[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Ben Aldridge, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Emma Paetz, Paloma Faith, Polly Walker, James Purefoy, and Jason Flemyng also star.

[10] In October 2021, it was announced that the series would premiere on HBO Max for its third season, although it would still continue to air on Epix in addition.

He forms his own security company in an alternate history London,[14] which combines aspects of the mid-1960s with invented events and practices inspired by V for Vendetta, such as a modern civil war and televised public executions.

While Thomas and Martha visit Crowley's mansion seeking Patricia, Alfred closes in on Esme's killer, Captain Curzon.

While Lord Harwood stages a coup, Alfred, Bazza, and Dave Boy help Thomas and Martha rescue the Queen from the Sykes sisters.

Five years later, Alfred's security agency has expanded (including Daveboy and Bet Sykes), and new people with powers emerge, whom they capture for MI5 Science branch - for whom Lucius Fox now works as an agent.

Meanwhile, Patrick Wayne, Thomas's father, whom he has not seen in years, shows up to reconnect with his family, alongside his girlfriend Virginia Devereaux.

The next day, Patrick asks Thomas' help in locating Doctor Glubb, a Waynetech employee who ran away with priceless company secrets.

Glubb created psychotropic drugs for the CIA as part of Operation Lullaby State, which is developing mind control.

Following up a clue about incense on the dead CIA agent's clothes, Martha infiltrates Sister Susie's ashram and questions her.

Virginia, revealed to be a CIA agent, sees Martha leaving and authorizes an operation to tie up loose ends.

Thomas returns seemingly unaware of anything happening, however during dinner he gets a call that starts playing Sandra's song to him.

Patrick hires Alfred to break Thomas out and send him back to the US, without Virginia's knowledge, offering to pay a million pounds.

Using a grappling hook gun and automatic lockpick developed by Lucius, Alfred and Daveboy break Thomas out of the Tower, becoming fugitives, but Aziz intercedes so that no charges are pressed.

She pulls a gun on them and Patrick reveals that Virginia sent agents to kill Martha, but then the police burst in to arrest everyone, as Alfred called them in advance.

Thomas' and Martha's relationship is strained due to the mind control assassination attempt, and they sleep in separate rooms.

Thomas mentions how he feels about Patrick's behavior, and this gives him the impetus to leave for Gotham to confront him, taking his gun.

Prime Minister Aziz hires Alfred to act as security for Zahra Khin, the rebel leader of the former British colony Kalpoor.

After thwarting an assassination attempt on her life, Alfred takes her to his bar, where they unveil that her head of security was a traitor and deliver him bound and gagged to the Kalpoor president.

Daveboy attends an art exhibition event at Sally's request, organized by Francis, where paint is poured on empty canvases and the guests.

It is revealed that Glubb works for Foulkes, the man in the V mask, and gave out the Lullaby State drug to select guests at the party.

As the drug wears off, Daveboy realizes that he cannot remember the last two days' events, as Alfred says that they will go to the Hebrides to perform a prison break.

[2] The pilot episode was written by Bruno Heller and directed by Danny Cannon, both of whom are also showrunners and executive producers.

[15][20][21][22] At the 2019 Television Critics Association's annual winter press tour held in February, the series was confirmed to premiere in June 2019.

[26] Additionally, a number of shots were taken in London, including selecting the landmark building Florin Court as the home and neighbourhood of one of the series lead characters.

The website's critical consensus reads: "While intriguing characters and impressive set-pieces make for an engaging spy-thriller, Pennyworth doesn't add much to the greater Batman mythos.

Club, Sam Barsanti gives the program a C, noting: "[Pennyworth] would almost be more entertaining if you changed some of the names and jettisoned the comic book connection entirely—at least then there'd be no distracting questions about why Thomas Wayne has a sister and why he's secretly working for the government instead of becoming a rich doctor back home.

As it stands, though, the show is as entertaining as it is frustrating, feeling sort of like an adaptation of a comic based on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies (with all of the Britishness that implies).

[43] The third season, subtitled The Origin of Batman's Butler, and loosely adapting V for Vendetta, premiered on October 6, 2022, on HBO Max.

[12][25] A tie-in comic of the titular character, set after the events of the third season during the Cold War, was released in August 2021.