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* MagicalJew: Although he's probably one of the least supernatural characters, Lewis Michener is both a mentor to Tiago Vega and very Jewish. He's a bit of an AlterKocker and [[spoiler: when he sees the burned, assassinated bodies of two of his friends, tears his coat in ''keriyah'' and recites Kaddish for them]].
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''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}. The series takes place about 40 years after its parent series in 1930s Los Angeles, in a time and place "deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension". The series stars Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others.
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''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}. The series takes place about 40 years after its parent series in 1930s Los Angeles, in a time and place "deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension". The series stars starring Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others.
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40 years, an ocean, and a continent away from Main/VictorianLondon awaits 1930s Los Angeles, a city steeped in corruption and tension beneath the glamour of Hollywood magic. Tiago Vega has just been made the LAPD's first Mexican detective when he's brought in on his day off to investigate a gruesome murder. One centered around Mexican-American folklore and a key figure Santa Muerte.
As Detective Vega and his partner hunt for the killer, tensions rise over the construction of California's first highway as Nazism in Europe spreads making its way across the seas to America. As the city teeters on the edge, supernatural forces beyond its citizens belief work behind the scenes as they pushes Los Angeles towards chaos...
40 years, an ocean, and a continent away from Main/VictorianLondon awaits 1930s Los Angeles, a city steeped in corruption and tension beneath the glamour of Hollywood magic. Tiago Vega has just been made the LAPD's first Mexican detective when he's brought in on his day off to investigate a gruesome murder. One centered around Mexican-American folklore and a key figure Santa Muerte.
As Detective Vega and his partner hunt for the killer, tensions rise over the construction of California's first highway as Nazism in Europe spreads making its way across the seas to America. As the city teeters on the edge, supernatural forces beyond its citizens belief work behind the scenes as they pushes Los Angeles towards chaos...
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* ArtifactTitle: Unlike [[Series/PennyDreadful its predecessor]], neither the setting, the tone, or the plot of the show are related to penny dreadfuls. If anything, it's much closer to [[PulpMagazine pulp]].
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* ArtifactTitle: Unlike [[Series/PennyDreadful its predecessor]], neither the setting, the tone, or the plot of the show are related to penny dreadfuls. If anything, it's much closer to [[PulpMagazine pulp]].pulp]]...which is rather appropriate as [[FridgeBrilliance "pulp magazines" replaced penny dreadfuls and dime novels in the early 20th century as the most popular form of cheap literature.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sister Molly shares aesthetic similarities to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson Aimee Semple McPherson]], a radio evangelist based in Los Angeles in the 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. Her mother Adelaide appears to be loosely based on McPherson's mother, Mildred Kennedy.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sister Molly shares aesthetic similarities to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson Aimee Semple McPherson]], a radio evangelist based in Los Angeles in the 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. Her mother Adelaide appears to be loosely based on McPherson's [=McPherson's=] mother, Mildred Kennedy.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sister Molly shares aesthetic similarities to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson Aimee Semple McPherson]], a radio evangelist based in Los Angeles in the 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. Her mother Adelaide appears to be loosely based on McPherson's mother, Mildred Kennedy.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: Lewis realizes that the LAPD sent him and Tiago to investigate the murders because it's purportedly a "spic thing", but he physically defends Tiago against other racist cops and is secretly investigating the Nazi conspiracy in Los Angeles.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: Lewis realizes that the LAPD sent him and Tiago to investigate the murders because it's purportedly a "spic thing", but he physically defends Tiago against other racist cops and is secretly investigating the Nazi conspiracy in Los Angeles.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Miss Adelaide, for Sister Molly. Adelaide is incredibly manipulative, controlling who Molly speaks to and what she does, and has apparently been pushing her daughter into the spotlight since the age of four.
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* ArtifactTitle: Unlike [[Series/PennyDreadful is predecessor]], neither the setting, the tone, or the plot of the show are related to penny dreadfuls. If anything, it's much closer to [[PulpMagazine pulp]].
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* ArtifactTitle: Unlike [[Series/PennyDreadful is its predecessor]], neither the setting, the tone, or the plot of the show are related to penny dreadfuls. If anything, it's much closer to [[PulpMagazine pulp]].
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* ArtifactTitle: Unlike [[Series/PennyDreadful is predecessor]], neither the setting, the tone, or the plot of the show are related to penny dreadfuls. If anything, it's much closer to [[PulpMagazine pulp]].
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* FalseFlagOperation: Lewis quickly tags onto the fact that a rich white family being butchered, and then decorated with Mexican face paint and left with a message written in Spanish, is clearly meant to shift blame for the crime onto the Mexican community and cover up something else.
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* ScamReligion: Lewis is convinced that Sister Molly's church is this.
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* CopKiller: [[spoiler:Raúl is turned into one briefly during the riot in the pilot, forcing Tiago to kill him to defend his partner.]]
* TheCorruptor: Magda can influence people into giving into their most violent impulses.
* TheCorruptor: Magda can influence people into giving into their most violent impulses.
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* CopKiller: [[spoiler:Raúl is turned into one briefly during the riot in the pilot, forcing Tiago to kill shoot him to defend his partner.]]
* TheCorruptor: Magda can influence people into giving into their most violent impulses. Her various personae also do this to varying degrees, especially Alex for Councilman Townsend.
* TheCorruptor: Magda can influence people into giving into their most violent impulses. Her various personae also do this to varying degrees, especially Alex for Councilman Townsend.
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* GratuitousLatin: Maria, as a Catholic, prays at her son's bedside in Latin.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: The Vega boys for each other and their youngest sister Josefina.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: The Vega boys for each other and their youngest younger sister Josefina.
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* CopKiller: [[spoiler:Raúl is turned into one briefly during the riot in the pilot, forcing Tiago to kill him to defend his partner.]]
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* InvisibleToNormals: Both Santa Muerte and Magda appear able to render themselves invisible at their choice.
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* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Latin Americans speak in non-subtitled Spanish when not in English.
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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Tiago has the burned scar of fingers and a thumb of a hand on his left pectoral from where Santa Muerte shoved him away from his father's burning body.
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** Councilman Townsend is a good old red-blooded American man... who thinks that Mussolini and Hitler are great role models.
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** Councilman Townsend is a good old red-blooded an American man... who thinks that Mussolini and Hitler are great role models. However, he is ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' willing to be an actual Nazi.
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* DontFearTheReaper: Santa Muerte plays a prominent role in the series. She's depicted as a benevolent figure, being attributed to taking people to heaven when they die.
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* TheGrimReaper: Santa Muerte plays a prominent role in the series. Unlike most depictions of death, she's depicted as a benevolent figure, being attributed to taking people to heaven when they die.
* InNameOnly: Quite literally. The name and the fact it has supernatural elements are the only things it has in common with the parent series.
* InNameOnly: Quite literally. The name and the fact it has supernatural elements are the only things it has in common with the parent series.
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** Richard Goss is the Fuhrer's personal road construction manager, in Los Angeles to measure Wiltshire Boulevard for a victory parade and bribe the head of the city council.
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** Richard Goss is the Fuhrer's personal road construction manager, in Los Angeles to measure Wiltshire Boulevard for a victory parade and bribe the head of the city council.council.
* VillainProtagonist: Magda is the primary villain to start with, but also a focus character herself.
* VillainProtagonist: Magda is the primary villain to start with, but also a focus character herself.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Councilman Townsend has no problem forcing minority communities out of their homes to build freeways if it advances his political career, but he balks at helping Nazi agents prepare for a takeover of the country, only doing do under threat of death.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The parent series was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of classic horror literature about the supernatural. This series consists of entirely original characters in a drama about racial tensions, with seemingly tacked-on supernatural elements. While it as a series could very easily stand on it's own merits, it doesn't show any signs of even existing in the same continuity as the parent series.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The parent series was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of classic horror literature about the supernatural. This series consists of entirely original characters in a drama about racial tensions, with seemingly tacked-on supernatural elements. While it as a series could very easily stand on it's own merits, it doesn't show any signs of even existing in the same continuity setting as the parent series.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The parent series was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of classic horror literature about the supernatural. This series consists of entirely original characters in a drama about racial tensions, with seemingly tacked-on supernatural elements. While it as a series could very easily stand on it's own merits, it doesn't even show any signs of even existing in the same continuity as the parent series.
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** SpiritualSuccessor: ''City of Angels'' seems to be this to the original ''Series/PennyDreadful''. It's also got strong elements of the book/film ''Film/LAConfidential'' and ''Series/{{Carnivale}}''.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: The Vega boys for each other and their youngest sister Josefina.
* BodyHorror: Whatever the heck Elsa Brenson does to her son, [[spoiler: absorbing him into her body through her stomach]].
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* MythologyGag: The presence of Rory Kinnear, who played the Creature/Caliban/John Clare in the original ''Series/PennyDreadful'', could indicate a connection between the series, or it could just be Kinnear and Logan's ProductionPosse rearing its head.
** The scene of Maria Vega praying to Santa Muerte is almost a shot-for-shot re-creation of the scene in the original show when Vanessa Ives is praying to have her possession lifted.
** Ethan Chandler and Tiago Vega are both honorable men chosen by a higher power - Ethan as Lupus Dei and Tiago marked by Santa Muerte.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The parent series was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of classic horror literature about the supernatural. This series consists of entirely original characters in a drama about racial tensions, with seemingly tacked-on supernatural elements. While it as a series could very easily stand on it's own merits, it doesn't even show any signs of existing in the same continuity as the parentseries.series.
* StringTheory: Detective Michener has a red string board full of clues linking the Arroyo Freeway project, Richard Goss, Peter Kraft, the SS, and more potential homicides like the Santa Muerte murders.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Set in 1938, many characters have ties to the actual Third Reich.
** [[spoiler: Peter Kraft]] is a member of the "German-American Bund", a real organization in 1938. He has a uniform similar to an SS uniform and a swastika flag in his closet.
** Councilman Townsend is a good old red-blooded American man... who thinks that Mussolini and Hitler are great role models.
** Richard Goss is the Fuhrer's personal road construction manager, in Los Angeles to measure Wiltshire Boulevard for a victory parade and bribe the head of the city council.
** The scene of Maria Vega praying to Santa Muerte is almost a shot-for-shot re-creation of the scene in the original show when Vanessa Ives is praying to have her possession lifted.
** Ethan Chandler and Tiago Vega are both honorable men chosen by a higher power - Ethan as Lupus Dei and Tiago marked by Santa Muerte.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The parent series was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of classic horror literature about the supernatural. This series consists of entirely original characters in a drama about racial tensions, with seemingly tacked-on supernatural elements. While it as a series could very easily stand on it's own merits, it doesn't even show any signs of existing in the same continuity as the parent
* StringTheory: Detective Michener has a red string board full of clues linking the Arroyo Freeway project, Richard Goss, Peter Kraft, the SS, and more potential homicides like the Santa Muerte murders.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Set in 1938, many characters have ties to the actual Third Reich.
** [[spoiler: Peter Kraft]] is a member of the "German-American Bund", a real organization in 1938. He has a uniform similar to an SS uniform and a swastika flag in his closet.
** Councilman Townsend is a good old red-blooded American man... who thinks that Mussolini and Hitler are great role models.
** Richard Goss is the Fuhrer's personal road construction manager, in Los Angeles to measure Wiltshire Boulevard for a victory parade and bribe the head of the city council.
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* TheGrimReaper: Santa Muerte plays a prominent role in the series. Unlike most depictions of death, she's depicted as a benevolent figure.
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* TheGrimReaper: Santa Muerte plays a prominent role in the series. Unlike most depictions of death, she's depicted as a benevolent figure.figure, being attributed to taking people to heaven when they die.
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* BilingualBonus: ''City of Angels'' takes place in Los Angeles, whose name is Spanish for "The Angels."
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* InNameOnly: Quite literally. The name and the fact it has supernatural elements are the only things it has in common with the parent series.
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-> ''"All mankind needs to be the monster he truly is... is being told he can."''
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* TheCorruptor: Magda can influence people into giving into their most violent impulses.
* DarkIsEvil: Magda wears a lot of black and is the most malevolent force in the series.
* DarkIsEvil: Magda wears a lot of black and is the most malevolent force in the series.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The parent series was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of classic horror literature about the supernatural. This series consists of entirely original characters in a drama about racial tensions, with seemingly tacked-on supernatural elements. While it as a series could very easily stand on it's own merits, it doesn't even show any signs of existing in the same continuity as the parent series.
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* TheGrimReaper: Santa Muerte plays a prominent role in the series. Unlike most depictions of death, she's depicted as a benevolent figure.
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* TheGrimReaper: Santa Muerte plays a prominent role in the series. Unlike most depictions of death, she's depicted as a benevolent figure.figure.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The parent series was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of classic horror literature about the supernatural. This series consists of entirely original characters in a drama about racial tensions, with seemingly tacked-on supernatural elements.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The parent series was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of classic horror literature about the supernatural. This series consists of entirely original characters in a drama about racial tensions, with seemingly tacked-on supernatural elements.
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''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}. The series takes place about 50 years after its parent series in 1930s Los Angeles, in a time and place "deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension". The series stars Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others.
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''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}. The series takes place about 50 40 years after its parent series in 1930s Los Angeles, in a time and place "deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension". The series stars Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others.
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''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}. The series takes place about 50 years after its parent series in 1930s Los Angeles, in a time and place "deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension". The series stars Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others.
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!!''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'' includes examples of:
* TheGreatDepression: The series is set towards the end of The Great Depression, with the rising prominence of Nazis.
* TheGrimReaper: Santa Muerte plays a prominent role in the series. Unlike most depictions of death, she's depicted as a benevolent figure.
[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}. The series takes place about 50 years after its parent series in 1930s Los Angeles, in a time and place "deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension". The series stars Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others.
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!!''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'' includes examples of:
* TheGreatDepression: The series is set towards the end of The Great Depression, with the rising prominence of Nazis.
* TheGrimReaper: Santa Muerte plays a prominent role in the series. Unlike most depictions of death, she's depicted as a benevolent figure.
