Things get grim in final trailer for Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

This Sunday, Showtime treats us to Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, a new dark fantasy from John Logan, the guy behind the original Penny Dreadful, which was set in Victorian London. This new show has nothing to do with the old. We’re not in Los Angeles in the 1930s, and don’t expect to see any familiar faces making cameos.

That said, judging by the trailer, the new show will have the same rich sense of atmosphere that made the first so damn watchable, and feature the same blending of the mundane with the supernatural. In the new show, Natalie Dormer stars as Magda, a demoness determined to prove that human beings are really monsters at heart. With the show set during a period of rising nationalism and racial conflict, she has a lot to work with, and is determined to push it to the limit. Caught in the middle are human characters like fresh-faced police detective Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto), the first chicano officer in the LAPD, and his grizzled partner Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane). Take a look:

This show is going to be worth watching for Natalie Dormer’s costume changes alone. If you didn’t catch it, she was playing several characters in there — Magda takes different guises to better push human civilization to the brink of barbarity.

She’s a mild-mannered bureaucrat, an ambitious Nazi sympathizer, a Zoot suit rioter, and of course, a goddess of destruction. That shot where storefront windows burst apart as she walks by is pretty cool. And all the philosophical questions are neat, too, sure.

All in all, I’m really looking forward to this! The original show was an under-appreciated gem, and if nothing else, Logan clearly has a bold new vision for this show. It premieres on April 26.

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