Lily has become #necrolily, Murray meets her family in the zombie way, Angelique discovers what she shouldn’t – Penny Dreadful S02E08 commentary, recap and possible outcomes

The 8th episode of PD left me blinking to the screen without a single word. So many questions can be raised here, that I don’t even know where to start? I’m going to continue with spoilers of course, so if you haven’t watched the ep yet, you should check back later.

Oh and there is a little bonus in the end of the post: trailer for episode 9 which has been published recently.

An episode without Vanessa and Ethan

First simple question: did you guys miss Ms. Ives from this ep? I have to admit that I personally didn’t. We have had so many from her (and of course Mr. Chandler) in ep 7 last week, that it was kinda more than enough. She practically started to use the devil’s language to let her landlord Sir Geoffrey Hawkes be eaten up by his own dogs. The Cut-Wife already told her the fact that using her precious handbook-for-the-kill will change her life forever, but she actually went to a race with Mr. Chandler in the topic “who kills Mr. Hawkes first?”.

Brace yourselves, the devil’s language is coming…

Probably next week we will find out how mad he really was at her because of her winning this little competition. I guess the following things can possibly happen there:

• They will kiss again after a possible fight but no sex for the damned lady
• They will go back to the Murray headquarters because there is nothing more to do in the middle of nowhere
• Vanessa will probably also take the book with her which will be worth the witch bitches to break in and try stealing it

What fresh hell has Lily become here?!

This is probably the second question of the week. We could already guess from ep 7 last week, that Lily isn’t that kind of “lamb of god” as she first looked like. (Wonder why I didn’t like her from the start, huh?) As I see, her new twitter tag is #necrolily which is more than hilarious and also true. The first scene where she actually enjoys herself after sleeping with a man who had been chocked by her hours ago was seriously badass. See? That’s what we get if we resurrect a professional whore: she will have the urge to hunt down the whole mankind and take her undead revenge on them. Of course she doesn’t give a shit about her master Victor, as we can clearly see from her conversation with Mr. Clare who’s simply left there just blinking at the newborn wannabe Alpha Mother of the… of the what? Generations of undead?

Her plans are pretty simple (like her, sorry):

• Let’s kill all the men because they are mean, they use women like puppets and trash them when they’re finished
• Let’s be mother of a new kind of human beings (for various unknown reasons she thinks that she can be still pregnant although her body might be a little bit dead already)
• For a baby we must have a father, but with the same health conditions as mama. The only man whom she knows in this state is poor Mr. Clare, so let’s use Mr. Clare as inseminator for the good reason. Asking Mr. Clare is of course not on option because we are soooo done with men ruling everything here, so let’s order him to make the babies. A lot of babies. – And this was the part where I could see Mr. Clare’s face as he was already mentally raped by her just by listening to her plans for the future.

This is what I call mentally raped face

Possible outcomes for “Alpha Mamma” Lily:

• We cannot be serious with her big plan, of course. Mr. Clare seems to lose his attraction to her (wonder why? haha), so she should probably think twice about this conceiving before she believes in it too much.
• Victor will find out about her new habbit of killing men for the greater good and he kills her / she kills him too.
• Mr. Clare sends her to hell (metaphoricly speaking) with her ideas for the bright future and she finds a new place to live by Mr. Gray. She doesn’t know the fact, that he is also very “everlasting”, so the fact that he could be a possible father for her babies will ring a bell in her mind soon after moving in. Or she has a first and final meeting with Mr. Gray’s portrait.
• Mr. Clare kills her because she’s not worthy enough to be his partner till the end of times (let’s face it: her new habbit of killing men is a little bit heartbreaking) and asks Victor to pick a new girl. I just imagined Victor’s face for a request like that and I have to admit that I started to laugh out loud.
• Oh and one last outcome for Lily: the Scottland Yard sniffs out that she has this new hobby and gets her to jail. Of course she would get into medical history very soon (I give her about ten years for that) because of the reason that she just doesn’t get older.

Let’s kiss the eye of a dead man – Lily’s new hobby

The Murray part of the story

I’ve read the most hilarious comment on twitter about recent episode’s final scene where he meets Mina, Peter and his wife yet again at the Poole Headquarters.

“Mina and Peter’s corpses should have their own spinoff by now.”

The scene of the ep seriously goes to Sembene. We know that he doesn’t talk much, he only had about 1 sentence in this ep too, but that was more than correct. He actually saved Murray from Ms. Poole’s magic, no matter how good she was playing with his heart. (And this is the point where I have to mention that “don’t play with my heart” has never been so realistic like in this show.)

“Know who you are!!!”

After Mr. Murray has finally become the good old Mr. Murray whom we god used to, he goes to make a visit to Evelyn Poole. I have no idea how he got to the conclusion that this is a good idea. Seriously. But they have a great discussion about their future with all cards set on the table. Ms. Poole tells him that they could live forever young, he just needs to hand her Vanessa. He rejects this special offer and we’re finally sure about that too, that he’s the father of Ms. Ives.

Well, father’s day has never been harder for Mr. Murray with all the leftovers of his family, standing in front of him in the witch castle. Wonder how he will get out of there alive, or if he will able to manage it at all.

Family reunion in a very special way

And here comes the most heartbreaking moment for me in the show

Dorian and Angelique. Yes. I was waiting so much for a catfight between Angelique and Lily but poor Angelique discovered Mr. Gray’s secret.

Our first look at Dorian’s portrait was Angelique’s last…

If it was my choice, I would rush to Victor with Angelique’s body as soon as possible and beg him to do his magic tricks on her just to see her more in the show. She was a magnificient character and a lot of applause goes to Jonny Beauchamp for making her as true and loving as possible. She would make the best undead ever and I seriously highly recommend creator John Logan to let her have more in the show, somehow, some way. 

Of course I’m highly curious about what you think about this ep and the possible outcomes. Feel free to use the comment section if you also have some ideas you want to share with me or the public. 🙂

Until then here is the trailer for the next episode with some chitty-chat among the Murrays and Lily’s new move (which we knew would come, right?).

Penny Dreadful S02E06 – comments, spoilers (!) and production videos

Two things have to be mentioned in this episode of our favorite show.

First: if you wanted to get a very exciting episode with a lot of drama that would change something in the relations between our characters, then this is not your episode. Following things happened:

• Mr. Clare doesn’t seem to be fully alive to Ms. Putney who’s actually blind but she could feel how cold Mr. Clare’s hand was. She was frightened enough to tell it to her parents who seemed to find it very interesting, but that was all we’ve got from that part of the story. I have to add that if my blind daughter told me that she thinks her college must be dead because he has a cold hand, I would probably tell her to grow up instead. Not to mention the old fact that we all know from our teenage years that people with cold hands are hot under the sheets… Wonder why this wasn’t her first association.
• Mr. Murray didn’t actually break down from the fact that her wife’s cut her throat in her bedroom in a silent night. Of course we know it’s the poison of Ms. Poole that does a really great job in making him a careless – and now facial-hair-less – man who acts like one with serious postmidlife crisis issues. Thumbs up to Timothy Dalton here, I must say, his act was amazing.
• Oh well and we have to speak a little bit about Mr. Chandler too. We all knew that this wolfy-thing might end up somehow in the next full moon and from this episode we learned that he figured a very polite way to hide it from the family. Let’s ask Sembene to chain him and watch the show, because he’s always the best in the sit-and-watch position. Wonder what he will add to this in the next episode, I’m sort of waiting for his little bit twisted sense of humor about this topic.
• Another thing about Mr. Chandler needs to be mentioned too: his not so friendly american acquaintance who seriously has a hard time with escorting him back to his dad. Poor thing lost half of his face down the road, he also needed to find another place to live since Mr. Chandler actually ripped down the first Inn with all the human beings in it too, and still doesn’t have the slightest clue how to force our Ethan to a freakin ship to the states. Of course he tries to make him frightened with Vanessa’s hair, but I guess he will find a better way to make him freak out a little bit more.
• 1 death wasn’t enough for Lily to lose her likeness for spirits. And that will be big issue here, because our doctor is a strictly abstinent guy. I have to say I have thought about a lot of things that might rise conflicts between them (f.e. the fact that she had an affair with Mr. Gray & Mr. Chandler too), but this alcohol-issue wasn’t among them. So I wouldn’t be surprized if we saw her hidden behind a corner sipping champaigne or whiskey (more stylish for her, isn’t it?) in the next episode, following with Mr. Frankenstein trying to get rid of the empty and not so empty flasks in the house.
• For last: of course Lily generated jealousy in Angelique at the ball. I guess they won’t be best friends and I’m on Angelique’s side in this situation. Lily’s acting like a 5 year old child and this just doesn’t work.

And the second thing: we’ve got one of the most spectacular work from the whole cast. The ball-scene and the bloodbath was a freakin’ gread job from the makers, I can’t imagine how great effort they have put in it. So from the “making part” of the show it seriously gets a 10/10 from me, and I was very curious wether they added some “behind the scenes” videos for it.

Two videos can be found on the site of Showtime, the first is about the dancing. You can see here all our favorite characters in their normal clothes (it was highly cathartic for me seeing Eva Green in an oversized sweater), laughing, trying to dance properly and I also have to mention that their teacher is a sweet sugar, seriously.

The second video is about the blood monsun which of course they had to really film although it was just Ms. Ives’s imagination after all. It was very surprizing for me that they didn’t actually do that in Dorian’s gallery, but you can find out more interesting stuffs in the next production blog video too. So check it out too! 🙂

Penny Dreadful S02E03 – Comments about “The Cut-Wife” – SPOILERS included

So I’ve made it until “The Cut-Wife”. The first thing that I have to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to write about it and although I like being sarcastic about things, cracking jokes and stuff, but here i won’t. I just can’t. It wasn’t an episode like all the others and not just because we didn’t meet most of our regular characters. It had a strict line to follow from Ms. Ives not having the slightest clue about who she is and what’s going on in her mind, until the end, where she leaves the house of the Cut-Wife with all the knowledge she gained from her.

This episode was 80% about Ms. Ives’s inner development and I don’t just think of her studying process about herbals, tarrots, daywalkers & nightcommers, the devil’s language or cooking as a lady. The Cut-Wife showed her that sometimes she has to accept things the way they are: she had to face the fact that people don’t live until the end of times and that there is a moment where she has to let them go. Not to mention the fact that she doesn’t have enough power yet to go into a battle with those who deserve to be brought to justice some way, because sometimes patience and waiting for the right moment can be more useful.
We basically watched her growing up innerly from a naive girl who wants to rescue her best friend into a strong woman who already realizes that time and gaining strength can be more useful than running against the wall, full with emotions.

The “Cut-Wife” episode has its consequences for us all. Sometimes we wish things so hard that our heart can lead us to unweighed decisions that would cause a lot of harm and finally we could loose all our chances for success. But if we truly face every possible consequences of our decisions, it can lead us to the right path to choose.

Also there were some interesting scenes in this episode. Ms. Kali being the sister of the Cut-Wife was something which I didn’t expect and also the way she tries to manipulate her using her emotions to get what she wants was also something that can sound familiar for us all, although we don’t usually meet witches in the 21th century. It’s seriously heartbreaking how people can use love and insistence as weapons to get what they want and seeing the Cut-Wife struggling with herself against her sister’s filthy will was more than moving for me.

We could also get a glimpse into Ms. Kali’s past marriage – I have to remind you that her husband must be already dead, because she’s talking about him as “her late husband” to Mr. Murray in the gun store (always those stores, always…). Ms. Kali’s husband Sir Geoffrey Hawkes is also such a type of people whom we can meet in our age too. His weakness, guilty pleasures, threatening techniques and simply awkward personality combined with money and power makes him a serious walking nightmare. I wasn’t surprized as he tried to seduce Ms. Ives, neighter as him being the leader of the villagers to publicly burn the Cut-Wife, but watching him doing these terrible things was still a horror, because it reminded me how deeply rotten one’s personality can really be.

After watching this episode I was just listening to the “Float” from Flogging Molly and for about five minutes I didn’t make the slightest move. It made me think about scenes of my past and about life, after all.

The only thing I can recommend here is: you have to watch it, because it somehow makes you reconsider a lot of things about yourself. It’s seriously challenging, if you look behind the dialogues. A lot of applause goes to Eva Green and Patti LuPone for making this episode as living as I’ve never imagined it could be. So many positive and negative qualities that are all parts of the human nature, stuffed into one single episode made me think that this series seriously deserves as much attention as it gets and I just can hope that most of its fans will make the right consequences and are going to be led to the best possible conclusions, after all.

Penny Dreadful S02E02 – Critics, comments & SPOILER alert!

First of all I need to tell you, that I’ve had very high expectations about this part. The opening of the second season was a very nice start, it didn’t have a single moment where I looked out the window to check out the weather, it just made me attached to the screen. This second one was a bit slower, although it added a lot to the whole story. Somehow I have to say that we naturally need parts like this, with less blood, more conversations and more intriques like usually, just to make the next one more exciting. (I hope I won’t be disappointed about that.)

So I have to say we don’t seriously need a lot of blood and actions in every part of the series, but somehow it can make a gap, if we don’t get it every time. At least Mr. Chandler (Josh Hartnett) could have used his riffles to make me happy, but only Mr. Murray (Timothy Dalton) had a little shooting practice with a semi-automatic Mauser and the “dean” of the witches Madame Kali (Helen McCrory). But let’s see the whole stuff together, shall we?

Ms. Kali & Mr. Murray having nice moments with a Mauser

The first scene that made me smile was Mr. Murray and Madame Kali who actually always meet at stores. Now it was all about parfumes, Ms. Kali wanted to have a new scent for herself and Murray wanted to buy a gift for Ms. Ives (Eva Green). As they were talking about scents, Ms. Kali invited Mr. Murray to help her choose the perfect one. (These scenes always make me wonder about the methods english women used to catch men for themselves in the 19th century and how unable I would be for that… hahh.) So she was showing the first scent to him, and the following dialogue took place inbetween:

Mr. Murray’s comment for a scent: “Very Nice.”

Ms. Kali: “Very nice? Such a man…” – applause for actress Helen McCrory for the most perfect tone that she could possibly produce for that. Seriously.

Things to learn from that dialogue: you don’t always have to say “fuck you, you simple-headed moron” for a man to fully make him understand what you exactly mean.

We can be also sure, that Mr. Murray’s going to have hard times with this lady in the future, because she didn’t loose the chance to whisper into his ear in the very famous “verbis diablo”, which we just simply call “the devil’s language”.

Shopping is always an important thing.

Mr. Lyle (Simon Russel Beale) also appears in one of the first scenes already, he makes a visit at the Murray Headquarters. I have to tell you, that he’s one of my fav characters in the series, his laugh is remarkable and all the things we ever imagined about elite english men is perfectly added to his nature. He doesn’t give a hack about his wife and usually just matches her with her gin-addiction, makes sarcastic jokes about his “friends” to his “other friends”, whispering naughty gossips about them, having feasts, some hidden perversion and possibly a wig too (but he will deny the fact until the coffin).

Mr. Lyle, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Murray & Ms. Ives @ the Murray Headquarters

So Mr. Lyle is there to add some more infos to the “verbis diablo” storyline about a brother Arthur Gregory who was also possessed by the devil long long time ago. Actually his mate brothers locked him away as a possible lunatic and later on they decided to burn him on a stake. (Well, yeah, brothers and their methods, let’s burn the sicko!) But before they did this highly christian thing, brother Gregory managed to write a book about “his lunatic wavings”, which can be found in The British Museum. So Mr. Lyle & Mr. Chandler take their hats to get a hold of this book.

Mr. Lyle @ The British Museum

We also get a plus info about english scientists and their connection to the museum by Mr. Lyle: “It holds the largest collection of pornography in the world. People are always sneeking in to have a look.” Naughty boys with high prestige, wandering around in The British Museum… Lovely, ain’t they?

After all they bring a whole hutch of the old Gregory’s stuff to the Murray Headquarters, basically after he died, the brothers did a great job putting seriously everything to a big box. We will probably see in the next episodes, what our heroes find out from all this mess on the table.

Remains of the lunatic brother – just take a look. He seriously had a hard life.

We also have to add one more info about Mr. Lyle. I already thought, that he has a connection to Ms. Kali, because she was the fortune-teller at his feast in the first season, but now we find him at the witch-headquarters, where Ms. Kali tells him not to fool her and do what she tells, unless he wants to loose everything he ever had. She’s threating him with “all those photographs… so indescrete. I just can’t imagine what the museum governorns would make of them.” So disloyalty would have its consequences. Poor Mr. Lyle, having his ego and his good will on the table, who knows, which he will choose?

About our witches: Madame Kali and the girls also managed to do something weird in this part. One of the girls stole a freshly born baby for the Madame and very rude things happened to the poor one. Not to mention it had to die very quickly, Ms. Kali went into a chamber full of puppets to cut its chest open, rip out its heart and insert it to a puppet. Guess what all the other puppets must also have behind their little clothes… Huge warning also added here: Ms. Ives also has a puppet that looks exactly like her, waiting for her heart.

Ms. Kali in her puppet-chamber @ work. Look at those instruments… Highest quality morgue equipments of her age, right?

Poor Dorian Grey did only get a few minutes in this part. He met Angelique and was offered a quicky, but because of his broken heart, he denied it first. Angelique (Jonny Beauchamp) seemed kinda weird for me the first time, but I have to admit that I haven’t thought about him being a boy in lady costume… After I saw him naked a few minutes later, as Mr. Grey visited him at his “office”, which was of course a cathouse, I was said “wow” out loud. (Sorry, girls, I won’t add a screenshot about him naked, you have to watch this part yourself, because I’m afraid the content would be erased very soon because of nudity).

Angelique while offering the quicky for Mr. Grey

We also need to take a look at what’s happening in the Frankenstein-flat, because Brona Croft (Billie Piper) woke up in the first part. She has a new name, Lily, so I will also call her that way, just to make everything easier. Lily also doesn’t have a memory, although she manages to speak now, and I guess poor Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) is slowly falling in love with her. I bet he does… Also there is the other very excited creature here, Mr. John Clare (Rory Kinnear), who’s dream is to have a bride and this should be Lily. My heart always breaks a bit when I see Mr. Clare, actually he’s one of my favs too, not to mention the stunning and truly amazing act of Rory Kinnear. It’s just simply heartbreaking as I see Clare’s dreams, struggles, craving to be loved, attempts to show his feelings although he is more than afraid to be hurt again and the list goes just on and on… Anyway, whenever Mr. Clare comes to the screen, I always know that somehow it will kill me.

Mr. Frankenstein being possibly the first hairdresser of the century who uses hair-bleaching as disguise technic. No wonder why he’s often called “the master”…

But as of speaking about Mr. Clare, this part’s favorite scene for me was him meeting Ms. Ives in the dungeons of London, where people with cholera are being kept and locked away from the rest of the population. Ms. Ives went there with Mr. Murray to do charity work with the sick. Mr. Clare was reading poetry in one of the hidden corners and it caught the attention of Ms. Ives. To be honest, I haven’t thought about them meeting each other even once in the series, but it was more than amazing and I’m very happy that they did.

You have to know, that I’m addicted to literature and the fact that Mr. Clare always citates something good is a thing that I love in the whole series. He finally met a woman who also knows english authors well and has the same things and questions running in her mind – about life, death, “the allmighty” and hell. Their dialogue was far the best in the second part, not to mention the second Mr. Clare started William Blake’s “To see a world…”, and my eyes burst into tears.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in an hour

Ms. Ives & Mr. Clare changing oppinions about life and death

So that was the second part, it wasn’t that bad, huh? I’m curious about the third, which will have more actions I guess, because it will be a flashback, from which we will get the story why Vanessa’s drawing sometimes scorpions from her own blood.