Creator and writer John Logan views everyone on Showtime's Penny Dreadful as being good and bad, and he says that's what makes them interesting.

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"I see all the characters as complex, as protagonists and antagonists simultaneously which is what makes them interesting to write and interesting to play," explained Logan in a recently released San Diego Comic-Con interview with Showbiz Junkies (featured below).

The series begins production for season two this week, and Logan thinks the new episodes will prove to be on a much grander scale than what audiences of the show have seen before. Showtime has decided to extend this program's new season by two episodes, meaning that there will be two extra hours to explore Logan's dark and supernatural world. "Season two is much bigger than season one…" he admitted, "There's new antagonists, there's new friends, there's new foes."

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While Madame Kali has been confirmed as the drama's human antagonist this season, the "new friends" have remained a mystery. With so much of Penny Dreadful's world drawn from Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it is possible Logan might try to branch out and draw more heavily on the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray this season, perhaps even Basil, the painter infatuated with Dorian.

Logan has also expressed an interest in other works which could be the source of new storylines. "It's a big old complicated world, Victorian London," teased the writer, suggesting that anything is possible on this dynamic series.

Penny Dreadful returns to Showtime for a second season in 2015.

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