Reeve Carney Teases Penny Dreadful Season 2 in a Roundtable with the Dreadfuls

Debi Moore |

Feb 14, 2015

If you’re all caught up and ready for the next season of “Penny Dreadful” to begin on its recently announced May 3rd return date, then you’ll want to check out this video from Showtime in which a group of “Dreadfuls” (i.e., super-fans) get the opportunity to discuss the show with Reeve Carney, who portrays Dorian Gray.

Most of it is a rehash of Season 1, but toward the end of the roundtable discussion Carney does tease a bit about what’s ahead: While Season 1 was about bringing together the “family,” Season 2 deals heavily in the occult; evil is given a face: Madame Kali, someone who can be considered a “pure villain.”

In the upcoming season Vanessa (Eva Green) and Ethan (Josh Hartnett) form a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr. Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), and Sembene (Danny Sapani), unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), the Creature (Rory Kinnear), and Brona (Billie Piper) are all waging battles of their own.

Patti LuPone will guest star as a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessa’s past. Helen McCrory returns as Evelyn Poole (a.k.a. Madame Kali), the seductive spiritualist who will pose a unique threat to our protagonists this season, along with Simon Russell Beale, who is back as eccentric Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle. Additional guest stars include Douglas Hodge as a Scotland Yard investigator; Sarah Greene as Poole’s powerful daughter, Hecate; and Johnny Beauchamp as a man with a singular past.

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