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By Thomas M. Sipos
In the second season of
Penny Dreadful, feminism, sexual liberation, political correctness, secularism, drug addiction, and religious syncretism expand their influences. Some events in Season Two seem to be an attempt to graft modernity onto Christianity as if they were compatible, even symbiotic. But one can instead interpret these events as modernity s efforts to assault, corrupt, and undermine Christianity.
We last saw Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) transform into a werewolf as two Pinkerton agents were arresting him. He now awakes in the Mariner s Inn, surrounded by savagely torn corpses. In Season One, London was plagued by such murders. It was suggested that Jack the Ripper had returned. Sir Malcolm Murry (Timothy Dalton) suspected vampires, until a police inspector explained that the bodies were