![]() ![]() Who could do anything but cheer when Seward showed up at Sir Malcolm's mansion and took charge, leading the group to Bedlam to coerce information from Renfield?Ĭatriona's entrance in the first half was equally excellent, swooping in in the nick of time to save Ethan, shooting familiars left and right with grace and ease. It was sort of ridiculous how quickly everything snapped into place for her once she saw Renfield there (she realized he was Dracula's servant, knocked him out, and somehow got him to Bedlam?), especially after her season-long denial of Vanessa's supernatural afflictions, but I can forgive it because Seward ended up being all kinds of badass in this finale. The opening scene, where Seward found Renfield being a huge creeper, munching on frogs while listening to Vanessa's recorded therapy sessions, was great. In retrospect, I wanted much more of her in this two-parter if that was her swan song.ĭespite the tragedy of Vanessa's death, the way the entire group assembled over the course of the two hours, with the common goal of saving Vanessa, was excellent. Much stranger than Vanessa dying was the fact that she was completely absent from the first half of the finale and virtually absent from the second half, save two very brief appearances (one of which was her death scene). (Sorry, guys, I'm still a little traumatized by this all and it's put me in a weird mood.) The Penny Dreadful Season 1 Finale and Penny Dreadful Season 2 Finale each encapsulated that idea to a T – the former through Vanessa's conversation with the priest, and the latter with Lucifer's vision of Vanessa and Ethan as a happily married, beige-wearing couple with two cute, beige-wearing kids.īut Vanessa will never wear beige. We'd already seen her come to terms with the fact that she could never be a "normal" woman. We'd already seen Vanessa reckon with what she was. It was heartbreaking and tear-jerking, but ultimately, it made sense. First, the elephant in the room (review) – Vanessa died.
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