History Series / PennyDreadfulCityOfAngels

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In her Rio guise, Magda kills [[spoiler: Fly Rico]] in the season finale, as his pacifistic ways are now a hindrance to her plans.

** Peter is portrayed as head of the German-American Bund in LA, though opposed to key Nazi doctrines. The organization was pro-Nazi from the beginning, headed by Nazis and begun under their order. Here it's portrayed more as a kind of German-American fraternal organization with Nazi sympathizers who are members but no full commitment to Nazism.

''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}, starring Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others. It was cancelled after only one season.

''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}, starring Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others. Compared to its popular predecessor, the show was met with mixed audience reactions, and was cancelled after only one season.

''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}. starring Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others. Compared to its popular predecessor, the show was met with mixed audience reactions, and was cancelled after only one season.

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 push Los Angeles towards chaos...

''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'', a spin-off of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is a Horror series which premiered in 2020 on Creator/{{Showtime}}. starring Creator/NatalieDormer, Creator/NathanLane, and Daniel Zovatto, among others.

* DownerEnding: The season ends on one hell of a note.[[spoiler: Magda's machinations bear fruit as he race riots propel Councilman Townsend closer to his goal of becoming mayor, Peter has started on the path to full-fledged Nazism thanks to Magda/Elsa's manipulations, Molly is dead by her own hand thanks to her mother, thus leaving Tiago devastated, Lewis is forced to shoot Brian, the student he spent so much time protecting, after he finds out he knows how to make an atomic bomb, Magda herself has seemingly set her sights on Tiago, and to cap it all off, the freeway's construction starts, the sight of the neighborhood being demolished rubbing salt in the wound. Tia The only real bright spots are that Mateo reconciles with his family, and that Lewis and Tiago are still in the game.]]

* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Townsend takes Kurt to a secret LGBT club in LA. It has an alarm that goes off to announce police raids-at that point all same-sex couples switch immediately to dancing with opposite-sex partners. Kurt mentions that all such clubs in Berlin have been shut down under the Nazi Party. It's more realistic than the usual portrayal however, as the patrons seem to be entirely {{lipstick lesbian}}s and {{straight gay}} men, with nothing more than dancing as a woman signs (which is basically the same as the straight dance clubs in the '30s).

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.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Officer Reilly gets stabbed repeatedly, his head almost severed, courtesy of a vengeful Mateo. [[AssholeVictim He]] thoroughly deserved it, however.]]

* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Latin Americans speak in non-subtitled Spanish when not in English.

* GayConservative: Townsend, who's a conservative member of the LA city council, is also gay. While this is 1938 so most people wouldn't be accepting of this (including liberals) he's got no problem working with Nazis, whose homophobia was ''much'' worse than in the US then. His lover Kurt, meanwhile, ''is'' a Nazi (with the Gestapo) who works for the cause nonetheless. They don't comment on this explicitly, although Kurt mentions that all LGBT clubs have been shut down in Berlin after Townsend takes him to one. Kurt's boss doesn't seem to mind this, even getting Kurt into a relationship with Townsend for blackmail material.

* KosherNostra: After he stumbles upon the Nazi presence in LA, Lewis calls in local gangster Benny Berman, namedropping both MurderInc and [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Meyer]] [[TheConsigliere Lansky]] as allies of Berman's.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Peter Kraft served in World War 1 as a medic, and the experience clearly traumatized him, especially when he discusses his past with Elsa in Episode 8. Having seen the [[WarIsHell horrors of war]] firsthand, and after he [[spoiler: abandoned his birth name of Krupp and]] emigrated to the US, he joined the German-American Bund in a desire to keep his new home country out of another war and the same thing from happening to his own boys.

* ShoutOut: The kidnapping and murder of a girl mentioned in the series is clearly based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker Marion Park case]].

* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Townsend takes Kurt to a secret LGBT club in LA. It has an alarm that goes off to announce police raids-at that point all same-sex couples switch immediately to dancing with opposite-sex partners. Kurt mentions that all such clubs in Berlin have been shut down under the Nazi Party.

* 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.

* WhereEveryoneKnowsYourFlame: Townsend takes Kurt to a secret LGBT club in LA. It has an alarm that goes off to announce police raids-at that point all same-sex couples switch immediately to dancing with opposite-sex partners. Kurt mentions that all such clubs in Berlin have been shut down under the Nazi Party.

* LatinoIsBrown: Mateo objects that Rio is white, not Latina (because she's got pale skin), and thus she can't be pachuco. However, she retorts that her parents came from Spain to Mexico. Of course, she's just one of Magda's many guises (who's really a demon, though apparently from Mexican culture at least). All of the other Latino characters however have olive skin and black hair.

* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler: Councilman Townsend sure is racist and sexist and in bed with Nazis, but he's also a closeted homosexual, and Nazis kill homosexuals, of which he's obviously well aware given his begging and pleading when his contacts find him with another man.]]
* CopKiller: [[spoiler:Raúl is turned into one briefly during the riot in the pilot, forcing Tiago to shoot him to defend his partner.]]

* {{Gayngst}}: [[spoiler: Charlton Townsend, after losing face against Goss, drowns his sorrows in homosexual affairs near the Santa Monica pier.]]

* 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]].
* TheMafia: Have a presence throughout the show, mainly of Jewish mobsters, and Michener has some contacts among them.

* 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.

** 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}}''.

** [[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. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in Episode 8 during a meeting of the Bund, in that he does not seem to quite see eye to eye with the other members on supporting Hitler and their racial views, and does not seem to be a committed Nazi, his main concern seemingly being keeping the United States out of a new war. [[spoiler: Double Subverted as of the season finale, as he is seen wearing an Iron Cross and reluctantly giving a Nazi salute, thanks to Elsa's manipulations.]]

* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: Skip, the male prostitute Charlton Townsend employs to fulfill his repressed homosexuality, is extremely handsome and ripped compared to Townsend himself, who in addition to being a horrible person is also overweight, sweaty, and sports a classic pedo-stache. This is made even ''worse'' when this handsome man is not only conned out of money by Townsend the following morning for sleeping with him, but is then [[KilltheCutie shot to death]] [[DisposableSexWorker in the chest and head]] by Kurt, a hitman and chauffeur for the Nazi party Townsend is affiliated with. This is made even more disturbing in the when Kurt, himself a handsome ripped guy, immediately takes Townsend to a different motel to have sex with him (where Townsend is unknowingly being filmed by the Nazis so they can blackmail him with the footage later)]].

* HiddenDepths: While overall a [[SleazyPolitician sleazy piece of work]], racist, and [[Jerkass a general prick]], Townsend, of all people, shows some talent at tap dancing, briefly demonstrating while alone at home. He later mentions to Kurt that he'd tried to make a career of it, but was rejected because of his weight.

** [[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. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in Episode 8 during a meeting of the Bund, in that he does not seem to quite see eye to eye with the other members on supporting Hitler and their racial views, and does not seem to be a committed Nazi, his main concern seemingly being keeping the United States out of a new war.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Councilman Townsend has a very poor relationship with his father, to put it lightly, demonstrated during their meeting in Episode 9. Townsend Sr. bluntly refuses to help his son win the recall, deriding him as weak and a 'losing horse' to his face.

** [[spoiler: Rico gets lynched by a group of racist cops in retribution for Reilly's death, which he had taken the fall for.]]

** [[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.

* WhatTheHellHero: In the process of interrogating Diego, Lewis figures out that [[spoiler: Tiago's brother was [[WhoMurderedTheAsshole the one who killed Officer Reilly]]]]. Lewis then lays into Tiago for letting him go. But he helps cover up that fact by getting Diego to confess to that murder as well as the Hazlett killings.

* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: Skip, the male prostitute Charlton Townsend employs to fulfill his repressed homosexuality, is extremely handsome and ripped compared to Townsend himself, who in addition to being a horrible person is also overweight, sweaty, and sports a classic pedo-stache. This is made even ''worse'' when this handsome man is not only conned out of money by Townsend the following morning for sleeping with him, but is then [[KilltheCutie shot to death]] [[DisposableSexWorker in the chest and head]] by Kurt, a hitman and chauffeur for the Nazi party Townsend is affiliated with. This is made even more disturbing in the when Kurt, himself a handsome ripped guy, immediately takes Townsend to a different motel to have sex with him (where Townsend is unknowingly being filmed by the Nazis so they can blackmail him with the footage later)]]. Cue throwing up at the waste of physical beauty twice in one episode.

* 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 setting as the parent series.

** Councilman Townsend is an American man... who thinks that Mussolini and Hitler are great role models. However, he is ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' willing to be an actual Nazi, but has zero problem benefiting from their assistance in making him mayor.

* MasterOfDisguise: The demon Magda is German housewife Elsa Branson, Councilman Townsend's assistant Alex Malone, and the pachuco 'queen' Rio. While they are all played by [[Natalie Dormer]], even characters familiar with her different identities don't notice any resemblance.

* MasterOfDisguise: The demon Magda is German housewife Elsa Branson, Councilman Townsend's assistant Alex Malone, and the pachuco 'queen' Rio. While they are all played by [[Natalie Dorner]], even characters familiar with her different identities don't notice any resemblance.

* MasterOfDisguise: The demon Magda is German housewife Elsa Branson, Councilman Townsend's assistant Alex Malone, and the pachuco 'queen' Rio.

* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: Skip, the male prostitute Charlton Townsend employs to fulfill his repressed homosexuality, is extremely handsome and ripped compared to Townsend himself, who in addition to being a horrible person is also overweight, sweaty, and sports a classic pedo-stache. This is made even ''worse'' when this handsome man is not only conned out of money by Townsend the following morning for sleeping with him, but is then [[KilltheCutie shot to death]] [[DisposableSexWorker in the chest and head]] by Kurt, a hitman and chauffeur for the Nazi party Townsend is affiliated with. This is made even more disturbing in the ''same damn episode'' when Kurt, himself a handsome ripped guy, takes Townsend to a motel to have sex with him (where Townsend is unknowingly being filmed by the Nazis so they can blackmail him with the footage later)]]. Cue throwing up at the waste of physical beauty twice in one episode.