Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

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Penny Dreadful
Genre Drama
Horror
Thriller
Dark fantasy
Historical fantasy
Created by John Logan
Written by John Logan
Andrew Hinderaker
Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Starring Reeve Carney
Timothy Dalton
Eva Green
Rory Kinnear
Billie Piper
Danny Sapani
Harry Treadaway
Josh Hartnett
Helen McCrory
Simon Russell Beale
Patti LuPone
Wes Studi
Theme music composer Abel Korzeniowski
Tom Kitt (series finale)
Opening theme "Demimonde" by Abel Korzeniowski
"A Prayer" by Sophie Meade (series finale)
Composer(s) Abel Korzeniowski
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 27 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive
producer(s)
Pippa Harris
Sam Mendes
John Logan
Karen Richards
Producer(s) James Flynn
Morgan O'Sullivan
Sheila Hockin
Production location(s) Dublin, Ireland
London, England, United Kingdom
Cinematography Xavi Gimenez
Nigel Willoughby
P. J. Dillon
Owen McPolin
John Conroy
Editor(s) Geoff Ashenhurst
Aaron Marshall
Michele Conroy
Christopher Donaldson
Running time 47–60 minutes
Production
company(s)
Desert Wolf Productions
Neal Street Productions
Showtime Networks
Release
Original network Showtime (United States)
Sky Atlantic (United Kingdom)
Original release May 11, 2014 –
June 19, 2016
Chronology
Related shows Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
External links

Penny Dreadful is a British-American horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan, who also acts as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes. The show was originally pitched to several US and UK channels, and eventually landed with Showtime, with Sky Atlantic as co-producer. It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 9 and began airing on television on April 28, 2014, on Showtime on Demand. The series premiered on Showtime in the United States on May 11, 2014, and on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2014. After the third-season finale on June 19, 2016, series creator John Logan announced that Penny Dreadful had ended as the main story had reached its conclusion.

The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century British and Irish Gothic fiction, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Renfield, and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Justine from Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by the Marquis de Sade also appears.

A spin-off series, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, premiered on April 26, 2020.

Contents

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Penny Dreadful episodes
Season Episodes Originally aired
First aired Last aired
1 8 May 11, 2014 June 29, 2014
2 10 May 3, 2015 July 5, 2015
3 9 May 1, 2016 June 19, 2016

[edit] Cast and characters

[edit] Main cast

[edit] Supporting cast

[edit] Introduced in season 1

  • Olivia Llewellyn as Mina Harker, Malcolm's daughter and Vanessa's childhood friend who has been abducted (seasons 1–2).
  • Alex Price as Proteus, a new creation of Dr. Frankenstein's, named after the literary character of the same name, who was killed by the Creature (seasons 1–2).
  • Lorcan Cranitch as Inspector Goldsworthy, of the London police (season 1).
  • Robert Nairne as the Vampire, an evil creature who leads a cabal of undead and who abducted Mina Harker (season 1).
  • Olly Alexander as Fenton, a vampire minion (season 1).
  • Graham Butler as Peter Murray, Malcolm's son, who died accompanying his father on one of his expeditions (seasons 1–2).
  • Noni Stapleton as Gladys Murray, Malcolm's estranged wife and mother of Mina and Peter (seasons 1–2).
  • Alun Armstrong as Vincent Brand, the leader of a troupe of actors in residence at the Grand Guignol (season 1).
  • Hannah Tointon as Maud Gunneson, an actress at the Grand Guignol, and object of the Creature's affection (season 1).
  • Gavin Fowler as Simon, Maud's partner who mistreats the Creature (season 1).
  • David Warner as Abraham Van Helsing, a haematologist and colleague of Frankenstein (season 1).
  • Stephen Lord as Warren Roper, a Pinkerton agent hired to bring Ethan back to the United States (seasons 1–2).

[edit] Introduced in season 2

  • Sarah Greene as Hecate Poole, Evelyn's eldest daughter (seasons 2–3).
  • Nicole O'Neill, Olivia Chenery and Charlotte Beckett as minor witches of Evelyn's coven. (season 2)
  • Douglas Hodge as Bartholomew Rusk, a Scotland Yard police inspector investigating the grisly Mariner's Inn Massacre (seasons 2–3).
  • Jack Hickey as the junior inspector working with Rusk (seasons 2–3).
  • Jonny Beauchamp as Angelique, a mysterious transgender woman who gains Dorian's attention (season 2).
  • David Haig as Oscar Putney, the owner of a struggling wax museum who employs the Creature for his own nefarious reasons (season 2).
  • Ruth Gemmell as Octavia Putney, Oscar's wife who is uneasy about the Creature and treats him cruelly (season 2).
  • Tamsin Topolski as Lavinia Putney, the blind daughter of the Creature's new employers, with whom he develops a specious friendship (season 2).
  • Ronan Vibert as Geoffrey Hawkes, a rich landowner who fell under Evelyn's sway (season 2).

[edit] Introduced in season 3

  • Shazad Latif as Henry Jekyll, a chemist and college friend of Victor Frankenstein.
  • Christian Camargo as Dracula, the brother of Lucifer who fell to Earth to feed on the blood of the living as the first vampire. In London, he takes the guise of kindly zoologist Alexander Sweet to captivate Vanessa.
  • Samuel Barnett as Renfield, Florence Seward's secretary who becomes involved with Dracula.
  • Sebastian Croft and Jack Greenlees as minor vampires serving Dracula.
  • Casper Allpress and Pandora Colin as Jack and Marjorie, the Creature's son and wife from when still alive.
  • Cokey Falkow as Scarman, a gunman in the service of Ethan's father.
  • Jessica Barden as Justine, a homeless, brutalized young prostitute who becomes an acolyte to Lily.
  • Sean Gilder as Franklin Ostow, a marshal in the American West aiding Rusk in the hunt for Ethan.
  • Brian Cox as Jared Talbot, a ruthless, powerful American rancher and the estranged father of Ethan.
  • Perdita Weeks as Catriona Hartdegen, a thanatologist scholar with expert knowledge of the supernatural.

Notable non-recurring cast include Mary Stockley as Victor Frankenstein's mother Caroline, Anna Chancellor as Vanessa's mother Claire, and Frank McCusker as Christopher Banning, a doctor overseeing Vanessa's treatment while institutionalized, all appearing in flashbacks during the first season, as well as Oliver Cotton as Father Matthew, having been requested to perform an exorcism on Vanessa in the first season's penultimate episode.

[edit] Production and development

[edit] Reception

[edit] Critical reception

Season Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic

[edit] Ratings

The series debuted to 872,000 viewers (1.44 {{nbsp}} inserts a non-breaking space character. It's useful for preventing line breaks between words which should not appear on separate lines. million including re-runs). This number does not include the 900,000 viewers who previewed the series on Showtime on Demand and the Showtime app.

[edit] Accolades

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result

[edit] Related media

[edit] Comics

[edit] Spin-off series

Main article: Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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