Episode three revealed to me why I can't fully gel with this show (how the hell am I enjoying Penny Dreadful more than this?) and for me it's the unbelievable, awful, stilted, no-one-would-ever-say-that dialogue between the park staffers. Everything to do with the hardened android wrangler and the "sassy" programmer made me tune out due to their fake asses. Hopkins delivered a three minute monologue and we along with Jeffrey ask monosyllabic questions. Maybe I've been overrating J Nolan's characters since Memento if he's okaying these cardboard cutouts and lame ass info dumps.
The editing is also so choppy quick you know someone with ADD is at the helm, not to the level of that infamous Taken 3 clip but it's up there even in basic dialogue scenes.
It's pulp that wants to be so much more imho. I'll keep watching because I honestly enjoy R rated hardcore western violence and this is delivering the GOODS, but its central mystery and attempt at dramatic delivery are super stale.
