“The time came when I learned my curse was also something of a blessing. I learned to make use of the gifts I had been given. Will you do the same?” – Vanessa Ives
In “Penny Dreadful” Season 1, Eva Green turned heads as the enigmatic Vanessa Ives, a woman haunted by darkness and desired by demons in Victorian London. She is to be “the mother of evil.” It is her destiny…
But not if she can help it.
Rather than submit to evil, Vanessa stands against the darkness with her partner, Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett), an American with some hairy secrets of his own. And although the quest to save Mina Murray is over, Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) also remains a player in the war against the monsters of another age.
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In Showtime’s newest teaser trailer for “Penny Dreadful” Season 2, Vanessa challenges one of her compatriots to use their curse as a blessing while we catch a glimpse of the immortal Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), Caliban (Rory Kinnear) aka Frankenstein’s Monster, and possibly the Monster’s Bride…
“Penny Dreadful” Season 1 will run as a marathon on Showtime on New Year’s Eve. The second season will premiere in 2015. Let the spiders crawl where they will…
