Though Penny Dreadful: City of Angels set itself up for season 2, and had plenty of storylines to resolve after the season finale, it's difficult to justify a return venture for a show that couldn't deliver on its initial promise and hold up to the legacy of its predecessor. Penny Dreadful was a packed-full show, busy with gore, big personalities, and self-consciously beautiful dialogue (which was beautiful, so the self-consciousness worked). The original Penny Dreadful is available on Netflix streaming as of this writing, and was available during the months City of Angels aired it would be easy enough to compare the two, and City of Angels is the weaker show. It's also possible that people who watched the original series weren't keen on the new angle, and would have preferred a return to what made the original show so outstanding in the first place-the dark, gritty, and violent sensuality of Gothic horror. Penny Dreadful season three TV series finale photo: Patrick Redmond/SHOWTIME. To amp up excitement for the premiere of their new series, Penny Dreadful, Showtime, and Van Wagner Experiential commissioned Future Colossal to create an. Ultimately, the show-which featured an outstanding cast, such as Game of Thrones alum Natalie Dormer in four different roles-just didn't take off. Starring: Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Nathan Lane. Penny Dreadful TV show on Showtime: season 3 ending, no season 4. Considering that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, audiences are more or less captive in their homes and scrambling for new, original content, that's an even bigger blow. From there, it went downhill, and ended with 0.659 viewers (in millions) by the season 1 finale, "Day of the Dead". That was the high point for the show, which was expected, given that it was the premiere. The series premiere, "Santa Muerte", only amassed 0.807 (in millions) total viewers.
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