The first thing people will talk about when it comes to Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is its title. The new Showtime drama, premiering April 26, isn't a revival or a spin-off of Penny Dreadful, and it isn't exactly a new chapter in an American Horror Story-type anthology, although if series creator John Logan wants to go in that direction, he's got my blessing.
City of Angels, billed as a "spiritual descendent" of original-flavor Penny Dreadful, is also created, written, and executive produced by Logan, and the two shows share one series regular, Rory Kinnear.
But beyond that, the new Penny Dreadful is new — a completely separate story set decades later and half a world away from the gone-too-soon gothic horror.
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