• Director(s)

    Various

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Action, Crime, Drama

  • Cast

    Jack Bannon, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson

TV Show

Pennyworth

PENNYWORTH is an action crime drama series; in this episode, Pennyworth tries to uncover the circumstances of the death of an elderly married couple.

PENNYWORTH is an action crime drama series; in this episode, Pennyworth tries to uncover the circumstances of the death of an elderly married couple.

  • Director(s)

    Various

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Action, Crime, Drama

  • Cast

    Jack Bannon, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson

strong language, violence, bloody images
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
Scenes of strong violence include shootings, punchings, stabbings and a throat slitting all with accompanying blood spurts and bloody aftermath detail.
language
Use of strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('bitch') and milder terms (for example, 'tosser', 'sod', 'bollocks', 'bloody hell', 'God' and 'damn').
injury detail
A teenage girl and her parents are seen covered in blood with her holding a bloody, dripping knife. After a man is repeatedly punched, his face is visible with strong bloody detail on it. A baby is splattered with blood after a violent incident.
additional issues
References are made to drug misuse particularly LSD and in one scene, a crowd of people dance around as if in a drug induced trance. A woman is said to be part of an organised sex trafficking ring. There are moments of moderate threat such as a schoolgirl being held against her will and lifted off the ground by her neck.
very strong language, strong violence, injury detail
Classified Date:
19/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
People are shot, repeatedly stabbed, and a woman's throat is slashed in scenes which also include blood spurts.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), as well as strong language ('f**k'), and milder terms (for example, 'bastard', 'bugger', 'shit', 'bloody', 'Christ', 'God', 'Jesus', 'damn', 'hell').
injury detail
A stabbed man coughs up blood, and there are also scenes featuring people with bloodstained bodies and clothes following scenes of violence.
additional issues
The episode also contains moderate threat, including knife threat, moderate verbal sex references, and references to mind control drugs.
very strong language, strong bloody images
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
Infrequent use of very strong language ('c**t') is accompanied by frequent strong language ('f**k'), moderate bad language ('prick') and milder terms such as 'bollock', 'git', 'bloody', 'shit', 'arse' and 'God'.
injury detail
Scenes include characters soaked in blood after violent incidents. A woman is stabbed and lays in a pool of blood on the floor.
additional issues
Moments of moderate violence include stabbings and fight scenes. References are made to a man regularly beating his wife. There is moderate threat throughout. Verbal sex references are also moderate and include mentions of adultery. People are seen committing violent acts under the influence of a drug.
strong language, violence
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man under the influence of a fictional behaviour-altering drug strangles and stabs his wife. There is brief, moderate aftermath bloody detail.
language
There is strong language (‘f**k’, ‘motherf**ker’), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘bloody’, ‘bastard’, ‘balls’, ‘shit’, ‘bugger’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘bollocks’, ‘arse’, ‘God’, ‘hell’ and ‘Jesus’.
additional issues
There is moderate threat. There are moderate sex references, including a man’s comments about a woman he slept with asking him to call her dirty names in bed. There is a passing, undetailed reference to a man’s involvement in a sexual assault.
strong language, violence, bloody images
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
There are shootings which result in moderately bloody injuries. A man has flashbacks to attacking his wife while under the influence of drugs, pushing her against a wall and stabbing her; we do not have clear sight of the knife going in. Characters are grabbed and dragged away by others.
language
There is strong language ('f**k') along with milder terms which include 'son of a bitch', 'bloody', 'bleeding', 'God', 'damn'. 'Jesus'
injury detail
There is brief sight of a woman with blood splashed over her face and clothing, holding a bloody knife. We occasionally see small amounts of blood in the aftermath of violence.
additional issues
Characters are threatened at gunpoint by masked men. A man is gagged and bound by captors. A woman smokes what appears to be a marijuana joint. There are undetailed verbal references to LSD misuse. A character puts droplets of a fictional mind control drug in the drink of another; he later experiences hallucinations. We see characters in bed together after implied sex; there is no nudity. A character makes reference to the impact of British colonialism on its subjects.
strong language, violence
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
There are scenes of strong violence in which characters are stabbed and shot with bloody aftermath detail. After a woman is stabbed, a man stands on her chest and she struggles to breathe.
language
Use of strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('twat') and milder terms such as 'shit', 'bloody', 'git' and 'piss'.
additional issues
Moments of moderate threat include ones directed towards a baby. There are mild sex references, post coital scenes and characters kiss passionately.
strong language
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
Strong language ('f**k') is used, as are milder terms including 'bollocks', 'bastard', 'arse', 'bloody', 'shite', 'piss', 'Christ', 'hell' 'God' and 'damn'.
additional issues
A man runs to save a child who has stepped on a landmine in a scene of threat, and in other sequences people are held at gunpoint, or forced to endure fantastical psychological torture for brief stints. Moderate violence includes people being stabbed, and characters trading crunchy punches during brief hand to hand bouts. Blood is visible on a woman's clothes after she has been attacked. Mild sex references occur infrequently. There is a passing implied reference to drugs a man took which caused him to hallucinate.
strong language
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is frequent use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('twat', 'wanker', 'prick', 'bastard', 'bollocks', 'shite', 'Jesus', 'Christ', 'God', 'damn' and 'morons').
additional issues
There are also scenes of moderate violence and threat, such as bouts in which charges of coloured electricity are blasted between characters with fantastical powers and occasional undetailed shootings. Bloody images occur in the aftermath of violence, including the body of a man impaled with several knives. Mild sex references come in the form of post coital scenes and mention of a woman's pregnancy. Brief references are made to drugs and people under the effects of unnamed substances.
strong language, violence, bloody images
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
Strong violence includes bloody shootings, and a scene in which a person's body is turned to ash after being electrocuted. There are also fight scenes featuring crunchy punches and the use of weaponry, included improvised objects such as bottles.
language
There is strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('wanker', 'shit', 'ass', 'bastard', 'arsehole', 'bugger', 'bloody', 'hell', 'God' and 'damn').
injury detail
Some scenes contain smears of blood after violent events, including a body leaving a trail of blood after its dragged down a long corridor.
additional issues
Characters are held at gunpoint and kidnapped, including a young girl. Sex references are mild. There are also references to an unknown drug which is depicted as being used to lace bottles of milk on a delivery truck.
strong language, injury detail, violence, threat
Classified Date:
25/09/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
Scenes of strong violence include bloody shootings, beatings and fight scenes.
threat and horror
Characters become violent and aggressive after being drugged with a fantastical drug. A possessed baying mob gather outside an apartment block with their faces and clothes covered in blood.
language
Use of strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('slut') and milder terms such as 'piss', 'bloody', 'bugger', 'bollocks', 'bastard', 'Jesus', 'God' and 'Christ'.
injury detail
A man's head partly explodes when he is shot causing blood and gore to spurt, and a woman rips off a crazed man's leg and uses it to beat him. There are blood spurts and bloody detail in the aftermath of violence.
additional issues
There are infrequent moderate sex references.
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  • Classified date

    19/09/2023

  • Distributor

    Warner Bros Entertainment UK Ltd

  • Language

    English