^^^Too true…makes me sad.

Strange, my pixels for this smell like irony. But, I have sinus problems, so may that may be what's up.

The segue from the happy memory of taking a cleaver to Hubby to not relying on anyone because you were all alone just because you were charged with murder to hook up with that nice man and let him decide if he wants to help? Maybe I'm idiosyncratic but for me that just doesn't segue. But I suspect that if Seward had…

For a second I was going to downvote this for talking about "misandrist" death cult. Then I remembered that on this show misandry really is a thing, unlike real life.

The Lily story line is supposed to parallel Vanessa's with Victor and Jekyll trying to abuse her like Lucifer and Dracula are trying to abuse Vanessa. The thing is, Frankenstein as the villain because he's unforgivably MRA fails not just because it lets him off the hook for things like epic fail playing God of a new…

By period standards of course you are correct. In character terms, that suggests Brona owes some sort of debt to Victor for delivering. For her to seduce him for no reason, then to whine about how unhappy she was while he was successfully fooled…well, it seems a character disservice to Lily to me.

I think there is such a thing as progress in science and technology…but it isn't guaranteed to triumph.

It is a necessary part of open ended serials that they must keep undoing their trivial sensations.

In the horror genre, blood=semen. It's already there. Saying it would be too on the nose.

There was an interesting (well, to me,) milestone in the visual language of the X mythology in Apocalypse. After the open in the mythical age of Egypt, the movie travels through the Pneumatic Tube of History. It's largely featureless with the prominent exceptions of swastika and hammer&sickle suddenly blazoned on the…

You're right, the actors desire for less time on Penny Dreadful to have more time for other projects (or recuperate from the insane shooting schedules so many TV shows have,) is also a factor. Still, as near as I can make out, the standard compensation is per episode…so fewer episodes means less total money for the…

My nostalgia was for the original X-Men, who've never been on any screen.

It's difficult to confess how obtuse I can be. But it finally occurred to me that much of the plotting may be aimed at hiring actors for a limited number of episodes in order to save money. Don't have to pay Eva Green or Billie Piper or Reeve Carney or Josh Hartnett or Timothy Dalton (and Rory Kinnear who appears to…

My hearing isn't what it used to be…I didn't hear any sizzling. Thought it was simply that the kid was gagging, which didn't seem much different from beating him up. Thanks for making the events clear.

It would be more fun if there's not really any need to keep whaling on people. But I missed his catching on to what was casting out the demon, unless it's Kyle's halitosis?

Ah, the world's favorite part of WV!

Michael Bay, Auteur, and Voice of God, Speaks!

The pilot was a little padded.

Her mother thinks she stole. The twins are spoiled. The brother is going to be the one who gets to grow up and be boss, but she may be married off.

In a feminist reading I think Thomasin becoming an actual witch is a revenge fantasy, where the Devil takes her revenge on her family for her. The malice against the family acts out her just hatred of her oppression.