"Penny Dreadful" Season 1, Episode 6, "What death can join together", Showtime/Sky, review

Great things about Episode 6:

• Director Coky Giedroyc directed the excellent BBC mini series "What Remains" (2013)
• Billie Piper's realistic consumptive cough
• Beautifully underplayed scene between The Creature (Rory Kinnear) and Maude in his "Phantom of the Opera"-inspired under the theatre digs. Kinnear's plaintive, anguished humming was a nice touch.
• The original "Varney the Vampire" penny dreadful gets a mention from Van Helsing.
• The line from Dorian Gray about him preferring paintings to photography.
• The nifty attack of the white-haired harpy/vampires in the ship's hold (shapely Morlocks?)
• Dorian Gray's vast candlelit portrait room
• The rough sex scene between Vanessa  and Dorian (a dagger as a sex toy?)

"What Remains" Episode 4, final

It amazes me that BBC can produce such puerile dross as "Big School" as well as a series as brilliant as "What Remains". This four parter was a moody, atmospheric (check out creepy art direction of the stairwell), slowly paced affair with a rip snorting conclusion. Roman Polanski meets the archetypal Brit damaged/obsessed copper.
Harper's plaintive: "I don't want to be alone" will stay with you.