What the critics are saying:

From the South Carolina State:

In Victorian London, Ambrose Gennett is ruining his medical reputation through his interest in Freud and psychiatry. Lily Embly is making her reputation and, she hopes, her fortune with seances and what might be psychic powers.

The two literally collide in a train station, and Ambrose gives chase. He becomes obsessed with saving, then ruining Lily, who was hired for a seance by his half-sister and aspires to more rich devotees.

Lily's mother is dying in a hospital, where service costs, and their previous debt has been sold to sinister characters. Ambrose, famous for his insight into troubled minds, controls the purse strings, and each breath, of the women in his family. Their ability to lie to themselves is impressive, and Laura Dietz is witty and clever in how she lets them reveal and destroy themselves.

Who do we want to believe - the doctor or the seer? Dietz shows us the strait jackets of the insane asylum and the wires under the seance table as these two take each other down.