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Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler: teaser

Season 3 of DC series Pennyworth will premiere in October.

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Season 3 of DC series Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler, (now with a full title) will premiere in October, with a date yet to be confirmed.

The series follows Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), a former British SAS soldier, who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) and his wife Martha (Emma Paetz), before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.

Season three of the psychological thriller begins after a five-year time jump: the civil war is over, and a cultural revolution has changed the world for better or worse – ushering in a new age of superheroes and supervillains.

In addition to Bannon, Aldridge and Paetz, the cast includes Paloma Faith, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Ramon Tikaram, Harriet Slater and Simon Manyonda.

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  1. Warner Bros stressed DC franchise can’t make up their minds what universe they are in at the moment. I originally watched Pennyworth because of Jack Bannon’s Micheal Cain impersonation and also to make a comparison with ‘Gotham’, and I would give my vote to Gotham as the creatively better show, but both screenplays were equally gothic in style. For me Gotham did at least remain true to some degree to its Batman DNA and also Gotham’s ‘super powered’ criminal characters, but we are talking about comic book characters which can be changed at the whim of their creator, something superhero fans have been enduring quite frequently in recent times mostly for a showrunner or major studios commercial gain.

  2. I can see why they put a full title, because many people won’t realise that Pennyworth was Alfreds surname. But I still think just Pennyworth is a cooler title for the series.

  3. I enjoyed the first 2 seasons of this, I like that it is set in an elseworld time, similar to the Batman: Holy Terror series in which Oliver Cromwell ived past his septicemia and the current world lived in a theocracy. Which the whole civil war part of Pennyworth it reminds me of, so hopefully it will continue in that vein now that is over. I’m a sucker for alt world things though, things like the Man in the High Castle and etc., gets the brain ticking over and often down the rabbit hole of history what ifs.

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