Dreadful Thoughts: “Little Scorpion”

By Steph Kingston on

“Little Scorpion” may be Penny Dreadful’s shortest episode yet, clocking in at only 48 minutes, but it’s chock full of some meaningful stuff.  We spend a lot of time unpacking Ethan and Ives’ relationship, as well as finding time to discuss the finer points of tree hatred, The Flaming Pole (TM), villain monologuing, the “q” …

Dreadful Thoughts: “Glorious Horrors”

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Morning after pains abound on both this week’s episodes of Penny Dreadful and Dreadful Thoughts.  Dorian, Angelique, Malcolm, Kali, Victor, and Lily are all feeling the various pangs of post coitus, while Brad and Ash are recovering from GeeklyCon.  Things get weird listeners.  We manage to pull it together enough to disrespect the dead, talk …

Dreadful Thoughts: Evil Spirits in Heavenly Places

By Steph Kingston on

Dress shopping!  Leatherface Pinkertons! Gossamer tennis! Buttercream torte!  Witch attacks!  This episode had so many wonderful things that made us laugh, ponder, theorize, research, and generally just appreciate the fact that we get to watch this show instead of Game of Thrones.  Because seriously, we are having so much fun with this season, and this …

Dreadful Thoughts: The Nightcomers

By Steph Kingston on

Here we are, only 3 episodes into the season with a full flashback episode revealing more of Vanessa Ives’ mysterious past.  This week we discuss “The Nightcomers” and just what exactly they’re talking about with all the sister kissing.  Because really, they keep bringing it up.  Also we talk anti-Irish sentiment, cow murder, Hogwarts jokes, …

GeeklyInc Welcomes Dreadful Thoughts!

By Brad Brockway on

GeeklyInc is excited to announce a new podcast joining the network: Dreadful Thoughts.   Dreadful Thoughts is a podcast dedicated to Showtime’s Victorian horror series: Penny Dreadful .  Each week during the show’s run, hosts Ashleigh Shadowbrook, Nika Howard, Brad Brockway and Steph Kingston discuss each of  the episodes in depth, including all of the daddy issues, …