Rory Kinnear is on another level. What a truly brilliant performance as Frankenstein's Monster. His reading of this poem is nothing short of breathtaking.
I don't know if anyone else ever can recite this any better ever...his voice and accompanying his creature character made me go back to poems again, once I loved.
In the end there are no monsters. Just truly complicated individuals who are very flawed yet relatable on the most deepest of levels. Frankenstein at his core is more human then anyone.
Kinnear's performance compels me to watch Penny Dreadful about once a year. His voice reminds me that there are those who still love the English language, with its ability to move the soul. I was born a too late...
Damn one of the greatest ending narrations ever...that last line just tugs at your heart and never lets go.. :( "Where is it now? The glory and the dream?"
Nobody has ever been able to capture in a work of fiction the realism of the evil, the darkness and the cold horror of the human being and of real life like John Logan in this masterpiece.
His... voice is what makes this so hurtful, sad... and beautiful. Like a vine which makes you remember your lost ones. It tastes so good but makes you cry. You remember the happyness with them and the void they left in you. His voice is gentle and you know when you hear, he has a heart as big as lake. Filled with sadness.
there will never be a more perfect season of any show such as season 1 of Penny Dreadful. I go back to it again and again, like visiting a house you can't live in anymore. Constant reassurance. I need it.
