CARNIVAL ROW season one
UK/US Amazon, streaming now
Showrunners René Echevarria, Travis Beacham
Cast Cara Delevingne, Orlando Bloom, Jared Harris, Indira Varma, Karla Crome, David Gyasi
EPISODES 1.01-1.08
development hell (and with such names as Guillermo del Toro attached), it comes as no surprise to find that now Amazon’s flagship fantasy, is finally here, there are elements that feel alarmingly dated. Its racism-fuelled tale of magical creatures trying to fit into a human world riffs on everything from to to Netflix flop t. Its gothic, Victoriannoir feel is pure . The endless swearing and copious copulating? . And that’s just the screen comparisons: don’t get us started on its many similarities to thousands of works of fantasy literature.
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