He was very pretty in his 20s but a little bit of age on his face just made it perfect.

Plain ridiculous not to have sympathy for a violent killer? A lot of people come from brutal, difficult backgrounds and don't resort to violence. Even on this show, Brona is not a violent, angry woman despite having lived her share of hardships and difficulties that, to me, would be worse than Caliban's. Unless you…

Well, considering he's about six months younger than Caliban (Both Rory Kinnear and Josh Hartnett were born in 1978) I'm going with exceedingly lucky genes.

My point wasn't that people shouldn't feel empathy for Caliban or for Shelley's creature either. I read it, I felt empathy for the creature because he was truly grotesque yet understood that he would never have a place in this world so he rejected it. I understood his motivations even while being repulsed by his…

The book is immaterial to the series other than creating some characters. Especially after Victor quoted a poem by Percy Shelley. Mary Shelley's intent is not what Penny Dreadful is about. Therefor Caliban is John Logan's creature, not Shelley's. And there was plenty of outrage about both Proteus and Van Helsing at…

And if that's how Logan presented him, I'd be more invested in him. But he's not. He clearly feels some affinity for Caliban which is causing the disconnect in his portrayal. Rather than having him act out in righteous rage at an unjust world and embracing the demon that others see, Logan's making him behave like a…

I get where you were going. And I think that's where Logan wanted to go with the whole scene at Grand Guignol. From the way the next scene with Victor played out there wasn't an acknowledgement from the writers that what he did to Maude was unforgivable and that getting fired was the best option, so clearly I'm the…

But did he really take a lot of abuse? So the other actors didn't like him. So they maybe criticized him. That's not nice behavior but it doesn't rise to the level of "abuse." And why not have him attack one of the men, instead of the only other character, a woman, who shows him kindness? Since it's fiction, the…

I liked the season. And I love Boardwalk Empire so glacially paced shows don't bother me.

His hair was perfect.

Or kills her when his incessant bloviating pushes her over the edge and she doesn't do as she's told.

But that's still saying that Maude's well being as a person is less valued than Caliban's ability to run around tirelessly. If that were Vincent's motivation, which I don't think because he hugs Caliban at the end of the scene and asks him to remember them "better" than they were, that suggests he sees Maude as no…

He didn't exactly lose the Grand Guignol. It's not like Maude or Simon got him fired because they didn't like the way he looked. He was fired, rightly, for assaulting and trying to kill Maude.

Yeah, that's how I heard his comment, too. Probably because he's not dead but he witnessed everyone else dying.

Feck off!

I don't know that it was "too subdued" as much as it was too all over the place. I've enjoyed the show but they need to work on the pacing and plotting the season. I couldn't figure out how they could take care of so many elements in one hour and the answer was … they couldn't, really. They had too many rows to hoe in…

I thought he was speaking figuratively, not literally. They didn't really imply that she was his daughter during the flashback episode, just that he was having an affair with her mother.

He meant Vanessa but I didn't take it literally. Ethan yelled at him last week that she's not a monster with fangs and if he wants a daughter, she's right there. Since Sir Malcolm had seen the child Vanessa as like a third child to him, and one he preferred to his own son, it made sense that in that moment he was…

Well, I still find him out of place and a drag on the overall story.

I did love how she just sat there across from the priest with the world's most jacked up side ponytail like "Yeah, I meant this hair."