Showtime has released the Season Premiere of Penny Dreadful. Watch it, below.
Theres high expectations for the second season of Showtimes Victorian horror series, Penny Dreadful. The first eight episodes were often stunning, with beautiful photography, no shortage of bloodshed and amazing work by Eva Green. Now that the ensemble has truly come together in a sense, understanding the darkness that which resides within, it seems theyll take on a more mystical atmosphere. Helen McCrorys larger presence as Madame Kali indicates such. She shows up in just the first, wintry scene of the episode and asserts a witchy dominance over Vanessa Ives.
Penny Dreadfuls second season finds Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) and Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) forming a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr. Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), and Sembene (Danny Sapani), unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), the Creature (Rory Kinnear) and Brona (Billie Piper) are all waging battles of their own. Two-time Tony® Award winner Patti LuPone will guest star as a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessas past. Helen McCrory returns as Evelyn Poole (a.k.a. Madame Kali), the seductive spiritualist who will pose a unique threat to our protagonists this season, along with Simon Russell Beale, who is back as eccentric Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle. Additional guest stars include Douglas Hodge as a Scotland Yard investigator; Sarah Greene as Pooles powerful daughter, Hecate; and Jonny Beauchamp as a man with a singular past.
The series will premiere May 3rd on Showtime, which may be preferable as the online version is edited to some degree.
