(Eva Green as Vanessa Ives in “Penny Dreadful”)
Two critically-acclaimed series will return on M-Net Edge this week.
The final season of the psychological horror Penny Dreadful
returns on July 11 at 22h00, while the Golden Globe Award winning Mr. Robot
starts Express from the US on July 15 at 03h00 and in Prime Time on July 21 at
21h00.
Penny Dreadful returns with ten episodes and
will find Vanessa Ives and Ethan Chandler forming a deeper bond as the group,
including Sir Malcolm, Dr. Frankenstein, and Sembene, unite to banish the evil
forces that threaten to destroy them. Across town, Dorian Gray, the Creature
and Brona continue to wage battles of their own. Where today’s grisly thrillers
seem to churn out gruesome imagery, Penny Dreadful is a surreal,
supernatural tale that builds its scares carefully, adding genuine unease- and
foreboding-to the blood and gore.
Guest stars in the new season include Patti LuPone, as a mysterious
character from Vanessa’s past, Helen McCrory as the seductive spiritualist who
poses a unique threat to the protagonists and Simon Russell Beale, who returns
as the eccentric Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle.
The series features Josh Hartnett as Ethan Chandler, Timothy Dalton as
Sir Malcolm Murray, Eva Green as Vanessa Ives, Reeve Carney as Dorian Gray,
Rory Kinnear as The Creature/Caliban, Billie Piper as Brona Croft, Danny Sapani
as Sembene and Harry Treadaway as Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
Penny Dreadful is created, written and executive
produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (The Aviator, Gladiator),
alongside Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Pippa
Harris (Revolutionary Road, Call The Midwife).
Considered as one of the top
new thrillers of 2015 in the USA, Mr. Robot has
also nabbed Golden Globe Awards for Best Drama and Best Performance
by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Christian Slater). Lead actor Rami Malek was
nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance on the show, and was rumored
to have given some veteran TV actors some serious competition.
A reclusive, seemingly ordinary programming prodigy and
vigilante hacker named Elliot is sucked into a cyber-conspiracy, when the
leader of an underground organisation, calling themselves fsociety, recruits
him to destroy the very corporation he was getting paid to secure. Compelled by
his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the
multinational CEOs that he believes are running (and ruining) the world, but
with lingering family issues, troubling mental health concerns and the various
agendas of everyone involved, the delicate balance between reality and illusion
quickly become blurred.
Season 2 finds Elliot secluded from the world, and demanding
more answers from the mysterious Mr. Robot, while fsociety deliver yet
another malicious payload. The cast includes: Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson,
Christian Slater as the Leader of fsociety, Portia Doubleday as Angela, Carly
Chaikin as Darlene, Martin Wallström as Tyrell Wellick and Grace Gummer as
Dominique (Dom) DiPierro.
Note that the first and last episodes of Mr. Robot
Season 2 have been scheduled as two-hour long episodes, which then means that
the additional repeat of Ray Donovan will fall away on these days (July 15
and September 16).
For the
most updated schedules and more information about Penny Dreadful and Mr. Robot go to mnet.tv . Follow M-Net on Twitter @MNet (#PennyDreadful #MrRobot
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