Penny Dreadful: City of Angels; Mirroring Today’s U.S. Within the Frame of Yesterday

Even though Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020) and Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) share the director and the name, the new series has no relation to the older one. It may be disappointing for fans of the mysterious horror characters and particularly prodigious Eva Green from the first show. Still, the new series is impressive in the way John Logan narrates another fantasy story in a different environment with new casting.

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Colony; Segregation by Walls or Greed? (Season 1-3)

Colony is using the same cliché and elements of all a sci-fi story like the fight between humans and aliens, spaceships, hi-tech weapons etc., but its plot doesn’t bound the motif to the conflict between two sides of the war. It tries to create various crises in characters’ lives to push them towards decisions that endanger them or others.

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