'Penny Dreadful: City of Angels' is a 'spiritual descendant' to the Showtime show set in Los Angeles in the late 1930s starring Natalie Dormer.
,"won't have any callbacks, Easter Eggs or direct connections to the original 2014-2016 series."
Franchise creator John Logan told the website in January 2020:"As fond as I am about that series, that was a complete novel. It closed at the end, appropriately with that story, that poetic sad story we were telling."However, the new show will share thematic similarities with, and its first season sees a cast member from the original series returning.
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