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- Prime Video
- Aug 29, 2019
- Prime Video
- Aug 29, 2019
Summary Set in a neo-Victorian city where supernatural war refugees have settled, Detective Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) reconnects with faerie Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingn) and investigates a number of murders in the fantasy drama.
Created By: Travis Beacham, René Echevarria
- Prime Video
- Aug 29, 2019
- Prime Video
- Aug 29, 2019
Summary Set in a neo-Victorian city where supernatural war refugees have settled, Detective Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) reconnects with faerie Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingn) and investigates a number of murders in the fantasy drama.
Created By: Travis Beacham, René Echevarria
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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41% Positive
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9 Reviews
55% Mixed
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5% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
58
41% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
55% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The world Carnival Row creates is handsomely realised and sufficiently different from Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc to feel like its own unique corner of the fantasy universe.
The main attraction of “Carnival Row” is, in fact, its incongruities—the familiar in unfamiliar places, an amalgamation of myths, tropes and themes wedded to each other despite their seeming incompatibilities. Not everything works in the show. But when it does, it takes flight.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 74 User Ratings
7.1
69% Positive
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
16% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
15% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 74 User Ratings
7.1
69% Positive
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
16% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
15% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
Took me awhile to actually get around to watching and I’m upset I waited so long. This show is fantastic!
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SEASON 1
Personally, I loved it! The mythology was great, like using the name Tirnanoc for a city, based on the old Irish myth or Tir na nOg. I thought it showed issues that have been in our past and still reflect today; that immigrants to our county being treated as less than human, because of their skin color or their language. Any lover of science fiction/ fantasy would like this series, imo
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SEASON 1
While this series also begins with an unwieldy amount of place-setting involving a war that led to the current refugee crisis, “Carnival Row” proves more palatable than “The Dark Crystal.” The Amazon series is easier to follow even as it introduces initially-unconnected characters in multiple social classes. This gives “Carnival Row” plenty of areas to explore. If only it all felt more unique.
As is, it’s a highly ambitious series sporting a pair of faery wings that can’t carry its own aspirations off the ground.
As it stands, season one offers an outline for the type of show Carnival Row wants to be—mixed genres and all—instead of the Thrones successor Amazon is banking on with an early renewal.
The series reanimates bits and pieces from different branches of the fantasy genre into a glum and lumbering beast that only occasionally sparks into life.
What is by turns a Jack the Ripper riff, an Austen-style comedy of manners and a dark political thriller (starring the great Jared Harris), with a Dickensian street gang and a fairy brothel thrown in for kicks. These story lines rarely intersect with one another or with the show’s themes of anti-imperialism and tolerance in a way that justifies the collage of references. And hacky dialogue (“Oh, come now, woman!”) doesn’t help.
Really enjoyed this show. Glad to see something new come out. Good acting, good plot.
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SEASON 1
Episódios muito longos e pouca resolução dos acontecimentos fazendo a season finale ser apressada e sem criatividade, Mas pelo menos deixa um ótimo solo para uma segunda temporada que promete bem mais.
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SEASON 1
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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i have been waiting for this show for a loooong time damn i was so excited to see this... and now my disappointment is extreme. Damn this show...
There are two main issues:
1. story is just average, acting is mediocre and its all slow and somehow boring (thats the reason why reviewers dont like it mostly)
2. political correctness pandering is just too much in this show... its racial war, migration propaganda and crying over oppressions hide as fantasy tv show... and its so obvious. Its like someone took wet blanket of SJW nonsense and keep slamming you with it whole 8 episodes....
I will give them that costumes, CGI and visuals are nice, its grimdark and theres a lots of sex (its on you if you like these things or not)...
2/10 is the best i can give it
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