Amazon Prime Video fans have been recommended the perfect gothic horror show to binge this week.
Penny Dreadful has arrived on the streaming platform just over a decade after it first aired, and viewers have been reminiscing about their memories of the three seasons.
The show followed medium Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) as she faced monstrous creatures in Victorian London.
Iconic literary characters like Dracula, Dorian Gray and Dr. Frankenstein were woven into the show, with the tense thriller delving into their origin stories in a fresh way.
‘It’s a brilliant show to watch. Eva Green is as good as it gets, Tony Timothy Dalton is also brilliant. Wish the show continued,’ wrote @TimidPanther on Reddit, while @Johnny_Blaze_123 added: ‘Fantastic show.’
‘It’s beautiful Gothic poetry on the screen,’ enthused @wetbulbsarecoming as @sergiocamposnt went one further and claimed: ‘The best horror show I’ve ever watched.’
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And @jl_theprofessor said: ‘It is incredible. Just a contemplation of melancholy wrapped in monster hunting.’
However, while almost everyone in the thread was praising the show, many shared the same opinion that the first two seasons were much better than the third and final run.
‘Excellent show. Fumbles the bag a bit towards the end by rushing through an otherwise interesting storyline, but the journey there is still worth it,’ wrote @Malkochson.
And @2StepsFromNightwish said: ‘It’s a fantastic show! The first two seasons are incredible. Third season is mixed but still good. The acting, production design, music, gothic vibes, and monster design are brilliant.’
The show’s ending was confirmed after the season 3 finale aired, with everyone involved deciding to keep it a secret until viewers had seen the episode.
‘I can absolutely confirm it is really over, the end, that’s all she wrote,’ creator John Logan told Deadline at the time.
He added: ‘Some poems are meant to be haikus and some are meant to be sonnets and some are meant to be enormous epics, and this was always meant to be a sonnet.
‘It was something of grace and beauty. I think we’ve been able to achieve that in a really masterful way with the artists that I work with, everyone’s work.
‘I think this is the right ending so for me to revisit that world again would seem inorganic, I think.’
Penny Dreadful is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
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