Creator John Logan on returning to the world of PennyDreadful with a new story, the challenges he faced — as a white Angeleno — building a story world steeped in Mexican-American culture and the classic cinematic representations of L.A. that inspired him
returns to the premium cable network as an unexpected anthology of sorts as John Logan trades Frankenstein in Victorian England in the late 1800s for a story about L.A.'s Mexican-American folklore roots, circa 1938. , the new take — bowing April 26 — is described as a "spiritual descendant" of creator John Logan's original. Save for Rory Kinnear's John Clare, the drama features an entirely new cast but keeps the thematic roots of the original.kicks off with a murder.
The macabre elements of the Eva Green-led original return in the form of Magda, a shapeshifting demon , and her Catholic deity sister, Santa Muerte . To hear Logan tell it, the melodramatic and pulpy plot elements that also fed the first series could feed intobut the new take will ultimately explore the sociopolitical threats America continues to face today.
"I’m struck by parallels to the late ’30s and what’s going on now," Logan said in January at TCA. "Particularly, the rise of extremist political hatred, of a sort of racist demagoguery that is taken for granted, by the pernicious influence in the danger of a foreign power in our electoral process, in our communication, and particularly by the marginalization and victimization of an ethnic community.
, in their literary form, were shocking provocations, whereas people were bringing crime and murder and the supernatural into their own homes for the first time. And crime and the supernatural are a part of this show. The firstin being a Gothic romance, had actual monsters and manifestations of familiar literary forms. In this story, we don't do any of that. The monsters are all, more or less, human. It fits under the same rubric.
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