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Here is our review of Penny Dreadful season 2, episode 6.
SPOILER ALERT:THE VERY NEXT THING YOU READ Just stop now if you didnt see the episode.
Ethan Chandler makes his transformation debut onPenny Dreadful.
It was a great tease but I want to see the werewolf without the tassels.
The little details made all the difference.
But they left more to our imagination than I expected.
I really thought the effects department was going to allow themselves more fun for the first werewolf transformation.
That was a superb show of subtle special effects.
Tonight they let the fangs sprout but kept it cool and classic and ended it in media res.
Penny Dreadful is masterful at underplay.
Penny Dreadfuldidnt underplay Vanessas blood waltz, though.
There were even almost-twin witches circling Vanessa like the ones who ran Dannys Big Wheel off the track.
Penny Dreadful really enjoys getting under the skin.
What got under mine was the blood dripping between Vanessas eyelashes.
I squirmed, great touch, and yet it was very subtle.
A tiny detail that just couldnt be overlooked.
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Timothy Dalton is subtle.
Hes not always so subtle, historically.
Dalton made an aria of his lower registers tonight.
He masterfully blended humor into the completely inappropriate reaction to his wifes death.
The way he dropped his voice when he asked how she died?
Sir Malcolm was concealing his glee and Dalton is teasing us as badly as the werewolf special effects team.
And I love them both for it.
Penny DreadfulandSalem, though both are supernatural thrillers, are completely different takes on the genre.
Yet the two shows have so many similarities.
They really like to scare.
They thrill in the cerebral attack because the brain is properly vulnerable while looking the other way.
Penny Dreadfuldoesnt just rely on the usual suspense-building tricks either.
Dorian Grays coming out party for Angelique was wrought with tension that had nothing to do with terror.
Does he notice that no one is scandalized?
Ferdinand Lyle (Simon Russell Beale) is the luckiest man on Penny Dreadful.
And then Hecate (Sarah Greene) gives him a weapon against her own mother.
Everyone on the show is hiding something, but he is hiding most of all.
Beale is having a ball.
Eva Green can do anything with her eyes.
Vanessa can cast aspersions with a glance.
Shed be great at Bridge but lousy at Poker.
Hell be happy for either.
Rusk is a smug son of a bitch.
He thinks he can appeal to the human conscience but hes met with a lupine lesson in canine cunning.
I just hope he puts the half moon Pinkerton cop to sleep before he gets him on a leash.
Mr. Clair, The Creature (Rory Kinnear) with the warm eyes has a cold touch.
It was like you could see the dollar signs rolling like in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Glorious Horrors was written by John Logan and directed by James Hawes.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
