This show should be more well known, given the amount of man-children out there that support the plethora of fantasy franchises.
I am really not a big fan of those..never saw a IRON MAN, SPIDER MAN, AQUA MAN, SUPERMAN. I have seen 2 Batmans ( one with each Micheal Keaton & Christian Bale).
Only started when my son watched the first of the first season; he never watched another and I never missed one. The best characters are Martha and Bet Sykes. I love Bet, she’s adorable and plays a ruthless woman with some soft spots here and there. I think I would even enjoy a dominatrix exactly like her, but I digress.
Great blending in the AR into history accurate with apropos music, references and background noise. Clever writers with cutting jibes and retorts. Some of the music snippets include The Who, The Clash, The Sex Pistols and others…but I’ll never truly understand the British fascination with Cliff Richard, in Pennyworth there’s one reference to Cliff Richard & the something breaking up there’s others too; ( my intro into CR was from “The Young Ones where he was ALWAYS the butt of jokes)
Bet Sykes more than once carried a knife used by ww2 SAS & SBS called “ the Sykes/Fairbairn” basically a fixed blade with a hilt and pommel, and of course Alfie, Daveboy and Bazza were all SAS operators “who dares wins”.