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PENNY DREADFUL
June 5, 2016  | By David Bianculli

Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

This series has split into five different shows this year: the ongoing experiments of Drs. Frankenstein and Jekyll (pictured), the depravity of Oscar Wilde and one of Frankenstein’s creations, the search for his past by another of Frankenstein’s creations, the encroaching claim by Dracula upon the mentally tortured Vanessa Ives, and the odd gothic Western featuring Ethan as a werewolf on the run in the old West. And amazingly, all five plots work really well, and get their turns in the sun. Or, on this show, the gloom. Tonight, it’s Ethan, with his witch companion, against his chief tormenters, including his own vengeance-consumed father.

 
 
 
 
 
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