Penny Dreadful

[zygalski]

Zetan Warlord or Venusian Death Cell could've really saved this.
Showtime missed a trick.

[Watchman]

Wow, that ended with a whimper, didn't it?

[chris watton]

I did really enjoy the first season of this, and have stuck with the next two. I thought Season 1 was a fun, half serious horror romp aimed at adults - like The Extraordinary League of Gentleman (and ladies..) for grown ups.

Within 10 minutes of the first episode of Season 2, I remember telling my wife that this will not get another season. To me, it got too silly and too up itself pretty quickly. I was surprised it was commissioned for a third series, TBH.

So for me, while it was very enjoyable hokum to start with, it went off the rails pretty quickly after S01. For me, at least.

Edited by chris watton on Wednesday 22 June 13:42

[fatandwheezing]

Is season 1 self contained enough to be worth watching on its own? Looking for something to justify nowTV between GoT and walking dead.

[FourWheelDrift]

fatandwheezing said:

Is season 1 self contained enough to be worth watching on its own? Looking for something to justify nowTV between GoT and walking dead.

All 3 series are self contained as each one ends on a potential finish.

[highway]

Shockingly poor ending. Like they ran out of money or the original writers were sacked. Eva Green and Tim Dalton were great. Literally like the budget was pulled after first scripts of season 3 (which was poor from the off) very disappointing

[uncinqsix]

I enjoyed it. Perhaps not quite as good as series 1 and 2, but still excellent. The show was really all about the acting and production values, which to me elevated it above its storyline. Some great performances from Timothy Dalton, Eva Green and especially Rory Kinnear.

[Don Veloci]

I'm thinking they may have filmed some alternative endings based on whether they got a renewal or not.

It all built up to a proper dust up between the wolf and the vamp but it feels like after someone got the nod about cancellation the whimper of an ending was edited in for some sort of closure.

[JJ55]

Just watched the last episode & gutted its properly finished. Didn't realise it had been cancelled.

[vxr8mate]

Agreed, but I don't think it was canceled, more they wanted to draw it to a conclusion.

I genuinely thought we'd see more of Jeckyll and (or) Ethan Vs Dracula.

The end seemed rushed.

A great series but a whimper of an end.

[Pickled]

Started getting very League of Extraordinary gentleman towards the end.

[SlimJim16v]

Must've been cancelled, the last 2 or 3 episodes felt very rushed after the drawn out earlier ones.

[Halb]

Pickled said:

Started getting very League of Extraordinary gentleman towards the end.

If somebody made a programme of that, it'd be fking brilliant.


Film was a pile of st.

[Pickled]

Halb said:

If somebody made a programme of that, it'd be fking brilliant.


Film was a pile of st.

I quite liked the film...

[Halb]

Pickled said:

I quite liked the film...

What did you like about it?

[Pickled]

Halb said:

What did you like about it?

I have no idea why, but I will always watch if its on - probably seen it over 20 times! Maybe its one of those so crap its good films.

[Halb]

Pickled said:

I have no idea why, but I will always watch if its on - probably seen it over 20 times! Maybe its one of those so crap its good films.

I had high hopes for it, and I do love the design, especially the tech of Nemo.
Most of it was just too generic and bland for me, it took some very interesting and well crafted characters and rubbed off all the bits that made them interesting, it didn't make sense to me.
I enjoyed the baddie, when it didn't become too silly.
Hated the shoehorning of the two non-book characters into it.
I rckon HBO could do wonders with that story.

[Pickled]

Halb said:

I rckon HBO could do wonders with that story.

Or give it to Guy Ritchie to remake, I thought he did a great job with (Downey Jr) Sherlock Holmes, and I think it has a similar feel (albeit poorly executed)

[Halb]

I was looking for something on wiki, and look what I found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Dreadful:_City...

[FourWheelDrift]

I think it was mentioned on another thread when rumoured a while back.

This sounds tricky though - Rory Kinnear as Peter Craft, a German pediatrician and the head of the German-American Bund.

Since he was Dr Frankenstein's original reanimation in Penny Dreadful.