Penny Dreadful Season 2 New Trailer, Synopsis, Promo Photos, And Spoilers  

Penny Dreadful Season 2 New Trailer, Synopsis, Promo Photos, And Spoilers [VIDEO]

"Penny Dreadful" was Showtime\'s unexpected breakout hit this past year, and has been renewed for a longer second season with an expected release date in January 2015.

"Penny Dreadful" is essentially a Victorian Era mashup, stories involve popular characters such as Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, Dorian Gray, and Victor Frankenstein and his monster. Its funny that this concept ended the career of one James Bond, Sean Connery in "League of Extrodinary Gentleman," and is reinvigorating the career of another James Bond, Timothy Dalton.

The most recent news from the show is that the season 2 teaser trailer has been released, and you can watch it below.

The first images from season 2 have just been made public. John Logan, series creator and executive producer, says , "This season Vanessa and Ethan face new challenges, and old enemies, and turn to each other for solace. Their intimacy grows as they are forced to confront their demons together."

Starz has also released a synopsis for sason 2, reading, "This season, Vanessa and Ethan form a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr. Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), and Sembene (Danny Sapani), unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), the Creature (Rory Kinnear) and Brona (Billie Piper) are all waging battles of their own. Patti LuPone will guest star as a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessa\'s past. Helen McCrory returns as Evelyn Poole (a.k.a. Madame Kali), the seductive spiritualist who will pose a unique threat to our protagonists this season, along with Simon Russell Beale, who is back as eccentric Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle. Additional guest stars include Douglas Hodge as a Scotland Yard investigator; Sarah Greene as Poole\'s powerful daughter, Hecate; and Johnny Beauchamp as a man with a singular past.

Created by screenwriter and playwright John Logan and executive produced by Logan and "Skyfall" director Sam Mendes, "Penny Dreadful" drew 4.8 million weekly viewers across platforms.

Eva Green has talked a little bit about how Vanessa and Ethan\'s (Josh Hartnett relationship "is going to be very much explored.They\'re going to get closer," Green said. "It\'s a very beautiful relationship." You can watch the full interview here.

The show has relased its first teaser trailer for season 2, which you can watch below. Patti Lupone has joined the series as a character close to Eva Green\'s Vanessa, "a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessa\'s past." "Vikings" alum Sarah Greene will play Hecate, the "powerful" daughter of Helen McCrory\'s Evelyn Poole.

According to a recent interview with the Huffington Post, show creator John Logan said, "I think I feel the freedom to explore the sacred texts a little more -- those texts being "Dracula," "Frankenstein" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Now that I\'ve brought this family together, I can pull at them in different directions. I can set characters in opposition in ways they haven\'t been yet. I can bring characters who haven\'t met together and sort of play the game more complexly. To me, the first season was about putting the pieces on the board. Now I get to play with them."

"Yes. I figured out the cosmology of the show for three years. I always envisioned the first season as being about the hunt for Mina and the chief antagonists would be vampires. In the second season, I wanted a human -- an almost human, or

 human -- antagonist, and that was going to be Madame Kali, whom we met in the second episode of Season 1.

I only wanted Helen McGrory to play her. I\'ve worked with her twice before. She\'s a brilliant actress and I knew what I wanted this character to do in the second season. So thankfully, she signed up for the two episodes in the first season, and then she\'s a series regular in Season 2, as an antagonist. Simon Russell Beale comes back as well, and I think he\'s in eight of the 10 episodes. He\'s the Egyptologist and he weaves into the plot a lot. And there are a couple more [new characters] as well. New villains, new challenges, new adventures to come."

"The uniqueness of TV is that you\'re telling an ongoing story," claimed series creator John Logan during an interview in the October issue of Variety.

So everything is pointing to a bigger world and more complex cosmology this season. Which will be interesting to see how the rules of the supernatural work in this universe.

Douglas Hodge will play Bartholomew Rusk, an "intense Scotland Yard investigator on the hunt to discover who is responsible for the terrible murders that have been plaguing London." Lastly, newcomer Jonny Beauchamp will play a "young man with a singular past."

EnStarz speculates, "The fact that the characters are still pretty bundled up halfway through the season suggests that most of the new episodes will take place in the winter. This means that the whole of the season will be covering a pretty short amount of time. King also shared two less telling photos over the weekend, including one of a prop he teased as being "Sir Malcolm\'s new pet" and one of himself attending the

 Christmas party on their Dublin set, which was designed to look like an old London street."

New spoilers for the upcoming season suggest that Caliban will have a larger role next year and some fans are wondering if he\'ll terrorize London with his new bride, Brona. Also, Eva Green was spotted filming in Dublin as well.

Check Back for more "Penny Dreadful" season 2 updates as they become available.

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