‘Penny Dreadful’ season 1, episode 8 recap: A parting of ways 

‘Penny Dreadful’ season 1, episode 8 recap: A parting of ways

By Tariq Kyle (@TRQhz) at 8:00 pm, June 30, 2014 | Reviewed by Karen Rought

aired this weekend and it left us with more than a few questions. Check out our recap and let us know what you thought!

Vanessa explains to Malcolm that she believes Mina is trying to be found, and he says that he will try to save her if he can but if he can’t then he will end her suffering. Dorian arrives, and he asks her to read him his future, but she points out that not everyone has a future, and some people only have a past. He wants to have dinner or lunch, but she blows him off completely. He says he’ll wait for her at four somewhere, but she asks him to let himself out.

Malcolm goes to visit someone at a gun shop who gives him a prototype gun with an auto-firing mechanism. On his way out, he meets a woman who was at the seance; they flirt a bit before he leaves.

He’s at home loading his gun, and Vanessa asks what he’s hiding. He says he would sacrifice Vanessa’s life for Mina’s, and he would gladly trade Vanessa’s life for hers.

Vanessa does decide to meet Dorian at the greenhouse. She tells him that she cannot be with him, but because of what happened last time she slept with him she cannot allow them to keep seeing each other.

Brona is still sick, and Ethan was with her as she’s sleeping, but when he leaves two men are watching for him, “enjoying the hunt.”

Ethan comes back to see Brona with Victor, and Victor says he can give her a sedative. She’s immensely close to death, and she’s scared of it. Victor tries to comfort her, but she says she doesn’t know what awaits her on the other side because she hasn’t been good. He tells her he believes in a place between Heaven and Hell, a place of rebirth, but there’s a price to pay for the passage there. He then suffocates her with a pillow. He says Ethan can spend his time with her, and he’ll take care of the body.

Ethan goes to a bar to drink and the two men watching him approach him. One of them is American and the other Apache, and are there to bring Ethan back to see his dad. If he tries to fight, they’re going to drag him. But naturally, he kicks their asses and leaves.

At the theatre, Caliban is having a problem with the mechanisms to make an actor fly, and the actor gets upset with him. He goes to his living area to read when the actress that he’d given a book to comes to visit him and thanks him. He recites a part of the book he gave her, and before she leaves she kisses him on the forehead.

He goes to visit her in her dressing room, and before we know it, he’s forcibly kissing her and throws her against a wall before he realizes what he’s doing. Unfortunately, because of that, he gets asked to leave the theatre. As he leaves, we get a camera view of the top of the theatre and it’s revealed that’s where the master vampire is sleeping.

Caliban arrives at Victor’s because he has no where else to go, but Victor doesn’t want to forgive him for murdering Van Helsing and what he’s asking him to do to another human. Victor is ready to shoot him, and Caliban says it would be a blessing if he did, but he decides not to because he can’t; he’s finally connected with Caliban. Ethan visits, and he brings him to see Brona.

The gang arrives at the theater after it’s closed, searching for the master vampire. They find him sleeping above the stage and just as Malcolm was going to shoot, Ethan gets sucked under the trap door and has to fight a bunch of the female vampires, which wakes the master up.

Malcolm manages to stab the master as Ethan is fighting with all of the female vampires. Ethan gets overwhelmed by all of them, but Malcolm manages to kill the master, and as he died so did the rest of his ladies. Mina comes out from the shadows, saying Vanessa’s name. But she’s possessed, and says Malcolm has done well by bringing Vanessa to her.

Vanessa says she can save Mina, but she says she doesn’t want to be saved. Malcolm attempts to talk to her, and she says she’s who she’s meant to be. Mina says they’ll understand once they join the master, and now that the master has his bride they’ll sire generations, and just as Mina was going bite Vanessa, Malcolm shoots and kills her.

Back at the lab, Victor reveals Brona’s body to Caliban – she’s going to be his girlfriend. Ethan is drinking at the inn when the same men come back to get him. He doesn’t want to go, and he starts transforming into a wolf and kills them because it’s revealed it’s a full moon. He’s a werewolf!

Some untold time later, Vanessa goes to the same church she almost went to earlier in the season. She goes to talk to the Father, and tells him she’s scared of what she’s capable of, and tells him she believes in demons. She asks his help for an exorcism, and he asks if she really wants to be normal, but just before she responds the credits roll and we have to wait until next season.

Is it just me or is every ‘dramatic’ moment of this show pretty overtly laughable. It’s so cheesy and just bad. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m glad the season is over.

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