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Quick Take review – Penny Dreadful 1×08: ‘Grand Guignol’

June 30, 2014 by Joe Lipsett

Courtesy of Showtime

The stage is set and the players assembled for the final act of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful. Who will emerge from the ‘Grand Guignol’ theatre alive?

Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Penny Dreadful, TV Tagged With: Billie Piper, Danny Sapani, Eva Green, Harry Treadaway, Josh Hartnett, Olivia Llewellyn, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, Season Finale, Showtime, Timothy Dalton

Quick Take review – Penny Dreadful 1×04: ‘Demimonde’

June 2, 2014 by Joe Lipsett

Courtesy of Showtime

Penny Dreadful gets meta as everything comes back to theatricality and performance.

Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Penny Dreadful, TV Tagged With: Billie Piper, Danny Sapani, David Warner, Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, Showtime, Timothy Dalton

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The 411 on me

I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

Words:
> Bloody Disgusting
> /Film
> Consequence
> The Spool
> Anatomy of a Scream
> Grim Journal
> That Shelf

Podcasts:
> Horror Queers
> Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

Recent Posts

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