'Pennyworth' is a rare prequel where knowing the ending makes it better

There are two ways to watch Pennyworth on Epix. 
The first is to take it at face value as a television show about a dashing former soldier starting his postwar life as a security consultant and running headfirst into a dark, sexy conspiracy at the heart of London. The second is to recall that Pennyworth acts as an origin story for Batman's butler and revel in that fact at every possible moment. 
The second way is much, much more fun.
Unlike Gotham, the now-finished Batman prequel serie