The series premiere of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels , titled aired on Showtime on April 26, 2020. Directed by Paco Cabezas and written by series creator John Logan, the episode serves as a spiritual sequel to the original Penny Dreadful , shifting the setting from Victorian London to Los Angeles in 1938. Plot Summary
: Dr. Peter Craft (Rory Kinnear), a pediatrician and leader of the pro-Nazi German American Bund, begins an unsettling relationship with a mysterious patient’s mother, Elsa—one of the many guises of the shape-shifting demoness Magda (Natalie Dormer).
: The episode is framed by a conflict between two supernatural sisters: Magda, who believes humanity is inherently corrupt, and Santa Muerte (Lorenza Izzo), who serves as a protector of souls but remains indifferent to the world’s growing darkness.
The series premiere of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels , titled aired on Showtime on April 26, 2020. Directed by Paco Cabezas and written by series creator John Logan, the episode serves as a spiritual sequel to the original Penny Dreadful , shifting the setting from Victorian London to Los Angeles in 1938. Plot Summary
: Dr. Peter Craft (Rory Kinnear), a pediatrician and leader of the pro-Nazi German American Bund, begins an unsettling relationship with a mysterious patient’s mother, Elsa—one of the many guises of the shape-shifting demoness Magda (Natalie Dormer).
: The episode is framed by a conflict between two supernatural sisters: Magda, who believes humanity is inherently corrupt, and Santa Muerte (Lorenza Izzo), who serves as a protector of souls but remains indifferent to the world’s growing darkness.