![]() ![]() ![]() Someone who sadly won’t return is Sembene. Poole sharks … Sarah Greene and Helen McCrory as Hecate and Evelyn Poole in Penny Dreadful. Her weary retort – “Not everyone shares your mania for poetry” – to the caged Clare was enjoyably spiteful. She had improved after dropping her phony innocent-blind-girl routine. Nice touch leaving Lavinia to discover the slain bodies of her parents. Their longterm dastardly plan didn’t seem to make much sense, so it was no surprise when Caliban – whose introductory scene involved him tearing a man in two – made similarly short work of the cell doors. ![]() John Clare’s time at the waxworks/freakshow with the Putney family was a lot more fun, but equally pointless. Pinkerton detective Warren Roper, with his impressive leather mask holding together what little was left of his face also didn’t amount to all that much and was rapidly dispatched after a long buildup. His dalliance with doomed fellow outsider Angelique didn’t reveal much more, but at least we got a night out to the opera, a visit to an unexpectedly extravagant table-tennis hall and a glimpse of his secret painting. There was some awkwardness Dorian Gray again had no real connection to the main storyline. As the job of building the world and mythology was established last time, season two also managed to find better ways to exploit its raft of great characters. With two more episodes than the largely misunderstood first season, it seemed faster, more dense and more focused than before. ![]()
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