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Pennyworth was surprisingly fun, telling a cartoonish (yet weirdly graphic) spy story that just happened to be about a younger incarnation of Bruce Wayne’s butler, Alfred. Unfortunately, that connection to Batman was the show’s weakest link, drowning it in questions about how and why this had anything to do with the Dark Knight. For season two, that problem is less of an issue if only because
Pennyworth has become so much more of a cartoon that questions about its reality are easier to ignore. In the year since season one, England’s two secret societies have expanded their feud into a full-blown civil war, with the fascist Raven Union somehow amassing an army, distributing a line of black Nazi uniforms, and constructing big ominous towers in a shockingly short amount of time. What does any of that have to do with Batman? Well, Thomas Wayne and Martha Kane still have a flirty thing going on, and Alfred is raising money to move to America (where Gotham City is!), but beyond tha