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'Penny Dreadful' on Showtime

Discussion in 'TV, Music and Movies' started by NaboCane, Feb 14, 2014.

  1. NaboCane

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    http://tvline.com/2014/02/14/penny-dreadful-trailer-video-showtime-blood-sex/

    [video=youtube;YFXHfEqMcis]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXHfEqMcis[/video]

    Watch in fullscreen.
     
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  2. NaboCane

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    Anyone watching this? I just saw the first episode; I wasn't very hopeful, but it turned out to have a lot of promise.
     
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  3. GreysonWinfield

    GreysonWinfield Release The Hounds

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    Really liked it, some creepy moments and I like the casting. I wasn't sold on Josh Harnett until I saw it. As for Eva Green, I would do very bad things to her, very bad.
     
  4. NaboCane

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    Yeah, there's something about her.

    Sex with me would make that seance seem like routine household chores for her.
     
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  5. VanDolPhan

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    Ok episode 2..............did NOT see that coming at the end. Whew.
     
  6. Den54

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    Love it!
     
  7. NaboCane

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    YEAH! That **** kept me up for a while. That'll teach me to watch this show right before I intend to go to bed.

    Two ****ed-up things about that: One, I was looking forward to how Proteus would be developed as a character, being the gentle soul that he was. Two, this show already has so much going on (and it's only the second episode!) and now we have to deal with an evil monster too.

    It was great for the shock value, but I thought it was kind of cheap in terms of the arc they're establishing.
     
  8. NaboCane

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    I'd watch Billie Piper do her groceries.
     
  9. VanDolPhan

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    Noticed something interesting for me at the end of this episode. It had big ole Canadian tax credit logos. The only connection I've found is some post production work. Milking those Irish and Canadian tax credits.
     
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  10. ToddPhin

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    Guess I'm in the minority but I'm losing interest quickly. No real grip to it for me.
     
  11. Starry31

    Starry31 Phins and Heels.

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    I'd watch Eva Green cheerlead for the Jets. Don't have Showtime but will eventually check it out because of her.
     
  12. VanDolPhan

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    Eva Green and Tatiana Maslany = the best reasons to watch shows regardless of what's around them. Absolutely amazing performances.
     
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    Don't watch horror/gore, and I don't get pay channels like Showtime, but I love Eva Green. It seems that shes being typecast into these dark roles though, which is too bad.
     
  14. NaboCane

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    This third episode was a ****ing waste of time*. Strange, for a show with only eight installments; you'd think they'd maximize every storytelling opportunity.

    I believe that part of the problem is that there are 4 Directors, each on for two consecutive eps at a time, and therefore there's no cohesive vision. Losing Sam Mendes' participation all the way through the project may yet doom it.

    *except for Billie Piper's fine, fine, naked, humping ***.
     
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    It was thick.:yes:
     
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  16. NaboCane

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    Well. That happened.
     
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    Is this show losing steam? I haven't watched.
     
  18. ToddPhin

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    by "that" do you mean the horrifying scene right before the credits? :lol:
     
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  19. ToddPhin

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    I'm not even sure where the show is headed or what it's trying to accomplish TBH. It seems all over the place.... but then again, it doesn't have my full attention so it might only seem like it's all over the place.
     
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    Exactly. I just don't understand what they are trying to accomplish in an eight-episode season by being all over the place like it is. The whole Mina thing seems more and more like a red herring as it goes on; it's obvious that Brona is going to be the bride of the Frankenstein monster, but I'm simply not the least bit interested in all the ramifications of that; a vampire, an immortal, can be killed by a piece of glass to the back of the head?!

    And the more we see of the Frankenstein monster, the more I know it was a mistake to have him in the show instead of Proteus. Proteus was fresh, interesting, a new perspective on the tired legend, which has been explored every which way it could have been until then. This monster? As cartoonish and one-dimensional as a cliche can be. They traded nuance and fresh exploration of a theme for a scenery-chewing caricature.

    I had such hope after that second episode and the seance scene. But that now seems like an island of excellence in a muddle that has no rhyme nor reason. And it. Just. Doesn't. Go. Anywhere.
     
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    Showtime's Penny Dreadful Renewed for (Bigger!) Season 2

    http://tvline.com/2014/06/04/penny-dreadful-renewed-season-2-showtime/

    This must have been decided ahead of time; that, or the last four eps are outstanding.
     
  22. Den54

    Den54 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Well that last episode went all brokeback. Disappointing.
     
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    The season is only 8-10 episodes long? Thats nuts. More of a mini-series than a regular show.
     
  24. Den54

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    Thoughts on the last episode? It helped to make me forget about the previous one.
    Very dark.
     
  25. NaboCane

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    Very dark. All exposition, which should have happened much earlier, not in the fifth episode (of eight).

    I just don't get what they're doing, It's a good thing there are two compelling leads (green and Dalton) because the storytelling is ****. It's beyond fragmented, it's ****ed beyond all recognition.

    Meanwhile, zero on the other arcs. Which, in the case of the suddenly-out-of-nowhere-homosexual cowboy, is a blessing.
     
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  26. ToddPhin

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    Yup, you said it here.... and having 4 directors is killing the show IMO. It's difficult to get immersed in the movie's world when there's not one singular, consistent vision to uninterruptedly carry you along. This show was destined to be a mess. Like looking at a complex painting done by 4 different artists who don't share the same exact style, touch, and brush stroke-> makes it look unnatural, convoluted, and lacking in proper flow. Too much for the brain to follow.
     
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    Freaky deaky.
     
  28. ToddPhin

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    I stopped watching after Hartnett went all Birdcage on it.

    LOL at the new sig pic BTW.
     
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    This last one was pretty good. Still glacial for a show which only has two more eps this season before we have to wait 10 months for S2.
     
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    At this point, I'll watch the finale just for ****s and giggles and then I'm done. No S2 for me.

    What a waste of a great concept.
     
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    Great! A bisexual cowboy wolf man:pity:.
     
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    Directionless. Scattered. Unfocused. Trite. Predictable. Sophomoric. Hackneyed.

    Horrid.

    I won't be back.
     
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    so do you think it was originally just called Penny errr? :shifty:
     
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    It would have been better off being 'Penny Lane' and a TV series based on 'Almost Famous.'
     
  35. ToddPhin

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    LOL.

    From the first handful of episodes I watched, it felt like I was viewing a movie that was dragging on and on AND ON rather than a TV show. That's what it should've been, a 2 hour movie. At least that way it could've coasted by on entertainment value alone since it doesn't really present the viewer with any type of clear cut resolution to look forward to or expect in order to keep us coming back for more. It's like the creators failed to ask themselves that vital question, "what about the show will compel the viewer to return the following week?". The shallow or novice viewer might think the genre, violence, and grand scale of it alone is enough to hold their attention, but I don't see how that's enough to ensure the show's success.

    On the polar opposite is Hannibal which I'm already 8 episodes into season 2 in just three days because I'm in a constant state of "what's gonna happen next?!" while glued to the anticipation of the main resolution (when and how will Hannibal get caught?) and the individual resolutions of each episode. Hannibal was masterfully done; Penny Dreadful was done while spinning in circles around a baseball bat.
     
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    Penny Dreadful Men Field Burning Questions, Tease Season 2 'Bang-Fest'

    http://tvline.com/2014/07/24/penny-dreadful-season-2-preview-video-hartnett-carney-treadaway/

    Watch the vid.
     
  37. ToddPhin

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    I won't be watching this gobbledygook show next year no matter what they do in season 2.
     
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