New Series! “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” Premieres Sunday, April 26 @ 10:10PM on Showtime [VIDEO]

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is set nearly 50 years after the original series, during the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s. It takes place in 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place “deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension”.

See the full first episode here!

The characters are connected in conflict to the deity, Santa Muerte, while others are allied with the Devil. Detective Tiago Vega is tasked with a gruesome murder case and soon becomes embroiled in LA’s history; “from the building of the city’s first freeways and its deep traditions of Mexican-American folklore, to the dangerous espionage actions of the Third Reich and the rise of radio evangelism.” Tiago and his family struggle with powerful forces that threaten to tear them apart.

CAST

Natalie Dormer as Magda, a supernatural demon who can take the form of anyone she chooses
Daniel Zovatto as Tiago Vega, the LAPD’s first Mexican-American detective
Kerry Bishé as Sister Molly, a charismatic radio evangelist
Adriana Barraza as Maria Vega, the matriarch of the Vega family
Jessica Garza as Josefina Vega, the youngest child of the Vega family
Michael Gladis as Charlton Townsend, a councilman and head of the LA City Council’s Transportation Committee
Johnathan Nieves as Mateo Vega, Tiago’s younger brother
Rory Kinnear as Peter Craft, a German pediatrician and the head of the German-American Bund
Nathan Lane as Lewis Michener, a veteran LAPD officer and Vega’s partner