Penny Dreadful...With Season 3 announced a while ago, we now have a trailer and you can check it out below. The season will commence on Showtime on 1 May (US).SynopsisSeason three includes a wealth of new and returning stars. Tony® Award winner LuPone (American Horror Story), who guest starred last season as the Cut-Wife, returns... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful S02 E10 – And They Were Enemies (Season Finale)
@HellingsOnFilm reviews and recaps...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSThe werewolf Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) rises angrily and bloody from the dead body of Sembene (Danny Sapani) to find himself still trapped in Madame Kali’s house, much to the relief of Hecate (Sarah Greene) who goes downstairs to watch her mother (Helen McCrory) and Vanessa Ives (Eva Green). Vanessa’s... Continue Reading →
Recap/review: Penny Dreadful S2 E09 – And Hell Itself My Only Foe
@HellingsOnFilm recaps...Nighttime at the Cut Woman’s cottage: Vanessa (Eva Green) and Ethan (Josh Hartnett) are asleep until the latter wakes at the striking of a match: it’s the disfigured Warren Roper (Stephen Lord), gun trained on Mr. Chandler. Roper wakes Vanessa and reveals his horribly scarred face, before making her chain Ethan’s hands behind the... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Memento Mori – S02 E08
@HellingsOnFilm checks out Penny Dreadful - Memento Mori...Morning comes and Lily (Billie Piper) is in bed, kissing a man’s chest and telling him how silly it is that boys grow up. This ‘boy’ won’t. It’s the man she strangled in last week’s episode. Dressing, she deliberately knocks over the house of cards on a table,... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful – Little Scorpion – S2 E07
@HellingsOnFilm declares Little Scorpion was the best episode of Season 2...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSIn Sir Malcolm’s basement, Ethan (Josh Hartnett) and Sembene (Danny Sapani) experience the morning after the night before of Ethan’s transformation into a werewolf, with Sembene telling of the way animals consume and become that which they have consumed. He sees his friend... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Glorious Horrors – S02 E06
@HellingsOnFilm finds this episode of Penny Dreadful a marked improvement...Contains FULL SPOILERSA maid finds the dead body of Sir Malcolm’s estranged wife Gladys, throat cut, after her Madame Kali induced suicide last week. Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) awakes to see Lily (Billie Piper) making breakfast after their night of lovemaking and there is a rare... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful Season 2 Ep 05 – Above The Vaulted Sky
@HellingsOnFilm gives us a recap/review of Penny Dreadful - Above the Vaulted SkyCONTAINS FULL SPOILERSAt the house of Madame Kali (aka Evelyn Poole played by Helen McCrory), the woman herself is tapping away in a ritual on one of her clay figure ventriloquist dummies (there’s the one of Vanessa close by also), breaking open the... Continue Reading →
TV Recap/Review: Penny Dreadful – Evil Spirits in Heavenly Places S2 EP04
@HellingsOnFilm recaps and review the latest Penny Dreadful - Evil Spirits in Heavenly Places...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSVanessa Ives finishes telling the story of the tragic demise of the Cut Woman (from last week’s episode) to Sir Malcolm, Ethan Chandler, Victor Frankenstein, Sembene, and the spy in their ranks Ferdinand Lyle. They now know that the Nightcomers,... Continue Reading →
TV Review/Recap: Penny Dreadful S2 Ep03 – The Nightcomers
@HellingsOnFilm takes a look back at Penny Dreadful S2 EP3 - The Nightcomers...CONTAINS FULL SPOILERSVanessa Ives (Eva Green) finds Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) studying the scorpion sign of blood on the upstairs wooden floor, at Sir Malcolm’s, that Eva had created previously. Ethan understandably wants to know what it is, only to be met with the... Continue Reading →