Just watched episode 5 - Closer Than Sisters.
Wow!
This whole episode was essentially the back story of the psychic Vanessa Ives. As one of the original characters of the series, the previously mysterious femme fatale is now fleshed out as a tortured and possessed woman, ruined by a single act of lust and betrayal.
It captures, I think, the quintessential feel of a Gothic novel: dark romance, hedge mazes, rampant colonialism and the terrors of Victorian medicine. Eva Green is utterly brilliant in this episode, her psychotic episodes convincing, her facial and bodily contortions painful to watch.
This series gets better and better!
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