The quiet strength of Penny Dreadful is once again the way the characters interact, the relationships between the eccentric, often elderly tenants and the crowd of rambunctious children that havetherunoftheplace all summer.
Mind you big box stores are still labour intensive, the only difference is, instead of a lot of people owning and running their own stores one entity owns and runs theplace with low-skilled labour from the pool of people who have been run out of business.
The governing coalition may still have time to get its act together, and could even win some ofthe run-off elections for mayor that take place on June 18th across the country.