New monsters grace the Penny Dreadful season 3 premiere.
Here’s our review.
ThisPenny Dreadfulreview contains spoilers.
Penny Dreadful season 3 episode 1.
Alfred Lord Tennyson died on October 6, 1892.
The main players ofPenny Dreadfulare coming to terms with their own lost loves.
Penny Dreadfulended last season with its main players scattered to the farthest ends of the earth.
Things dont always work out as planned.
Sir Malcolm wanted to put the world of adventure behind him.
Talbot thought his torment would cease at the end of a rope.
Frankenstein found solace in the needle and his creature just wanted to chill.
Lyle has had enough of death.
And no one cleans the meat off a bone like a werewolf.
The inspector has developed an appreciation for the mass murdering cowboy.
Evelyn Pooles daughter knows that once you go wolf, you never go back.
She is a secret passenger on the dusty trail.
But the adventures define Malcolm.
They are his fate and he has not yet reached his final destiny.
He came to the realization that his life cost him his family only after the bill had been paid.
Eva Green gives her emotions free reign as the bottled-in Vanessa.
Little impish smiles of knowing keep popping up on the side of her lips.
All the broken and shunned creatures, someones got to take care of them.
The creature, played by Rory Kinnear, continues to be the most human character on Penny Dreadful.
The former near-freak show attraction lovingly sings a lullaby before snuffing a childs pain.
He has seen enough pain.
The camerawork onPenny Dreadfulcontinues to be masterful and this season promises a much more varied palette.
Darkness and light each hold their own special dangers.
The new season introduces a new literary character, Robert Louis Stevensons Dr. Jekyll (Shazad Latif).
The good doctor went to Cambridge with Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadway) and became fast friends.
They were both outcasts and half-castes, isolated from their peers by their specialized interests and nineteenth century prejudice.
This is creepy in a post-Bill Cosby world.
We know how easy it is to hide a double nature.
Jekyll isnt the only new character to come crawling out of a classic book of horror.
The episode ends as a certain mental health assistant named Renfield first encounters the master, Dracula.
The Day Tennyson Died was directed by Damon Thomas and written by John Logan.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
