But you probably also won't recall Maude showing Caliban any loathing in front of another character. She sympathized with him because he reminded her of her brother. My guess is that her conduct with him would have likely been beyond reproach up to this point. Vincent's wrong assumption came from a kind as well as…

The vampire dispatched so prosaically in the theatre pretty clearly wasn't "the Master" himself.

Dorian Gray actor has been doing interviews in which he's looking forward to another season.

Fingers crossed!

Yep, still pretty kneejerk. I don't see why Maude has to suffer a loss of crediblity just because another actor is a douchebag. Vincent has had ample opportunity to witness Maude's own interactions with Caliban - which were presumably nothing but kind, judging from what we've seen of her - which should have earned her…

How is the kneejerk assumption that the victim is misrepresenting the truth not the textbook definition of victim blaming?

I get the appeal of the past being portrayed as a properly strange land (I also like Vikings a lot, especially for its portrayal of religious practice and people's intimate relationship to it), but I also think it's almost inevitable that historical fiction often ends up saying more about the time of its creation…

I haven't read Moore, but the comparison seems to be inevitable anyway, since people discussing Penny Dreadful keep making it (not always to PD's disadvantage, but as I said, I can't judge.) I should hope there might be more than one way to make a female character interesting and still plausibly Victorian and I will…

Oh absolutely, it's in keeping with the times. Just pointing out how profoundly messed up that Victorian attitude is.

The point for me is that there is desire here to protect the victim - Vincent makes rather clear that he's only humouring Maude because she's the cash cow, not because he thinks she has a legit point in no longer wanting to work with someone who stalks and assaults her. He actually hints rather blatantly that Maude…

"We can have the boys come over and decorate" was my favourite part of this as well. I'm an eternal sucker for that found family stuff.

I know, right? I can't wait for Caliban to be rejected by Brona.

The finale did fall a bit flat for me - they really didn't do much to tie together any narrative strands and I really wish they had done more with Mina, if only to see another female character with a bit of agency in this - but I'll be defnitely here for another serving next year, having high hopes for Brona and…

I read "They all died" as "Every possessed person in the cases of excorcism known to me" not as "every person at that particular excorcism", for what it's worth. But I agree that there might be something special about that particular priest. "Consider maybe just remaining possessed" doesn't seem to me like catholic…

I found it infuriating. Vincent had been portrayed as a very sympathetic character up to this point, but his little speech about wishing to protect the aggressor rather than the victim really squandered any goodwill I might have had for him. Maude's been assaulted by her stalker and he frames her completely justified…

There was a scene in the promos with Ethan on (presumably Dorian's) fancy bed talking to someone about regrets which was apparently cut, which is a pity. I still hope to see a little bit more fallout from that encounter. One dumped by Vanessa, the other recently bereaved, they should totally look for consolation in…

You could sell it as euthanasia.

Hero, not healer. According to the trailer, the world doesn't need a hero, but a monster. We are not even talking about healers here (more useful maybe, than both heroes and monsters, one might think). Although there's probably some point in there how the line between hero and monster can be a thin one anyway.

Apples and oranges. But the first seasons of Misfits were really something else. So, granted, is Game of Thrones, but I can see why someone whose particular buttons are not pushed by the sweep of it all might prefer the leaner, scrappier, more irreverent show.

Lip service. "Love the sinner hate the sin" should be pretty standard for any Christian type, no? I'm generally not impressed with the implementation.