‘Penny Dreadful’ Season 3 New Trailer Arrives

Penny Dreadful Season 3 Eva Green and Patti LuPone
Eva Green as Vanessa Ives and Patti LuPone as Dr. Seaward in ‘Penny Dreadful’ season 3 (Photo: Jonathan Hession/SHOWTIME)

Showtime’s unveiled a new trailer for the third season of Penny Dreadful starring Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, and Timothy Dalton. Penny Dreadful will kick off season three on Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 10pm ET/PT with Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, and Reeve Carney also back in starring roles.

The series was created by writer/executive producer John Logan, with Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, and Karen Richards also executive producing.

The Plot: Patti LuPone, who guest starred last season as the Cut-Wife, returns as a series regular in the new role of Dr. Seward, an American therapist who treats Vanessa (Green) with an unconventional new approach. Wes Studi joins as a series regular as Kaetenay, an intense, enigmatic Native American with a deep connection to Ethan (Hartnett) who also becomes an ally to Sir Malcolm (Dalton). The third season also adds Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Henry Jekyll (Shazad Latif).

Other guest stars Christian Camargo as Dr. Alexander Sweet, a zoologist who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Vanessa; Sam Barnett as Dr. Seward’s mysterious young secretary; Jessica Barden as Justine, a young acolyte to Lily (Billie Piper) and Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney); and Perdita Weeks, as Catriona Hartdegan, a scholar with expert knowledge of the supernatural. Simon Russell Beale returns as Dr. Ferdinand Lyle, and Sarah Greene as Hecate.

Watch the Penny Dreadful trailer: