![]() ![]() Penny Dreadful isn't some vague allusion to the novelettes, more an anthology of them, ripped into papier-mache and fashioned into a rather charming étagère, stuffed with quite the most delectable horrors. It's costing him a fortune.īefore any viewers raise an eyebrow at this dense funeral march of gothic tropes, you'd do well to remember that Victorians weren't ones for underdecoration. Oh, and by the way, the shady young anatomist has a corpse in the corner of his bedsit that's plugged into one of those newfangled electricity generators. In practice, Victor – surname Frankenstein – would rather spend his time intensely contemplating the tantalisingly thin line between life and death. Such dangerous endeavours are much more suited to the likes of belligerent, bloodshot Victor, at least in theory. "A man much more… complicated than he likes to appear." In short, Ethan: take your travelling wild west show, your bottle of bourbon and your arse you could bounce a ha'penny off, and run. "I see a man who's been accustomed to wealth but has given himself to excess and the unbridled pleasures of youth." By now, her eyes are seeping out of the edges of your TV, encroaching on your feature wall. That's the drink," she surmises creepily, eyeballing him like a haunted oil painting stuck in a staring competition with two dots drawn on the opposite wall. "Your eye is steady but your left hand tremors. Her sinister cartoon-cat gaze doesn't falter as she takes the measure of him. "I have a need for a gentleman who's comfortable with firearms and not hesitant to engage in dangerous endeavours," Vanessa tells sharpshooter Ethan (Josh Hartnett) with enormous unblinking peepers. Her talent for conscription, however, is very clear. ![]() We know this because she glares out of sooty windows, mysteriously. Vanessa, naturally, has a few secrets of her own stuffed up her crinoline. If only he'd just open up about his daughter being kidnapped by an ancient Egyptian crypto-crustacean, maybe Mr Lyle wouldn't shoo him and Ives away with an insouciant "tewwibly busy, many papyri to twanslate". We know this because he mutters things like "I've lost something very dear to me" through a stiff upper lip as his eyes wander to the middle distance. This is on account of Sir Malcolm losing something dear to him. Sir Malcolm and Vanessa are on a recruitment drive for plucky types (read: famous characters from 19th-century science fiction) to explore the demi-monde – "A half-world between what we know and what we fear" – which is an elegant euphemism for supernatural monster fighting. Ferdinand, played by Simon Russell Beale with a unique diction that traverses the peaks of high-toff to Bavarian to Jonathan Ross, is studying mysterious hieroglyph tattoos, brought to his attention by Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) and creepy, starey-eyed clairvoyant Vanessa Ives (Eva Green). ![]()
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