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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels - Season 1
Following the life of Tiago Vega and Lewis Michener, two gallant investigators in Los Angeles, who have taken the difficult homicide that causes ruin and flips around the life of individuals there, so they join to reveal secrets, has been flipped around, as they end up caught throughout the entire past of the nation.
May 6, 1986 in Long Island, New York, USA
2 February 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
17 February 1976, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
9 July 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
April 22, 2020
Less mystical than its predecessor, yet refreshingly not simply repeating a formula.
April 20, 2020
Had the series pared down its plotlines the characters could shine more, their motivations crystallize, instead of feeling like they're 20 characters in search of an exit.
April 24, 2020
[Natalie Dormer's] four performances are a real tour de force... But they're undone by Executive Producer John Logan and his writers' room, whose favorite direction is over the top.
April 20, 2020
City of Angels isn't merely good, it's divine.
April 23, 2020
It's Natalie Dormer's world, and we're all just living in it.
April 22, 2020
Surprisingly tame for a show about racial strife, Nazis, and supernatural beings.
April 24, 2020
Nobody is going to criticize you for not taking the mythology of Dracula seriously enough, but there's a wealth of Mexican-American religion and folklore that's being treated with an uncomfortable superficiality here.
April 22, 2020
This sprawling canvas, with its Chinatown vibes, violent ethnic conflicts and snarling cartoon villains, hardly needs Magda and her doppelgängers' obvious supernatural tricks to muddy the waters.
April 16, 2020
City of Angels should appeal equally to fans who loved Penny Dreadful for its moody theatricality (me) and people whose favorite musical is Guys and Dolls with a dash of West Side Story (coincidentally, also me).
April 20, 2020
In setting, tone, and several fine and evocative performances, City of Angels cements itself as a fine entrant in the horror-on-TV genre.
April 19, 2020
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels tells a cohesive, well-plotted and multilayered story. It projects the dreamlike sleep paralysis on a real screen.
April 23, 2020
It's unclear if, and how, the show can recollect the Pandora's box of horrors it's released. But Penny Dreadful: City of Angels so far offers an entertaining promise to figure it out.
