Īlthough Brona renounced her words to Ethan the next morning, her illness was getting rapidly worse. Shortly thereafter, she collapsed on the street, coughing up blood where she fell. Apparently upset by Ethan and Vanessa's relationship (which she perceived as more than a collegial friendship), she left running and, when confronted by Ethan, proceeded to dump him, calling herself a living skeleton. Įthan and Brona went to the Grand Guignol Theatre, where they met Dorian Gray and Vanessa Ives. She continued to work as a prostitute and accepted a naked modeling job offered by Dorian Gray, with whom she had sex after discovering that he was not afraid of her illness. While renting a room in the Mariner's Inn by the Thames, she met Ethan Chandler with whom she formed an intimate relationship despite her failing health thanks to the onset of consumption. Upon regaining consciousness later that night, she rushed home, only to find that her baby had been left too long and had died of the cold after her unattended coal fire had died down. On a particularly cold night, she was savagely beaten by a client and left for dead. She did what she could to support herself and her baby, but times were hard and selling her body on the streets meant lengthy absences from her child. Instead, she fled and exploited herself for the first time.Īfter having taken up residence in London, Brona gave birth to a baby girl. After a bad beating, she ran to her mother for support, but instead she was told to go back and get married to the brute. She was engaged to a brutal shipyard laborer who abused her. Now enlightened, she seeks to bring in a new age led by immortals.īrona is known to have lived in Belfast. She pledged to kneel to no man ever again, but they to her. Embracing her power as an immortal and her position as a woman, she channeled her rage by overpowering and killing men she lured. Observing how society and its men mistreat and disregard women, her rage festered. Brona quickly deduced the circumstances of her resurrection, with Victor as her creator, yet kept that knowledge to herself. As Lily Frankenstein, she has been polite and courteous initially, and then a darker, more violent character began to surface. Since Brona's "rebirth" as Lily at the hands of Victor Frankenstein, her personality has undergone a drastic change. Her beautiful appearance is stained by the marks of tuberculosis, an illness (known at the time as consumption) which is untreatable for the poor. She forms a bond with Ethan Chandler, who will do anything for her. The Gaelic meaning of her name is "sadness", yet she remains lovely, spirited, and erotically alive. I can't see love triangles or any soap opera clichés on the horizon and that makes me optimistic.Brona is a poor Irish immigrant in Victorian London, trying to escape a dark and sordid past. It's gritty, filthy, and utterly captivating. This show loves the grotesque and downright sinister nature of storytelling and can depend on its actors to do the job right. This show is definitely not your average telling of famous stories (vampires, Dorian Gray) as it takes the most gruesome aspects of those tales and incorporates them in whatever manner suits the storyline Penny Dreadful does not shy away from the taboo, something that has been plaguing certain stories such as Frankenstein and Dorian Gray. Just stunning work by her in the séance scene. By the end of the second episode, I was totally hooked by Eva Green's performance alone. At first, I was like, "Oh gods above not another vampire show" - boy, was I wrong. The pilot episode was a typical getting-to-know-you episode where it introduces most of the characters and some intriguing aspects.
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