Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
AAAHHHHH!!! Creepy dolls with human baby hearts in them! Belch! Stupid witches!
Yes, Penny Dreadful's "Verbis Diablo" improved on last week's season premiere by slowing the story down a bit, allowing the witches to feel more like witches, and introducing a new love triangle twist on the Bride of Frankenstein mythos.
Not that Hecate didn't go nuts on a train and slaughter two parents and their newborn child, but Evelyn's methodical stalking of Ser Malcolm (set up in last season's finale) added a layer of bewitching suspense that straight-up monster attacks just can't. In the premiere, the witches beset upon Vanessa and Ethan in a very similar manner to last year's vampires. In fact, honestly, until Vanessa said that the creatures they faced were "very different" from vampires, I had no idea. I mean, it would make sense that minions of the devil should have a similar look, but the witch attack in the carriage played very much like a vamp ambush.
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AAAHHHHH!!! Creepy dolls with human baby hearts in them! Belch! Stupid witches!
Yes, Penny Dreadful's "Verbis Diablo" improved on last week's season premiere by slowing the story down a bit, allowing the witches to feel more like witches, and introducing a new love triangle twist on the Bride of Frankenstein mythos.
Not that Hecate didn't go nuts on a train and slaughter two parents and their newborn child, but Evelyn's methodical stalking of Ser Malcolm (set up in last season's finale) added a layer of bewitching suspense that straight-up monster attacks just can't. In the premiere, the witches beset upon Vanessa and Ethan in a very similar manner to last year's vampires. In fact, honestly, until Vanessa said that the creatures they faced were "very different" from vampires, I had no idea. I mean, it would make sense that minions of the devil should have a similar look, but the witch attack in the carriage played very much like a vamp ambush.
Continue reading…
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