Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful è una serie televisiva statunitense e britannica di genere horror, ideata da John Logan e trasmessa su Showtime. Ethan Chandler è un esibizionista americano molto abile nell’uso di armi da fuoco, anche per questo viene assunto da Vanessa Ives che gli affida un lavoro notturno. In realtà la donna assieme a Sir Malcolm Murray è coinvolta nella caccia ad una strana creatura che ha rapito la figlia di Sir Malcolm, Mina Murray. Ethan rimane un po’ stranito dagli eventi, ed ha qualche perplessità se continuare o meno con la coppia. Lui è maggiormente interessato a scoprire la natura di questi esseri, si mette così in contatto con il dottor Victor Frankenstein. Victor ha generato una creatura umana dalla mente infantile, Proteo a cui fa da padre, ma che viene ucciso dal suo primogenito, abbandonato da Victor alla nascita, conosce prevalentemente rabbia e odio.
Creato da: John Logan |
Genere: Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Dramma | Mistero | Action & Adventure |
http://www.sho.com/penny-dreadful
Numero di stagioni: 3
Numero di episodi: 27
Data prima messa in onda: 2014-05-11
Data ultima messa in onda: 2016-06-19

Approfondimenti

This is not the first time that Billie Piper played a prostitute, she previously portrayed "Bel [...]	D
This show marks the first continuous, lead role in a television series for Eva Green and Josh H [...]	D
The manner in which Vanessa sizes up and breaks down Ethan Chandler during their first meeting [...]	D
The show used many metaphors to point out the hidden or dual nature of the main characters. One [...]	D
Helen McCrory (Evelyn Poole) and Alex Price (Proteus) played a villainous alien mother and son [...]	D
Eva Green is the only series regular to have scenes with dialogue with every other series regul [...]	D
Sam Mendes originally planned to direct episodes, but schedule conflicts prevented him from doi [...]	D
The first and last episode are directed by Spanish directors.	D
Patti LuPone previously played another character named Joan on American Horror Story (2011). Sh [...]	D
Though the Grand Guignol Theatre was primarily a French institution, there was a British Grand [...]	D
Sarah Greene stated in an interview, that the make-up for Hecate and the other witches' Nightco [...]	D
Danny Sapani, Billie Piper, Timothy Dalton, David Warner, and Helen McCrory and Alex Price have [...]	D
According to John Logan, Dorian Gray's entire admittedly-anachronistic look came from Reeve Car [...]	D
Simon Russell Beale based his accent for his character, Ferdinand Lyle, on the accent of the re [...]	D
The language used in season two (Verbis Diabolo) is a fictional amalgam of Aramaic, Ancient Gre [...]	D
In the season three opener, when Vanessa visits the museum, the two animals that she views clos [...]	D
Among the pictures hanging at Dorian Gray's house, there is one known portrait of FrÃ©dÃ©ri [...]	D
Penny Dreadful is an old term used during the nineteenth century to refer to cheap popular seri [...]	D
Similarities to the original Dracula novel: Dracula acts more as a permeating force throughout [...]	D
Hecate Poole, the witch who pursues Ethan Chandler in seasons two and three, shares her name wi [...]	D
The Grand Guignol (in London as depicted in the show) is not a real theatre. It was constructed [...]	D
Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Douglas Hodge appeared in Mansfield Park (2007).	D
The sÃ©ance back-bending scene was filmed in three different segments: the first was on set w [...]	D
In every episode, the phrase "and then?" is used at least once.	D
The shows boasts four cast members, who appeared in several James Bond films. Timothy Dalton pl [...]	D
As creator John Logan had never written a television series before, he did not produce a specul [...]	D
When the director scheduled to direct the finale of season three had to back down, the producer [...]	D
Ethan never learns about the resurrection of Brona as Lily, even though he and Victor keep work [...]	D
Vanessa Ives is shown to be writing a constant stream of letters to Mina Harker (one of the pro [...]	D
This marks the second time that Anna Chancellor has played the mother to one of Eva Green's cha [...]	D
In this show, Dr. Victor Frankenstein likes to quote the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Sh [...]	D
Ethan Chandler's (Josh Hartnett's) real name is revealed to be Ethan Lawrence Talbot. This is a [...]	D
Billie Piper and Eva Green have worked with Matt Smith.	D
Eva Green asked for her last scene to shoot not to be Vanessa's death but something else, becau [...]	D
John Logan wrote the role of Evelyn Poole, a.k.a. Madame Kali, specifically for Helen McCrory, [...]	D
In season two, episode eight, "Memento Mori", after Sir Malcolm regains his power, you can see [...]	D
Frankenstein's monster sometimes uses the names "Caliban" or "John Clare". Caliban, the name fi [...]	D
Harry Treadaway (Dr. Victor Frankenstein) and Douglas Hodge (Bartholomew Rusk) were both born i [...]	D

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Frase

John Clare: True evil is, above all things, sedu [...]	D

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Stagioni

N	Titolo	Soggetto	Data della prima messa in onda	Numero di episodi
1	Stagione 1	Un'improbabile banda di eroi in cerca di una donna scopre che nelle strade buie della Londra vittoriana si annidano terrificanti forze soprannaturali.	2014	8	D
2	Stagione 2	Sir Malcolm e la sua cerchia proseguono la battaglia contro le forze occulte, mentre Evelyn Poole mette gli occhi su Vanessa ed Ethan fa i conti con la sua vera identità.	2015	10	D
3	Stagione 3	Le avventure soprannaturali continuano: Ethan e Sir Malcolm si spingono in Nuovo Messico, mentre Vanessa deve vedersela con un demone sanguinario a Londra.	2016	9	D