News reports aside, there was nothing scarier on television this year than Showtime’s gothic horror story “Penny Dreadful.” And there was no more powerful a performance than that of its star, the riveting Eva Green (pictured above), as tormented heroine Vanessa Ives, a woman at once battling inner demons and monstrous outside forces that would destroy her, all the while mixing it up with monsters drawn from English literature, timeless legends and the Universal Studios horror movies of the ‘30s.
The Top 25 Shows of 2015, No. 10: Showtime’s Scary “Penny Dreadful”
