- Network: SHOWTIME
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 26, 2020
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 33 Ratings
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Positive: 13 out of 33
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Mixed: 5 out of 33
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Negative: 15 out of 33
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Penny Dreadful: City Of AngelsYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreMixed or average reviews- based on 33 Ratings
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Jun 14, 2020Not at all what I was expecting. Instead of monsters and horror we have people just being really horrible to each other. Nothing at all like the original series, in any way.
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Apr 29, 2020Saying City of Angels is a pale imitation of the original Penny Dreadful, would imply that it shared any quality with it. City of Angels does not. City of Angels is missing all of the intrigue, charisma, and quality storytelling found in the original show.
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Nathan Lane adds a bit of zing as Vega’s partner, an old hand with a big heart. But Dormer’s Magda should rule proceedings as an agent of chaos, whispering evil into the ears of men. Instead, she’s underpowered. A show like this needs to commit either to being a horror or a riot, and it does neither.
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The show's motto seems to be, anything you can do, we can do worse.
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This sprawling canvas, with its Chinatown vibes and snarling cartoon villains, hardly needs Magda and her doppelgangers' obvious supernatural tricks to muddy the waters. [27 Apr - 10 May 2020, p. 10]