Penny Dreadful

2014

Seasons & Episodes

  • 3
  • 2
  • 1

8.2| 0h30m| TV-MA| en
Synopsis

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

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Neal Street Productions

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Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Sam AlMan When I considered watching this TV show, I thought what is it about? and why it got so high rating on IMDB.com?.. I watched all 3 seasons and found that it is kind of enjoyable TV show.. My rating is heavily concentrating on season 2. If I would keep the seasons in order of how enjoyable they were to me I would say: season 2, season 1, season 3 (actually season 3 was not necessary at all to me and season 1 was just a building up for season 2).What I liked about this TV show? mostly the style, then the story of season 2. The style includes the way presenting the atmosphere and the characters, the neat and reasonable physical transformations of some characters. I have to be honest that I've been taking away by the atmosphere and the presentation of the characters in first season and I found the story is slim in that season. The TV show is for mature audience for its severe sexual and violence content.
Gepy Georgian Sadly that this TV series had just 3 seasons.i just wanted to see more and more of this awesome TV series..just give to this one a try and you'll be completely attracted by. The actress does everything and it's perfect for this role. It has some mature sexuality , violence , it's horror , it has everything you need to be totally "addicted"
Filipe Neto I watched this series on the recommendation of a friend of mine. It had three seasons and a decent beginning, middle and end, which is always commendable. The first season was very good, the plot was an adaptation of the novel "Dracula", with several characters from famous novels (Frankenstein, Dorian Gray etc.) involved in the search for a girl kidnapped by a vampire, which I presumed to be Dracula despite his name will never be mentioned. Dracula has already been taken to the movies or television for dozens of times, so the subject is far from new, but the way it was treated is undoubtedly different. The focus has always been on human characters and their stories, not only on vampires. The plot is complex but not enough for us to get lost in it. Everything gets denser in the second season, which is much more original than the first, with Vanessa, the central character in all the series, being chased by demonic witches who believe she must be the mother of the Antichrist. Its a more intense, stronger story, more capable of surprising and it was an excellent evolution. The third season, for me, was the weakest ... the return to the vampires was a mistake, the introduction to the plot took a lot of time and almost everything happens in four or five episodes. Even so, it gives a coherent end to the series. I enjoyed the way it all ends, but I already anticipated the final and this took the impact it should have had.Concerning the cast, it has a lot of heavy names. Timothy Dalton is a great actor and did an excellent job, very consistent from beginning to end; Eva Green started slowly and sometimes seemed a little cliché, but improved a lot from the middle of the first season and made a growing performance from that moment on; Harry Treadaway was excellent as Dr. Frankenstein, he knew how to give his character idealism and naivete, as a dreamer who did everything the wrong way and ended up disillusioned with the world. Josh Hartnett is very somber as Mr. Chandler, he does a brilliant job, full of strong and rich psychological notes. Rory Kinnear is also of enormous psychological depth, and his role is especially rich because he humanizes over time, in a remarkable transformation. Simon Russell Beale begins very bad, seeming annoying and histrionic, but this will give way to a more contained and dramatic performance. Billie Piper has a weak performance in the first season, but he improves considerably in the second season. Wes Studi and Perdita Weeks only appears in the third season but they do it very well, such as Samuel Barnett and Shazad Latif. Patti LuPone did two seasons, but she did also two distinct characters with great dignity. On the negative side, Christian Camargo was far from being a convincing Dracula, Helen McCrory was a casting error because she never adapted well to her character, Sarah Greene acted well, but her character must have died at the end of the second season, Reeve Carney did a satisfying job, but her character turned out to be much more secondary than it should have been at first glance. So, as you can see, the cast is strong and good, but if there were mistakes, in most cases, they result from failures in the construction and planning of the characters.The series is loaded with strong scenes, gore with blood gushing, babies being slaughtered, human organs gutted or dismembered. Sex scenes are rarer, but when they happen they're strong, and may shock because they can involve blood or gore in some way. Therefore, this series is far from recommendable for sensitive people or a weak stomach. CGI is good and works well, with decadent Victorian London of the post-industrial period appearing in glory, magnificent, full of smoke, factories, dirt, and rot. Overall, sets are in line with the period, as the costumes, with the exception of Perdita Weeks (third season) clothing, which is "too XXI century" to be acceptable here... it's cool and Gothic but it doesn't look historically accurate. Cinematography was also very good, with a gray, dark and decadent look.
imizrahi2002 i know the show's been over for a while...and i know it's VERY likely that no one, much less anyone from the show, will ever read this... but what utter bullshit to try and convince me that, 'well...we thought this would be a good ending for the show'. do you think we can't FEEL when something went wrong? something in production slipped out of place...one of the actors didn't want to go on...there was trouble on the set...what EVER...OK. you need to do a crash landing? whatever... just don't lie to us...thanks. it WAS one of the best shows i've ever, in my 66 years, seen. until, suddenly, it was over? i don't mind sad endings. that's not what i'm complaining about. in fact...i've said all i need to. i don't need to defend my position any more than you all, obviously, felt the need to tell the truth...