Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Review

The latest game news from IGN - one of my fave channels ever - check it out This is an advanced spoiler-free review of the series premiere of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, titled "Santa Muerte," which is currently available to stream for free on YouTube and SHO.com.  [poilib element="accentDivider"] After nearly four years off the air, Showtime's supernatural darling returns with a provocative new entry that leaves gloomy Victorian London behind for the sunny skies of Los Angeles circa 1938. But don't let those calming warm temperatures fool you, Penny Dreadful: City of Angeles is just as harrowing as its predecessor. Leading the supernatural charge in this new iteration is Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer, who plays a dark goddess called Magda. While not all of her intentions are laid bare in the premiere, it appears that she's attempting to infiltrate various facets of Los Angeles' political and social spheres in order to create more chaos and death. But the really cool aspect of Magda is that she has the ability to take the appearance of anyone she chooses. It appears that Dormer is having a lot of fun portraying these different versions of herself, reminiscent of Tatiana Maslany's memorable performance in Orphan Black. And whether she's playing a seductive goddess decked out in tight black leather or an ambitious secretary, Dormer excels every time. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=penny-dreadful-city-of-angels-season-1-gallery&captions=true"] The other supernatural force to be reckoned with is Lorenza Izzo's Santa Muerte, the Angel of Holy Death and Magda’s sister. It appears that Logan is going to challenge the cliché version of Death from a stoic and indifferent figure to a person the viewer can actually relate to. Unlike her sister, Santa Muerte doesn't get out much unless it has to do with ferrying the dead to the afterlife, but the episode has moments where we get a sense of the emotional toll it takes on Muerte for her to do her particular job. On the non-supernatural side of things, the series is tackling a lot of topics here: Nazi spies, the construction of a massive automotive transit system that will cause thousands of Mexican-Americans to lose their homes, and oh yeah, there's also the gruesome ritualistic murder of a Beverly Hills family that needs solving. Collectively, each storyline receives equal attentiveness; but some characters, like Thomas Kretschmann's Nazi-supporting Richard Goss and Michael Gladis' racist Councilman Townsend, are closer to caricatures than fully-realized people. While not as much of a head-turner in name or appearance as Dormer, we spend most of our time with the LAPD's first Mexican-American detective, Tiago Vega, who makes for an effective central figure due to his connections to both the Caucasian and Mexican communities of Los Angeles. His mother is a devout believer in Santa Muerte and all other supernatural matters, while Vega's LAPD cohorts rely on the evidence they can see with their own eyes. Vega's struggle to cope with the spiritual history of his people and the new world he so desperately wants to fit into provides a satisfying tension that thrums underneath everything else the season premiere is tackling. The original Penny Dreadful series made our favorite 50 TV opening credits from 2008-2018. Watch the video below to see who else made our list. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/01/04/the-50-best-tv-opening-credits-2008-2018"]

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