The life of Tiago Vega and Lewis Michener, two courageous detectives in Los Angeles, who have taken the challenging murder that causes havoc and turns upside down the life of people there, so they unite to solve mysteries, has been turned upside down, as they find themselves trapped in the history of the country.
Critics Of "Penny Dreadful: City of Angels - Season 1"
Hollywood Reporter
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.
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.
[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.
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.
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).
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.
