Penny Dreadful: Closer Than Sisters (2014)
Season 1, Episode 5
Dreadfully Penny
18 June 2014
Warning: Spoilers
I was slightly enjoying this period series forgiving some of that Twilight'ness. Importantly Frankenstein should have been a German or rather a Dr Jekyll & Hyde creation but that would have been some sort of league rip off. Happily quite glad to see the Proteus mache.

Some other periodic blunders. 5 pound notes that look like a fiver, not that A4 sheet of paper. Rats on shore, but without that barrier and after the plague. Oranges given freely when seated within the theatre. Pet rats in a dog fight, not hissing, biting and digging upon being cornered. Wolves that human hands are then placed into their mouths. 6 shooters having more rounds which automatically reload. Etc, etc.

The seance's painful repetition. Aside getting to this episode. Dreadful obtains her powers from epileptic sex with the devil, wasn't quite all that same froth from a seize'her. But I am finding this plot to be quite questionable to this series intent? Having a person making a deal with the devil, selling their soul for power upon doing his bidding. Only to later pursue others who are also in league with those same demonic forces. Possibly only a pawn in the yin and yawn, Egyptian dayities, those forces of the night joining. Although this picture should lead to her demise, upon her not opening that ninth gate. Painfully related back to the Seance as her former self of who the f..k was Vanessa.

Or otherwise construed as a developed hole here. How can somebody not have another motive when in direct league with darkness, despite of her dreaded Jekyll'ness?

No rating given. Blandly clichéd for the twilight fanclub within some error but overall slightly enjoyable for its settings and actors
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