{"id":187,"date":"2016-10-31T17:03:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2022-03-24T22:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:04:55","slug":"inktober-eva-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Inktober:  Eva Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ives_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ives_01.jpg\" alt=\"Ives_01\" width=\"638\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ives_01.jpg 638w, https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ives_01-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Eva Green as Vanessa Ives in <strong><em>Penny Dreadful<\/em><\/strong> (2014-16)<\/h2>\n<p>Moving from the classic to the more contemporary:\u00a0 I started watching <em>Penny Dreadful<\/em> with scant hope that it would be any good.\u00a0 The premise of the show, bringing together the characters of the classic Victorian horror stories (Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Jekyll &amp; Hyde, Dorian Grey) had been done several times before, from the Universal films of the 40s, to the abysmal <em>Van Helsing<\/em> of a few years back, and it&#8217;s almost always been done badly.\u00a0 Watching <em>Penny Dreadful<\/em>, I was pleasantly surprised.\u00a0 Everything about it was top-notch, from the writing to the acting and production values.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always admired the work of Eva Green, and her turn as the protagonist of <em>Penny Dreadful<\/em>, the cursed psychic\/witch Vanessa Ives, was outstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eva Green as Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful (2014-16) Moving from the classic to the more contemporary:\u00a0 I started watching Penny Dreadful with scant hope that it would be any good.\u00a0 The premise of the show, bringing together the characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/?p=187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}