PENNY DREADFUL | S1

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“God didn’t answer me, but another did.”

Created by: John Logan
Run time: 47-60 Minutes

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Bram Stoker wrote Dracula 120 years ago. Since then vampire mythology has been comprehensively explored in books, movies, television, comics, cartoons, puppetry, and breakfast cereal. I’m kind of over it.

Penny Dreadful has vampires, too. Sweaty pale spindly ones that squirrel away abducted children in damp basements for convenient snacking. That’s cool and everything, but it’s not what keeps me pressing play, Frankenstein is. The relationship between the doctor and his scarred creation is what’s really worth exploring each episode, and I can recommend the show based on this element alone.

But wait, there’s MoorePenny Dreadful features an A-team of fictional Victorian characters, all conveniently in the public domain, who come together to fight (and sometimes cause) evil. The concept is not new, and that doesn’t matter. A story about a league of extraordinary misfits is one worth exploring more than once.

Things to look forward to:

  • a wild séance.
  • jump scares.
  • plenty of gore.
  • a lot of full frontal. Like seriously a lot.
  • a ridiculously promiscuous Dorian Gray.
  • a mysterious and damaged heroine played by Ava Green.
  • Some of the most beautiful lighting ever used in television or film… or real life.

 

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