Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

TV Series
2020
18
1h

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

11K

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Dark Fantasy Period Drama Crime Drama Fantasy History Horror Mystery Thriller

When a grisly murder shocks Los Angeles in 1938, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the troubled history of the city.When a grisly murder shocks Los Angeles in 1938, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the troubled history of the city.When a grisly murder shocks Los Angeles in 1938, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the troubled history of the city.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

11K

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POPULARITY

3,323

152

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- 2 nominations total

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"Florence Moore," the young girl who was kidnapped, dismembered and murdered, is based on the real case of Marion Parker, a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped, dismembered and murdered in Los Angeles in December 1927.

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Featured in The View: Nathan Lane #2 (2020)

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4/10

A missed opportunity......

What the hell is this? That was my first reaction upon seeing the US version of "Penny Dreadful".

Aside from sharing the same name as the original it has little in common with it. Penny Dreadful was an encyclopedic trip into the world of monsters and the supernatural. A homage to a time of classic horror and Gothic writers like Stoker and Shelly.

What you get here, is yet another politicised drama with racial overtones, that I quickly found preachy, cliched and ultimately, tiresome.

The US has its own rich history of horror writing in the form of Poe and Lovecraft. These and other works could have been explored in an anthology but instead you get this tedious offering.

A missed opportunity, to say the least. 4/10.