix series Pennyworth:
Batman, like any good icon, is such an impressive figure that even his second and third-string players can lure fans further and further away from the already interesting source simply by being on the hero’s periphery. We’ve seen Martha and Thomas Wayne gunned down so many times that we might as well have all of Bruce’s complexes ourselves. Fox’s pre-Batman seriestold the story of fresh cop Jim Gordon and the slew of supervillains finding inspiration in a city destabilized by their murder.
Having seen the first half of its premiere season for review, the gist is such: Jack Bannon plays the soon-to-be-butler with swagger, giving us a clippedseries immensely. Here, Pennyworth is an ex-soldier who works as a bouncer and meets Thomas Wayne , as the billionaire strong-arms his sister out of Alfred’s club.
The scene’s tepid fistfight and 1940s sexism are only markers of things to come for a sleepy series whose female characters exist more often than not to seduce guards and inspire its men. Even the Queen is little more than a flirt. Martha , Batman’s eventual mother, does a bit to change this upon her mid-season introduction, but even her snappy performance is undermined. And yes, apparently everyone used to be wrapped up in intelligence work in those days.
Mirroring this uncanny near-history in a visual sense, the show’s distracting urban backgrounds look a little like the perpetually CGI-clouded, distinctly-diffused nostalgia of. Some inspired production design and a few standout sequences shake things up, but it’s usually forgettable by way of practical.
The only clear theme here is the class divide. There’s friction between the sinister upper crust of England, with its not-so-secretive cabal led by Lord Harwood , and the well-to-do do-gooders of America. The latter team up with a group on the other end of things, as Alfred and his supersoldier buddies Dave Boy and Bazza are recruited to slaughter a militia’s worth of baddies during their various adventures, like saving Alfred’s girlfriend Esmé .
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