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Are You Still Pissed About How Penny Dreadful Ended?
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The season two cast of Penny Dreadful. (Image: Showtime)
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Showtime’s original
series not to be confused with the more recent instalment with Natalie Dormer had a three-season run from 2016-2018. It borrowed its premise from the Alan Moore graphic novel
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, wherein characters from famous English literature serve as protagonists and antagonists.
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By Thomas M. Sipos
Rumors abound that
Penny Dreadful creator John Logan outlined four seasons, but that at the end of Season Two, Showtime decided the third would be the last. Thus Logan condensed two seasons into one. He denies these rumors, yet, like the last season of
Game of Thrones, the third season of
Penny Dreadful feels rushed and incomplete. But despite its flaws, Season Three has its moments and a closure that is both beautiful and profound.
We open several months after Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) defeated Satan by speaking the Verbis Diablo. Feeling that she has forsaken God, she is an emotional wreck. She lives in darkness, windows covered. Months of dirty dishes, pots, and utensils lay strewn about the mansion, upon tables and floors, crawling with insects. She sits on the floor, eating like an animal.