Penny Dreadful: The Final Season [Blu-ray]
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
If you’re a fan of Seasons 1 & 2, you will no doubt feel compelled to buy the 3rd Season, but you will probably be very disappointed. Clearly the show was cancelled in a peremptory manner, since the third Season adds several new characters but never gets to develop their plotlines, including a woman who mysteriously appears and befriends our leading lady (but we never learn anything about her); we are introduced to “Dr. Jekyll” (but the show ends before he has time to become “Hyde”); and we finally meet “Dracula,” who (in the stupidest, most unbelievable plotline imaginable) has apparently spent a year working at the British Natural Museum simply to initiate an accidental meeting with Miss Ives! [He might just as realistically have gone to work in the shop that does her hair!] Truly, the third Season is an embarrassing mess which (like Dr. Johnson’s horse) charges off “in all directions at once” but (tragically) has no where to go. [As for the very beautiful Mr.Carney, the show quite literally leaves him alone in his mansion completely adrift from the rest of the plot. One thing is clear: Whoever pulled the plug on this show in such a precipitous manner certainly had no regard for its fans.-RANDEL
This is the final season of this daring show, and as such makes me sad to see it go. The arc of this season is the final battle for all the folks as the split up last year to go their separate ways. Once again they must band together to fight the Darkness, and they do, after interesting side trips and the addition of new charactors and dangers. I can heartily recommend each of the four seasons, and once again ask why HBO and Showtime seen to be willing to move forward on projects like this whereas Broadcast networks do not.-Robert Abel
The third and last season of the show begins where it left off with all the main characters alone and on their own way feeling depressed and down and slowly picking up the pieces of their minds and hearts.
After the devil has failed to claim Vanessa Ives for his mate, this entire season is time for his material brother Dracula to make her his bride.Penny Dreadful’s Dracula is completely different from all previous movies and any other show that presented the character so none of the preexisting notions and nuances of the vampire are shown here.
New characters include Vanessa’s female therapist Dr. Seward, Dr. Henry Jekyll a close college friend of Frankenstein, Ethan’s adoptive american indian father Kaetenay, a new friend for Vanessa, Catriona Hartdegen who studies the dead and death and with them new plots are introduced.As the show progresses we yet again see more of Vanessa’s most interesting past, this time a more detailed account of her stay at the women’s asylum, where (spoiler alert) she meets the would be creature or John Claire. We are also presented with the full story of Ethan’s past as many episodes are set in the Old West New Mexico of the USA, including who gave him his werewolf curse and why.-E. Ocasio
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Timothy Dalton, Simon Russell Beale, Reeve Carney
Format: Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Number of discs: 3
Rated: NR – Not Rated
Studio: Showtime Ent.
DVD Release Date: October 4, 2016
Run Time: 480 minutes
ASIN: B01JCUPZGW
