12-26-2020, 03:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-26-2020, 03:50 AM by mordant.)
What TV are you Currently Watching?
What TV are you Currently Watching?
Penny Dreadful on Showtime (gothic horror / drama). We got a 30 day free trial for Showtime, so decided to binge watch this and see how far we got. We're on season 3, so I guess it's fair to say we very much liked it.
You have to get past the ridiculous premise as the world building is littered with late 19th century characters from British horror literature (it's set in 1892). With disbelief suspended for that, and acknowledging that these characters are meant as archetypes, we found this to be perceptively written and incredibly well cast and acted, particularly by the lead, French actress Eva Green. She chews up the scenery (in a good way) playing a woman haunted by demons, at times to the point of madness. Most major characters explore the themes of good and evil, light and darkness, and the internal struggle between them, and the quest to understand the things about us that make us not fit in and make peace with our personal guilt / regrets, all while trying to make sense of the world. There are memorable characters and excellent production values. If, like my wife, you like horror, or like me, don't mind it ... highly recommended.
Apart from that, Ms Green is new to me but is one of the finer current screen actors I've seen. She is a true chameleon, credibly going from stunning raven beauty to tormented wreck with seeming ease -- but never overdoing it somehow. I'd commend anything with her in it as worthy of consideration. Her current project, just released, is a feature film, Proxima, a psychological drama about a woman juggling the responsibilities of mother and astronaut training for a Mars mission.
You have to get past the ridiculous premise as the world building is littered with late 19th century characters from British horror literature (it's set in 1892). With disbelief suspended for that, and acknowledging that these characters are meant as archetypes, we found this to be perceptively written and incredibly well cast and acted, particularly by the lead, French actress Eva Green. She chews up the scenery (in a good way) playing a woman haunted by demons, at times to the point of madness. Most major characters explore the themes of good and evil, light and darkness, and the internal struggle between them, and the quest to understand the things about us that make us not fit in and make peace with our personal guilt / regrets, all while trying to make sense of the world. There are memorable characters and excellent production values. If, like my wife, you like horror, or like me, don't mind it ... highly recommended.
Apart from that, Ms Green is new to me but is one of the finer current screen actors I've seen. She is a true chameleon, credibly going from stunning raven beauty to tormented wreck with seeming ease -- but never overdoing it somehow. I'd commend anything with her in it as worthy of consideration. Her current project, just released, is a feature film, Proxima, a psychological drama about a woman juggling the responsibilities of mother and astronaut training for a Mars mission.
