Rewatching Penny Dreadful and I'd forgotten the moment of perfect, perfect comedy and perfect actor timing when solo English bobby Inspector Rusk (Douglas Hodge) looks at perhaps fifteen lawless gun toting desperadoes AND a werewolf AND an amoral witch, and says "in the name of her majesty Queen Victoria, you are all" (face of apprehensive despair and awareness of own ridiculousness yet righteous authority) "under arrest"
"Well fuck it, a chap's got to go sometime"















