Review – Penny Dreadful

So when the word “dreadful” is right there in the title, does that render the review moot? Poor Penny is terrified of cars. Her shrink’s notion of taking her on a cross-country car trip to help cure her might have been smart if not for the whole picking-up-a-hitcher-who-turns-out-to-be-a-psycho twist. The first 40 minutes or so are script-intensive, which would have been a good thing except it’s dull stuff. The rest is screaming and yelling and stabbing and not much else. See if desperate