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Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 39
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Mixed: 3 out of 39
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Negative: 10 out of 39
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PennyworthYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings
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Jan 9, 2021A great concept for an entertaining show but this series falls short. Has the style, just needs a stronger story.
Still think there is a good story to be told
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[Jack Bannon] is a charming, resourceful and alert performer, and his Alfred — with an aggressively pompadoured widow’s peak that embodies the nervous energy of a generation — is a consistently engaging presence at the center of the series. Bannon is well matched by Emma Corrin as Esme ... Rather than amplifying or enriching each other, the straight-ahead drama and the comic contrivances cancel each other out. It’s harder to take either one seriously in the presence of the other.
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“Pennyworth” is kind of fascinating in that it looks good, the performances are solid, the design is strong … and I just never found a reason to care. Like so much modern TV, every episode is too long, and the slack pacing doesn't help an already slow writing sensibility. There's nothing overly wrong with "Pennyworth," except it never quite justifies its existence.
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The stories are fairly thin, but the look of the show and the charisma of Bannon and some of the supporting players — notably the English singer Paloma Faith as Bet Sykes, a Raven Society enforcer who takes a quick dislike to both Alfred and Esme — cover for that for a while.