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PENNYWORTH Season One

UK StarzPlay, streaming now

US Epix, finished airing

▶ Showrunner Bruno Heller

▶ Cast Jack Bannon, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Polly Walker

butler was, it seems, to the mannered born. Part crazed genius, prequel is quintessential cult TV, if not a megamix of cult TV tropes. The vast majority of viewers aren’t going to “get” it, but those who do will lap up its self-conscious stylisation. But even they will probably admit that at times it tries too hard to be quirky.

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