Wonderful character development!

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Blistering performances.

The Victorian X-men! Vioence, scientist nonsense, superstition, and doubtful morals. Some 40 years ago it would have been a visionary comic book. Today it is just one of many stories, all so uniformly different.

The series had just the right mix out of interesting characters, narrative and pacing in s1 well and then came the SJW agenda. Penny Dreadful is a perfect example how more and more writers loose their ability to write a plot without bringing in their primitive agenda that is en vogue in Hollywood.In this series the more you watch (believe me there will be episodes ) the more you get hammered it in your face in good old stalinistic dogma.1) White men are evil. You can kill them on sight if you like even if they have done nothing ,the show prefers that and potrays you as an emphatic human / demonic being. 2) Men in general are the scum of the earth. Well not if they belong to a minority but otheriwse . The very few good white men know how rotten everyone else is. Contrary women cant do wrong and if they do it is because evil white men made them victims 3) Indigenous people are wise beyond their years, peaceful and kill only if well look at 1) It is so primitive that it hurts everyone with even a modicum of education and wisdom. Its literally spewing the hate behind the mask of a fantasy series.There are other flaws as soon as the series develops like endless pointless dialog and rather overacting by Eva Green. Hollywood and in most of liberal media has sadly developed into an intellectual desert. The design of the series is top notch no doubt about that and most actors do a good job.

Sadly that this TV series had just 3 seasons.i just wanted to see more and more of this awesome TV series..just give to this one a try and you'll be completely attracted by. The actress does everything and it's perfect for this role. It has some mature sexuality , violence , it's horror , it has everything you need to be totally "addicted"

I watched this series on the recommendation of a friend of mine. It had three seasons and a decent beginning, middle and end, which is always commendable. The first season was very good, the plot was an adaptation of the novel "Dracula", with several characters from famous novels (Frankenstein, Dorian Gray etc.) involved in the search for a girl kidnapped by a vampire, which I presumed to be Dracula despite his name will never be mentioned. Dracula has already been taken to the movies or television for dozens of times, so the subject is far from new, but the way it was treated is undoubtedly different. The focus has always been on human characters and their stories, not only on vampires. The plot is complex but not enough for us to get lost in it. Everything gets denser in the second season, which is much more original than the first, with Vanessa, the central character in all the series, being chased by demonic witches who believe she must be the mother of the Antichrist. Its a more intense, stronger story, more capable of surprising and it was an excellent evolution. The third season, for me, was the weakest ... the return to the vampires was a mistake, the introduction to the plot took a lot of time and almost everything happens in four or five episodes. Even so, it gives a coherent end to the series. I enjoyed the way it all ends, but I already anticipated the final and this took the impact it should have had.Concerning the cast, it has a lot of heavy names. Timothy Dalton is a great actor and did an excellent job, very consistent from beginning to end; Eva Green started slowly and sometimes seemed a little cliché, but improved a lot from the middle of the first season and made a growing performance from that moment on; Harry Treadaway was excellent as Dr. Frankenstein, he knew how to give his character idealism and naivete, as a dreamer who did everything the wrong way and ended up disillusioned with the world. Josh Hartnett is very somber as Mr. Chandler, he does a brilliant job, full of strong and rich psychological notes. Rory Kinnear is also of enormous psychological depth, and his role is especially rich because he humanizes over time, in a remarkable transformation. Simon Russell Beale begins very bad, seeming annoying and histrionic, but this will give way to a more contained and dramatic performance. Billie Piper has a weak performance in the first season, but he improves considerably in the second season. Wes Studi and Perdita Weeks only appears in the third season but they do it very well, such as Samuel Barnett and Shazad Latif. Patti LuPone did two seasons, but she did also two distinct characters with great dignity. On the negative side, Christian Camargo was far from being a convincing Dracula, Helen McCrory was a casting error because she never adapted well to her character, Sarah Greene acted well, but her character must have died at the end of the second season, Reeve Carney did a satisfying job, but her character turned out to be much more secondary than it should have been at first glance. So, as you can see, the cast is strong and good, but if there were mistakes, in most cases, they result from failures in the construction and planning of the characters.The series is loaded with strong scenes, gore with blood gushing, babies being slaughtered, human organs gutted or dismembered. Sex scenes are rarer, but when they happen they're strong, and may shock because they can involve blood or gore in some way. Therefore, this series is far from recommendable for sensitive people or a weak stomach. CGI is good and works well, with decadent Victorian London of the post-industrial period appearing in glory, magnificent, full of smoke, factories, dirt, and rot. Overall, sets are in line with the period, as the costumes, with the exception of Perdita Weeks (third season) clothing, which is "too XXI century" to be acceptable here... it's cool and Gothic but it doesn't look historically accurate. Cinematography was also very good, with a gray, dark and decadent look.