Eva Green is outstanding and mesmerizing. I wish this Penny Dreadful didn't have to end. Stellar performances, cinematography and design. Of course who doesn't love Josh Harnett? And hello Patti LuPone!!! Also, the casting and personalities were tremendous!

Finally getting around to watching this on Netflix...If you like movies or shows about monsters and monster hunters/fighters, this is right up your alley. I've only watched 3 episodes, so far, and I am loving it. The only aspect of the show I dislike is the casting of Billie Piper, whose attempt at an Irish accent is like nails on a blackboard. I've seen her in a couple things, and I just don't like her. However, the other characters are so intriguing that I can ignore her when she's on screen. This show has a fair amount of graphic sex and violence; the graphic sex stuff isn't my cup of tea, but thankfully, someone invented fast-forward. The episode "Demimonde" is particularly loaded with cringeworthy content. So far, the storyline has jumped back and forth in time quite a bit, so it can be difficult to follow at times; I just go to a fandom site when I get too confused (beware spoilers in those sites, though, if you don't like knowing ahead of time what will happen). The costumes and sets are very well done. The seedy side of old London is as seedy as it gets. The best thing about the show are the characters & how they've been brought together; for those who have read the classics of horror, or are even just familiar with the modern re-tellings, characters from Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. have been brought to cross paths with each other, along with some unknowns added. Dorian Gray and Vanessa Ives are my favorites, but every character other than Brona is a pleasure to watch and hear. I've peeked at some spoilers [can't seem to watch anything anymore without doing that], and I am eagerly anticipating the story progression.

The Victorian X-men! Vioence, scientist nonsense, superstition, and doubtful morals. Some 40 years ago it would have been a visionary comic book. Today it is just one of many stories, all so uniformly different.

Very slow and with seemingly very little direction. The premise of the show was very intriguing to me so I kept sticking with it but man is it a slow burn. That'd be okay to me if I felt there was more of a reason for it. Maybe I missed some of it because eventually I was watching with very long breaks in between episodes and half the time I was watching I'd be on my phone. I do think I gave it a fair shake though and it just wasn't for me. After a while I figured I had to just finish it because I was already a season and a half invested so I did but I didn't enjoy it.