Dalton was exceptional - having had a father much like Sir Malcolm, that he was able to bring such pathos out in me for him was remarkable. Had me re-thinking my father's humanity.
No, not really.
Seriously this cast kills it! I loved TV star going up against 'Kinnear of the stage' and wiping the floor with him. Piper…

Happy birthday. I had spicy beef noodle soup. With pork.

This is fascinating. Thanks so much.

I was trying for bullet points. I'll edit.

I would never say that. I believe in analysis and criticism something like a religion!
What I'm saying is that by now we can clearly see what Logan intends to do with this show and it isn't like anything else, nor does it adhere to conventional television structure. To ask it to do so now seems wrong - damaging to…

Perhaps it is what Ethan said about they things laid in us when we are young. There was Brona, brought up in a brutal place, always an object to men. It was her lightness (which attracted Ethan) which kept her moral. Lily, though seemingly light (ha!) is amoral, but the framework of Brona's life still informs her…

By your reckoning 97%? Or may 95?

Dorian doesn't really care for anyone, at least not for long.

GOsh I hope not - I fucken' hate how that book deals with love and passion. Never are Heathcliff and Cathy equals. Penny Dreadful is defined by how it makes all its characters equal to each other, even the ones you wouldn't expect.

This is how I see his thinking - he has murdered (massacred) knowingly and unknowingly. He is burdened by it, perhaps even believes the werewolf was invited into to him via his killings as a soldier. So he sees Vanessa's murdering as a possible invitation to the devil; the one he watched her suffer against for weeks.

Or perhaps it was a deeper critique on the type of man Frankenstein is - unfeeling, controlling, absolute. After all he does destroy the bride on front of the creature. Abject cruelty.

Ahem, that was not a cable knit. Perhaps it was plain garter or reverse stockinette. I can't be sure - I was distracted.

Host vs Graft

Is he maybe a Wendigo? Isn't that an American myth?

That is awesome. It never occurred to me.
Of course Dorian would be concerned with transformation because he can't change. Or at least he can direct his change upon an object, thus observe his own transformations. (If life is a process of transformation itself)

She's interesting. And I liked how progressive her sex scene was.

Yes that and Caliban's attack on Maud show that Logan is interested in exploring how men 'colonise' women, feel entitled to claim them.

But the conceit is that Dorian Gray never changes. His portrait takes all of his humanity, depth, leaving him with all the pretty surfaces.

I'm pretty sure he's fucked a beautiful corpse before. Don't ask me how I know.

I'd argue that it wasn't a plot. Ethan isn't what he pretends to be (a ranger, low-class, un-educated, irreligious, fearfully macho, totally hetero), and Dorian is not just the most beautiful boy in town - he is seductive, he is escapism personified.