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.

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