Penny Dreadful is just my jam as someone raised in the Catholic way. The main cast are all off the path for one reason or another. Their experiences are informed by guilt and their drive to atone for whatever it is they’re guilty about. I have nothing as fantastic as the horrors in their lives, but then I suppose horror is relative. I sometimes think back on things I’ve seen and done that I would never tell anyone, and wonder how they’ve shaped me. I see a distance and a monster is someone with a distance between themselves and their victims, isn’t it? A gulf that makes the horrific tolerable, if not escapable or forgivable.

I can’t say all I’d want to say yet. I start to write an observation and the show contradicts it or twists my thoughts in the next episode. So for now, yeah, it’s my jam.