#Eva green penny dreadful seance series

The voices, the hissing, and the body movements-all of it is maximally unnerving. She channels Sir Malcolm’s son Peter and the demon/ghost/god in turn, taunting Sir Malcolm and profoundly disturbing all of Ferdinand Lyle’s party guests by contorting out of shape. In Madame Kali’s first appearance, Vanessa and Sir Malcolm attend a séance where Vanessa is possessed by an ancient something (god? demon? ghost? It all kind of blends, on this show). I am not exaggerating when I say that I can’t watch this scene without every single light in my home being turned on first. The fact that Eva Green has won exactly zero tangible awards for her role as Vanessa Ives is almost beyond comprehension.

#Eva green penny dreadful seance series

The Showtime original is returning this Sunday, May 1 for its third season premiere, so in honor of that, here are all of the most deliciously fucked up moments in the series so far.Įva Green literally bends over backwards for that Emmy, comes up empty-handed Penny Dreadful is also straight-up one of the scariest shows currently on TV, rivaling the oft-grotesque WTF-ery of Ryan Murphy’s anthologized behemoth, American Horror Story. That helps Logan’s vision to be the cohesive, tonally consistent, unrelenting phantasmagoria that it is. Penny Dreadful is John Logan’s beautiful, lavish, fucked up baby-he created the show and has written every episode of the series to date. This Gothic supernatural drama also has the distinction of being one man’s vision.