'Atmospheric and wonderfully acted, but lacks the scares and operatic depth of the original.' Read TheFienPrint's review of 'Penny Dreadful: City of Angels':
, which ostensibly took the sensationalistic horror tropes of Victorian "penny dreadful" books and gave them a rapturous prestige TV polish. The series brought new narrative complexity and psychological — and especially psychosexual — richness to a pastiche of familiar characters, from Frankenstein's monster to Dr. Jekyll to myriad interconnected vampires, werewolves and witches.
Four bodies have been found in the Los Angeles river basin, bodies mutilated in ritual fashion and accompanied by the scrawled phrase "Te Llevas Nuestro Corazon Tomamos El Tuyo" . It's obvious why Tiago has been put on this case, which seems to relate to the construction of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, an ambitious piece of urban planning set to decimate one of L.A.'s many ethnic enclaves.
is or what it's trying to generate from viewers. It's definitely not scary or disturbing. It's not especially mysterious, because if there are stakes for what will happen if Michener and Tiago don't solve the murder, the series forgets about them for episodes at time. I initially thought this was a six-episode series and got to the sixth episode without having a clue of what I was hoping or expecting to have resolved.
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