Skipping the spooky sound effects or “gotcha” scares is like staging a farce in a loft without doors. To be fair, horror depends on some of these conventions. But the scene also serves as a worrisome reminder that the show is trafficking in some fairly shopworn plot points. ![]() The accusations that spill out – of adultery, child abandonment and worse on Sir Malcolm’s part – are meant to serve as a tipping point in “Penny Dreadful,” a moment when the inchoateįorces of evil start peering into our heroes’ window. Suspect will give some viewers the willies and some the giggles. A medium arrives,Īnd what was designed to be a good-natured divertissement devolves into a six-minute growling, cussing, writhing, narrative-developing tour de force from Eva Green (who plays the heretofore prim Vanessa) that I About halfway through the episode, Vanessa and Sir Malcolm’s investigations lead them to a party being held by a fey Egyptologist named Ferdinand Lyle. “Séance,” the limits-testing second episode of “Pennyĭreadful,” is no exception. ![]() It’s pretty much a truism that séances in real life are never a big deal while séances in pop culture are never not a big deal. NotĮnough to break any mirrors or conjure any succubi or anything, just enough to have some other friends leave early, muttering about that “weird acting a fool in the basement.” As anyone who ever had a friend with a Ouija board in high school can tell you, there was invariably at least one party that got a little … discombobulated thanks to said friend’s appearance.
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