How It Is With Brothers Spoiler Free Preview
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
It’s Sunday which means it’s time for our Penny Dreadful: City of Angels – How It Is With Brothers Spoiler Free Preview. Episode 6 already! The season is over the halfway mark and it’s time for a very focused episode.
Synopsis
Tiago (Daniel Zovatto) and Lewis (Nathan Lane) interrogate Diego (Adan Rocha). Adelaide (Amy Madigan) warns Molly (Kerry Bishé) about her personal desires. Townsend (Michael Gladis) learns of Kurt (Dominic Sherwood)’s surprising past. Peter Craft (Rory Kinnear) makes a dramatic decision about his marriage with Linda (Piper Perabo). Maria (Adriana Barraza) tracks down Mateo (Johnathan Nieves) and pleads with him to come home.
Trailer
How it is with Brothers
The lion’s share of this episode takes place in the interrogation room at the Police station as Tiago and Lewis interrogate Diego. Given that two of the people in the room (and the audience) know that the “one who got away” was Tiago’s brother Mateo, needless to say the interactions are incredibly tense. The back and forth, veiled threats and sly wranglings keep the episode pulsing. If you thought Tiago was losing it last week, threatening people in the street etc, you’ve got a shock coming. Every scene in the station simmers with tension and all three of the actors absolutely excel. The climax of the entire episode is outstanding, with Nathan Lane’s Lewis leaving me in awe.
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LA Doesn’t Care Who You Are When You Arrive…
We only see brief snippets of the other major players during this episode. There’s little to say about their scenes that isn’t already mentioned in the synopsis above. To say much more would venture into spoiler territory.
Molly and her mother share an oddly touching, almost normal breakfast together. Almost. I still think there is far more going on with these two than we have seen so far, especially with the connection to the Haslitt murders.
Townsend and Kurt spend some time at the beach and we learn a lot more about Kurt’s past and his motivations. Dominic Sherwood fans are in for a treat in this scene, it’s visually gorgeous and gives us a deeper understanding of what’s going on with Kurt.
Craft’s midnight woodland escapades with Elsa last week have a huge impact on his family in this episode. This seems to be the slowest burn so far of the various plotlines. I think from now on we are going to see a definite escalation in “Elsa’s” plans.
I think I said in my review last week that Mateo has definitively chosen Rio and Rico over his family, and that I hoped his family will be there for him when Rio is finished with him. The scene in this episode where Maria begs him to come home shows this is true. At least at the moment. When certain secrets are revealed things will change.
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels – How It Is With Brothers airs on SHOWTIME Sunday May 31st at 10/9c. It’s available to stream now on the SHOWTIME website.
