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Cargando... Penny Dreadful: The Complete First Seasonpor John Logan (Creator), Coky Giedroyc (Director)
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An erotically charged, profoundly unsettling new saga that completely reinvents literature's most iconic and terrifying characters. Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, and timeless figures from Dracula join a core of original characters in a dark and brutal quest to save a soul, even as they grapple with their own monstrous temptations. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is the team of five heroes banded together to rescue Mina Harker nee Murray from a vampire master.
1. Sir Malcolm Murray, the African explorer.
2. Vanessa Ives, who like the woman from Acts with an unclean spirit has psychic abilities because of her resident demon
3. Ethan Chandler, an American sharpshooter, hired gun, werewolf (the latter trait not much emphasized)
4. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a young physician in need of money to finance his researches
5. Sembene, an African who works as Sir Malcolm's servant but is obviously something more
There are others out of the team but connected to the members:
1. Dorian Gray, a young man enamored of Miss Ives but quite happy to seduce anyone who is available
2. Frankenstein's monster, who, to my joy, is very much Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, angry over his creator's desertion, insistent on having a bride made, well educated in the great English poets (as is Miss Ives' devil)
3. Brona Croft, an Irish prostitute dying of tuberculosis whom Chandler loves and whom Frankenstein has designs on
If you want to know where Dracula is, know that the vampire master is not a courtly European count but a Nosferatu who speaks only in growls and hisses. Very disappointing, that.
Logan has largely succeeded with his classy mix of Masterpiece Theatre sets and costumes, gothic story lines, and aberrant sex and violence. I'm tempted to go through the actors who play the characters and tell you how good they are but there are too many of them. I will give special notice to Eva Green as Vanessa Ives. She had to disrupt a séance in one episode by displaying a small legion of dead and angry spirits. In another, she had to lose her mind and be subjected to the very best Victorian treatment for mental illness, said treatment based on hydrotherapy and what looked like small-scale trepanning. In the penultimate episode, she went through a possession so believable that I feared to watch. ( )