I’m still scratching my head as to how Brona Croft ( Billie Piper) – the Irish immigrant suffering from consumption that we met in episode 2 – is landing all these men. Interspersed throughout the episode, we see bits and pieces of the other characters. The Creature is also given a name – Caliban. He gives The Creature – who he believes was the victim of a horrible industrial accident – a job and a place to live in the theatre. The character, Brand, is an actor who lives for the dramatic and over-the-top. He educated himself – and truth be told, he was so well spoken, he put most English professors I know to shame! He eventually finds a kindred spirit in Vincent Brand ( Alun Armstrong). We learn that The Creature didn’t fare as poorly as one would think. Much of this episode focused on The Creature. The poor doctor looked just as scared as I did! His hatred is so at odds with the flowery speech pouring from his mouth. Rory Kinnear exudes an anger, a rage that he keeps brewing right under the surface, and his scenes with the good doctor are brutal. The scenes with The Creature were some of the most chilling I’d seen in a long time – any show, any movie. And though Frankenstein created him, he also rejected him – leaving The Creature to find his own way. The Creature looks more like the monster I remember from the book – cobbled together, mismatched, and misshapen. However, his first child (Is that the proper word?) is much different. It would seem that the sweet and innocent Proteus was not Frankenstein’s first attempt at playing God. We also get to know Frankenstein’s first born… err, made – The Creature ( Rory Kinnear). This leads the young child to dig into a copy of the Human Anatomy Handbook. We see his mommy dearest cough up blood over young Frankenstein, and she soon dies. Victor Frankenstein – starting with a bit of his childhood. With the third installment, “Resurrection,” we get more backstory on Dr. Note: There are potential spoilers throughout this review, so you may want to stop here and return after watching the show. No, not in the respect that I can’t follow along more like we still have no clue where they’re going with this show and some of the characters.

So, here we are in week three of Penny Dreadful, and I’m still kinda sorta lost.

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