Warning: Fullfor Penny Dreadful Season 1 follow, so fill not our boards with pitiful sorrow...

American Werewolf in London

"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. Or even when I'm not angry probably. Like say I'm just sitting by myself. Drinking."

League It Up

"You came to the wrong neighborhood, motherf***er."

With Showtime's haunting and mesmerizing Penny Dreadful wrapping up its first season this past weekend, it's time to look ahead. John Logan's (Skyfall, The Last Samurai) gothic, poetic horror series was picked up for a 10-episode Season 2 and so we've been scraping our skulls and searching our souls to come up with a wish list for next year's run of vampires, demons, wolfmen, and walking dead.Dracula's still out there, guys. So's Satan. And Ethan's been tearing up the town, literally, as a wolf. Caliban's about to be eternally paired with Brona and Dorian probably has a lot of moping to do after being rejected by Vanessa. If Season 1 was about trying to rescue Mina, then a big part of Season 2 could most likely be about Malcolm wanting revenge on "the Master." Let's dig in, hold hands for a séance, and dream big. Here's what we want from Penny Dreadful Season 2.While the season finale reveal of Ethan being a werwolf didn't come as a surprise to everyone, there's still a lot of story to explore here. We still need Ethan's past filled in. Not just the wolf part, but his role in the Indian Wars. And his falling out with his father. His fugitive status. And - oh yeah - how he's able to perform a quick, intense exorcism at the drop of a demonic dime.So how about an entire episode devoted to pre-London Ethan? In the same way "Closer Than Sisters" explored Vanessa's relationship with the Murray family and her time in the asylum. I think Ethan's proven to be more than a trick-shooting one-trick pony.John Logan has fully admitted that Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a big influence on the premise. And we definitely heard the revving of the "team-up" engine in Season 1 whenever our main characters went out on a Mina hunt.But we also know that the show goes by its own pace and doesn't rush to provide fan service. So while Malcolm, Ethan, Vanessa and Victor came together to battle vampires - they did while not knowing each others' secrets. Ethan didn't fight vamps as a wolfman. Caliban didn't enter the fray and rip monsters apart with his scientifically souped-up strength. Dorian didn't use (what I'm assuming is) his immortality and knack for instant healing. And perhaps Vanessa, who looks like she's on the road to accepting the literal Devil inside of her, could come to use her inner-demon as a weapon. Because, as I mentioned in one of my reviews, if both The Devil and Dracula want her, they're going to be at odds.If Dracula is truly being built up as the series' grand antagonist (which I love) then it's going to take everyone pooling their powers to bring him down. And that means everyone learning about everyone. Still though, could this be too much of a rush for Season 2 given the way the show holds back on revelations and pays things off at its own pace? Perhaps. Season 2 is longer than Season 1, but only by two episodes.I suppose this is something that we'd love to happen eventually.

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