Penny Dreadful. Season 2

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Call Number: Blu-ray TV Penny Season 2
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 2-week checkout	Blu-ray TV Penny Season 2	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 2-week checkout	Blu-ray TV Penny Season 2	2-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program on the Showtime Network.
Widescreen.
Special features: Behind the scenes featurettes; video production blogs; character profiles.
Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Simon Russell Beale, Helen McCrory, Reeve Carney, Billie Piper, Rory Kinnear.
Vanessa Ives and Ethan Chandler are forming a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm, Dr. Frankenstein, and Sembene, unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray, the Creature and Brona are all waging battles of their own.
Blu-ray, widescreen; TRUEHD 5.1 (English), Dolby 2.0 stereo (Spanish); requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Horror in Victorian London submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 17, 2016, 2:18pm Warning: spoilers.

Season two picks up the story line almost immediately after where the first season ends. Sir Malcom buries the daughter he was unable to save, only to return to London and find that Vanessa Ives has encountered a new evil that their team must now battle.
Despite the name, “Penny Dreadful” is anything but. The science fiction/fantasy series from Showtime and Sky gathers characters and other elements from 19th century literature, along with other 19th century persona and phenomenon into a complex drama.

Our main characters include Vanessa Ives (played by Eva Green of “Casino Royale” and “Dark Shadows”), who occasionally becomes possessed by a demon and so is able to converse with and see supernatural beings when no one else can, and Sir Malcolm Murray (played by former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton). Their team includes Sembene (Danny Sapani) who came to Britain from Africa to work for Murray; Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway); and Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett), an American sharpshooter running from his own criminal past, likely caused by his losing control of himself when he turns into a werewolf during the full moon.

During own heroes’ adventures (or most often, misadventures), we meet characters from other 19th century fiction, including Frankenstein’s monster (who has asked the doctor to create a wife for him, so he will no longer be alone in the world), and Dorian Gray, who is infatuated with more than one of our main characters.

The name “penny dreadful” refers to horror stories printed onto cheap paper and sold for a penny in Victorian Britain. As the show is set in Victorian London and depicts a great deal of blood and gore, the name is quite apt.