TY - ADVS AU - Dalton,Timothy AU - Hartnett,Josh AU - McCrory,Helen AU - Green,Eva AU - Piper,Billie AU - Carney,Reeve AU - Kinnear,Rory AU - Sapani,Danny AU - Treadaway,Harry AU - Logan,John ED - Showtime Networks. TI - Penny dreadful. The complete first season PY - 2014/// CY - Hollywood, Calif. PB - Showtime presents ; in association with Sky ; producers, James Flynn, Morgan O'Sullivan ; executive producers, John Logan, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes ; created & written by John Logan. KW - Television series KW - Vampires KW - Drama KW - Supernatural KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) KW - fast KW - London (England) KW - England KW - London N1 - DVD release of episodes originally broadcast on television in 2014; Disc one: Night work -- Seance -- Resurrection -- Disc two: Demimonde -- Closer than sisters -- What death can join together -- Possession -- Disc three: Grand guignol -- Special features : What is a penny dreadful? -- Literary roots -- Coming together -- The artisans, part 1 and 2 -- The Grand guignol -- Sex and prostitution in the Victorian age -- British exploration & the search for the Nile -- The science of medicine; Timothy Dalton, Josh Hartnett, Helen McCrory, Eva Green, Simon Russell Beale, Billie Piper, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, Danny Sapani, Harry Treadaway; MPAA rating: Not rated. Contains violence, disturbing content, and gory scenes N2 - An erotically charged, profoundly unsettling new saga that completely reinvents literature's most iconic and terrifying characters. Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, and timeless figures from Dracula join a core of original characters in a dark and brutal quest to save a soul, even as they grapple with their own monstrous temptations ER -