I'm watching Penny Dreadful on DVDs because I don't have cable; so Season 3? Yes, I'm waiting.
With bated breath.
This series has a lot of blood, gore, sex and if that's not for you you're probably not watching it anyway.
That's not why I'm watching it.
As a science fiction/detective fiction author, my touchstones since childhood have been Victorian Era fiction. John Logan's dialog and bringing forth the writing of Victorian era authors' words makes me cry. Every episode. From Mary Shelley to Bram Stoker to Oscar Wilde to Percy Bysshe Shelley to William Blake to Sheridan Le Fanu there are so many touchstones in this series for the fan of Victorian fiction and poetry (whether in the dialogue or in the story line) that you will be absolutely mesmerized. And all the actors? They give it their all.
This is one of the best crafted series I have seen in...well, I can't even think if I have seen one since a very different genre -- science fiction, and that would be Star Trek (because Gene Roddenberry, like John Logan, had a vision).
With bated breath.
This series has a lot of blood, gore, sex and if that's not for you you're probably not watching it anyway.
That's not why I'm watching it.
As a science fiction/detective fiction author, my touchstones since childhood have been Victorian Era fiction. John Logan's dialog and bringing forth the writing of Victorian era authors' words makes me cry. Every episode. From Mary Shelley to Bram Stoker to Oscar Wilde to Percy Bysshe Shelley to William Blake to Sheridan Le Fanu there are so many touchstones in this series for the fan of Victorian fiction and poetry (whether in the dialogue or in the story line) that you will be absolutely mesmerized. And all the actors? They give it their all.
This is one of the best crafted series I have seen in...well, I can't even think if I have seen one since a very different genre -- science fiction, and that would be Star Trek (because Gene Roddenberry, like John Logan, had a vision).