Eva green penny dreadful seance1/25/2024 ![]() ![]() This isn’t to say that Vanessa has more screen time, or eats more scenery, but there is more of a haze connecting her character to the other players than any other actor. Penny Dreadful takes place in Vanessa Ives’ world. As John Lennon would say in Skywriting by Word of Mouth, “`I don’t know what came over me,’ said a passing stranger.” Not only does she upstage the booked entertainment, Vanessa takes it to the streets. Not Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) though, if ever someone were made to one-up a psychic at a party, Ives proves a Ouija board is better than a lampshade. A bit over the top, most partygoers would say. I am almost sure Madame Kali (Helen McCrory) was going to turn out to be a fake, all that hand-holding, stiff-shoulders and serious looks, and that’s before she turns into Maria Ouspenskaya. I’m not saying you should try these at home, but séances, done correctly, can entertain the kiddies for hours. The parlor tricks are half the fun in Penny Dreadful. ![]() It was a golden dawn for what promised to be a golden age. Mediums of all sizes are all the rage, or were, in the last decades of the 1800s. So when I heard Sir Ferdinand Lyle (Simon Russell Beale) was throwing a party on this week’s Penny Dreadful that featured a “Séance,” I knew it was a bash I wanted to crash. The more the con the better the show, like the Coney Island Sideshow, they put on the best performance when they’re making their pitch and forever upping the price. I can’t go past a sign without going in for the $5 reading.
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