Penny Dreadful - The Final Season
After the first few episodes I thought that Season 3 would never reach the subtlety of Season 1 or the power of Season 2. The story had become slightly too obscure, and the move from London to the USA (for quite a bit of the running time) definitely needed getting used to.
How wrong I was. Episode 4 ("A Blade of Grass") simply blew me away. This has to be one of the finest episodes of Penny Dreadful. I even go one step further. The scenes with Eva Green and Rory Kinnear in the insane asylum are nothing short of a masterpiece. Great dialogues, excellent acting, perfect editing.
A quiet episode for sure. All the violence is inside Vanessa's head. And, at least a little bit, in the viewer's head, too. Brilliant.
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Now let's see how the rest of the series compares to this fine episode.
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