The Showtime series Penny Dreadful has been renewed for a third season. I wonder what the plot will be now that the finale of Season 2 has so completely blown the group apart into all going their separate ways? Well, maybe we’ll see one (or all) of the following plots:
Dr. Frankenstein goes to rehab: As we all know, Dr. Frankenstein has developed an addiction to opiods via IV (I’m guessing they mean heroin, and perhaps the script writers are trying to suggest that Dr. Frankenstein invented heroin himself, in which case maybe he could easily whip up a cure to heroin addiction and be right as rain in no time!). What I see happening here is that to get revenge on him, his creatures and Dorian Gray convince Dr. Frankenstein that he imagined all the supernatural stuff due to his drug use, and they all snicker behind his back as they take him to the booby hatch and then go forth to conquer the world. Only it then turns out that he really did just imagine it all in a drug-induced fever dream, and we get the classic Mark of the Vampire-style cop-out ending horror movies used to love doing so much. And after overcoming his addiction, Dr. Frankenstein concocts the 12-step system, but because it’s a horror show, it’s the 13-step system. And he would be responsible for everyone else who is addicted to heroin if he invented it, so his creatures could form some sort of morals league to get the rabble together to hound him over another of his creations, now that he thinks his monsters were hallucinations. But in a twist, it turns out that his creations were real all along, but that the whole backstory is different, leading to Season 4 showing us what “really” happened.
Mr. Clare (The Frankenstein Monster) scores a breakout pop hit with: “The Monster Mash”, making all monsters and freaks cool and accepted, leading to the surviving Nightcomer teaming up with Vanessa to create the hit song: “Witchy Woman”, followed by Ethan creating the hit: “Werewolves of London”.
While up in the Arctic, The Frankenstein Monster becomes so bored, he invents snowboarding. Then he comes back to civilization and becomes an instant celebrity beloved by all, easily explaining away his scars and cold touch to having been crushed under an avalanche while doing a “monster” run. (Hey, how do you think the expression “monster” to describe huge came into being? This explains it!)
Ethan takes over the ship extraditing him to America and turns in into a pirate ship filled with a gang of werewolves (formerly the crew) called: “Werewolves on Waves”. (<Named after the silly schlock classic movie: Werewolves on Wheels.)
We haven’t seen Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde appear yet, so he shows up at a party with a flask of Mr. Hyde formula, and he turns the whole party into Mr. Hydes; then the old team has to get together to defeat the horde of Hydes.
Of course there is the possibility that all the characters get eaten by zombies. (Zombies are all the rage!) But because all the characters are monstrous, the zombies get indigestion, leading to them all becoming vegans.
