Browsing: dark

A ‘penny dreadful’ is a type of 19th-century cheap British fiction publication not unlike a serial magazine story with lurid and sensational subject matter, often times being dark and devilish. Showtime’s Penny Dreadful draws upon many public domain characters of the time, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Mina Harker and […]

NBC is having a field day with shows of a darker nature.  They MUST be, because after so many decades of the ‘gritty’ crime drama procedurals and the medical shows and the recent hit of Hannibal based on the book series by Thomas Harris, they’re going full on into the dark. Here we have Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as a […]