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Penny Dreadful Says Goodbye 

At the risk of sounding like an ungrateful, petulant child, I have basic trust expectations of the shows I wholly embrace. I’ve been burned so often that the list of shows I’m all-in with has grown shorter and shorter. With most shows, I try to be a casual viewer as…

The First Look at Penny Dreadful Season 3 

[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] We’re almost here! Penny Dreadful is the show that nearly broke me last summer, and I’m so glad they’re almost back. If the premiere is any indication, this is still one of the most beautifully crafted series running right now–from the words to the sets to…

Penny Dreadful “Little Scorpion” 

Apparently, to know Vanessa Ives is to want to protect her from harm and evil. She’s got her cadre of protectors — although Sir Malcolm isn’t doing the best job right now, because he’s under the influence of Evelyn Poole. Lyle, while still technically beholden to Ms. Poole as well,…

Penny Dreadful Preview: “Little Scorpion” 

[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] This week’s Penny Dreadful is hands down my favorite episode of the series so far, and it does not at all help my Eva Green and Josh Hartnett problem. I’m guessing it won’t help yours, either. After last week’s two steps forward one step back between…

Penny Dreadful “Glorious Horrors” 

Is it weird that I like Rusk? Like, really like him? He’s a serious threat to Ethan, but I feel like his interest in what happened at the Mariner’s Inn and whatever he thinks about Ethan’s role in that massacre, it makes Ethan all the more motivated to remember what…

Penny Dreadful “Verbis Diablo” 

Ferdinand Lyle has always been a funny little man, but he’s wealthy and a wealth of information, so his strangeness is tolerated. His job at the British Museum, as well as his connections through marriage, make him valuable. Society seems to put up with his eccentricities because he’s harmless, but…

Penny Dreadful “Fresh Hell” 

“You can’t change who you are no matter who you save.” Mina’s dead. The vampire is dead. But as Vanessa tries to remind Ethan, the war is not over. Something else is coming, something they can’t hunt because it’s Sir Malcolm, and Dr. Frankenstein, and Ethan Chandler, and Vanessa Ives…