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Despite stumbling a bit out of the gate, Penny Dreadful's Season 2, perhaps due to the longer episode order, was able to pick things up dramatically in its second half and deliver unto us fresh and morbid look at a haunted surrogate family crumbling to bits under their own dark secrets. And while Eva Green never had the opportunity, story-wise, to match her amazing and raw Season 1 performance, she still proved once again to be one of the most compelling forces on modern TV.
At first, Season 2 seemed to be repeating a lot of beats from the show's freshman year. Yes, more dark forces were after Vanessa with the intent of making her the Devil's kept and bound love, but there wasn't quite enough there to distinguish things from Season 1. Nothing notable so that things wouldn't feel like Season 1B. The true, pale form of the "Nightcomers" resembled vampires so much that I thought they were vampires until it was explained otherwise. Likewise, Evelyn Poole's talk of the dark "Master" seemed to awkwardly grate against the shadowy unseen man referred to as the "master" last year.
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Despite stumbling a bit out of the gate, Penny Dreadful's Season 2, perhaps due to the longer episode order, was able to pick things up dramatically in its second half and deliver unto us fresh and morbid look at a haunted surrogate family crumbling to bits under their own dark secrets. And while Eva Green never had the opportunity, story-wise, to match her amazing and raw Season 1 performance, she still proved once again to be one of the most compelling forces on modern TV.
At first, Season 2 seemed to be repeating a lot of beats from the show's freshman year. Yes, more dark forces were after Vanessa with the intent of making her the Devil's kept and bound love, but there wasn't quite enough there to distinguish things from Season 1. Nothing notable so that things wouldn't feel like Season 1B. The true, pale form of the "Nightcomers" resembled vampires so much that I thought they were vampires until it was explained otherwise. Likewise, Evelyn Poole's talk of the dark "Master" seemed to awkwardly grate against the shadowy unseen man referred to as the "master" last year.
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