Showtime's Penny Dreadful has a familiar scene!

Mme LeMarchand watches it (albeit sometimes with her face buried in my shoulder) and she's not "into" horror. If you're one of those people who thinks that all horror is slasher movies and gore, it's far from that. It's a slow-moving (most of the time) character piece that features characters from Dracula, Dorian Gray and Frankenstein (along with an Allan Quatermain analogue and some original characters). In some ways it's like the (comic) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but less flamboyant and erudite. Also, The Creature/John Clare is the most "literary" character, but (for obvious reasons) gets few chances to talk about poetry.

All that said, the show doesn't skimp on gore or nudity/sex - though it somehow seems less gratuitious than in "Game of Thrones".

No tears please, it's a waste of good suffering.