There is a distinct difference between horror and the horrific. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Season 1 Episode 4 hits us with both in an hour filled with uncomfortable, disturbing, violent, and nightmarish encounters.
Reminiscent of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Season 1 Episode 1, the curtain goes up on a massacre of people we don't know witnessed by Santa Muerte.
She collects the soul of what we assume is the only individual of the bunch destined for Heaven, the child who smiled directly at her before being shot down by gangsters for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Full disclosure, I am a mother to two small children, and I have very little stomach for the victimization of children on screen. Starting with the Ensenada incident, I was pretty much traumatized by every act of this script.
From the meaningless murder of the nameless child in the opening to...
Reminiscent of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Season 1 Episode 1, the curtain goes up on a massacre of people we don't know witnessed by Santa Muerte.
She collects the soul of what we assume is the only individual of the bunch destined for Heaven, the child who smiled directly at her before being shot down by gangsters for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Full disclosure, I am a mother to two small children, and I have very little stomach for the victimization of children on screen. Starting with the Ensenada incident, I was pretty much traumatized by every act of this script.
From the meaningless murder of the nameless child in the opening to...
- 5/18/2020
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
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