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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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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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.
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Yeah, there's something about her.
Sex with me would make that seance seem like routine household chores for her.GreysonWinfield likes this. -
Ok episode 2..............did NOT see that coming at the end. Whew.
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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.
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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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I'd watch Eva Green cheerlead for the Jets. Don't have Showtime but will eventually check it out because of her.
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Eva Green and Tatiana Maslany = the best reasons to watch shows regardless of what's around them. Absolutely amazing performances.NaboCane likes this.
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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.
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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 ***.ToddPhin likes this. -
Is this show losing steam? I haven't watched.
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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. -
Showtime's Penny Dreadful Renewed for (Bigger!) Season 2
http://tvline.com/2014/06/04/penny-dreadful-renewed-season-2-showtime/
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The season is only 8-10 episodes long? Thats nuts. More of a mini-series than a regular show.
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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.ToddPhin likes this. -
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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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.NaboCane likes this. -
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.