All is bittersweet, but I like that the show lets us imagine where the characters lives will go in the future, even though deep down we know all ends in tragedy.

"Let's bring her back to life. By the way, I can do that!"

I tricked myself into thinking that maybe this show could have had a truly happy ending, but it could never have happened, in this beautiful show of Victorian goths that are endlessly pursued by the forces of evil as they mournfully recite Romantic poetry.

Treadaway was the show's great discovery.

I wonder if she's a vampire now?

What was Lily going to do if the woman at the beginning had said she'd lost a boy? Kick the grave marker over?

I don't think Jekyll is quite in the same camp as the other two. We still haven't seen why he's so eager to get Victor's stalking obsession back.

Clare didn't even know he had a wife or had had a previous life when he forced Frankenstein to make Lily.

Margery is played by Kinnear's real-life fiance, so the affection they're showing each other is genuine.

They can't wrap this all up in just three more episodes. They've already shown that the Egyptian deities (Amunet, Amun-Ra) are just different names for Lucifer and Vanessa, so I think injecting actual Egyptian mythology would help the show any.

FANTASTIC episode. While The Creature's story is probably not finished, this episode confirmed my conviction that Penny Dreadful is the one of the best Frankenstein adaptations ever made. I was very nearly in tears at his reunion with his family.

My theory is that Vanessa got possessed after having sex with Dorian because Dorian made a deal with Lucifer- possession is kind of Lucifer's thing.
His brother Dracula, on the other hand, seems to do things entirely through flesh-and-blood vampirism, and I don't think he's even capable of possessing people the way…

I think what will happen is that Dorian will use Victor to 'placate' Lily FOR him, under threat of death.

There's no such thing as 'progress', just change, for good or for ill.

I think Ethan's delivery of grace was intended to be funny and edgy rather than serious.

I really do love the Frankenstein-Dorian-Lily dynamic, but what the hell is Lily's endgame? She founded a battered women's shelter/serial killer training camp, to what end? Does she really think she's going to be able to take over London with this ragtag bunch of street urchins? And DEAR GOD, is Justine becoming…

Her human-witch look was fantastic, but I agree, her monster look was incredibly lame.

And Percy Shelley existed, yet his wife Mary didn't write Frankenstein.

She is entirely too modern a character in terms of dress, appearance, and mannerisms. That makes sense for immortal weirdos like Dorian, but every second she was on screen I couldn't shake the idea that this was clearly a woman from the 21st century that was in Victorian London for some reason.

No.