ThoughPennyworthis a show about Batman-adjacent characters, its set far from the streets of Gotham City.
ButThe Crownthis is not.
Were not really moored to history, showrunner Bruno Heller tells EW.
Jack Bannon in ‘Pennyworth’.Credit: Nick Wall/Epix
It’s a gorgeous, richly-decorated box.
But our queen could never behave the way the queen in Pennyworth behaves.
But dont look for direct political allegories inPennyworth.
Any kind of fiction is going to have resonance in the real world.
I think for me, this particular civil war was more a kind of internal conflict, Heller says.
Everyone has a little bit of humanist in them.
And so the fascists in this show, you never really hear much about their actual political aims.
It’s more, they represent the dark side that everyone has to some degree.
We know Alfred will make it to America eventually, and we know Thomas and Martha will marry eventually.
But what will happen to Sykes?
Pennyworthseason 2 premiered this past weekend.
New episodes air Sundays on EPIX.
