The concept of a show bringing together some of literature’s most famous monsters sounded a bit ridiculous on paper. But in execution, Showtime‘s "Penny Dreadful" has been a big hit, and season three is coming and promising more spooky drama.
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Lead stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green return to the series, and this new trailer prepares viewers for bloody thrills to come. Here’s the official synopsis:
This season on PENNY DREADFUL, Tony® Award-winning star Patti LuPone (American Horror Story), who guest starred last season as the Cut-Wife, returns as a series regular in the new role of Dr. Seward, an American therapist who treats Vanessa (Eva Green) with an unconventional new approach. Wes Studi (Hell On Wheels) joins as a series regular as Kaetenay, an intense, enigmatic Native American with a deep connection to Ethan (Josh Hartnett) who also becomes an ally to Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton). The third season also adds Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Henry Jekyll (Shazad Latif). Other guest stars include Screen Actors Guild® Award nominee Christian Camargo (DEXTER®, The Hurt Locker) as Dr. Alexander Sweet, a zoologist who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Vanessa; Sam Barnett (2012, Jupiter Ascending) as Dr. Seward’s mysterious young secretary; and Jessica Barden (The Outcast, Far from the Madding Crowd) as Justine, a young acolyte to Lily (Billie Piper) and Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), and Perdita Weeks (THE TUDORS), as Catriona Hartdegan, a scholar with expert knowledge of the supernatural. Simon Russell Beale returns as Dr. Ferdinand Lyle. Rory Kinnear (as The Creature) and Harry Treadaway (as Dr. Frankenstein) also star.
"Penny Dreadful" is back on May 1st. Watch below.
As much as I enjoy the show, it\’s starting to fall into common territory and I was genuinely worried it would make it to a third series renewal because of it. The biggest issue I have noted is that it seems to be dumping far too many characters into the active narrative at once. Granted, it killed off a portion of those previously but even now, looking at the cast list it seems like it\’s destined to become overcrowded and run counter to what made it so fascinating in its beginning.