Carnival Row

At the time of release, then-showrunners Travis Beacham and Marc Guggenheim were vocal about their plan for at least four seasons of the high-budget drama (via ...

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The second (and final) series is too intent on delivering a socially conscious message to tell a coherent story. Orlando Bloom (Rycroft Philostrate), ...

It’s a shame because if the numerous writing staff (there are 18 listed; Game of Thrones had nine) had ever calmed down enough to stop delivering A Message, the world in which Carnival Row is set is sufficiently detailed and interesting to support new stories and there is certainly more mileage in fierce fighting fairies. At the start of the second season, the Fae — including Philo, who we now know is a “half-blood” — are confined to the Burgue’s fairy quarter, the titular Carnival Row. The perpetrator must have been able to fly to have got him up there. Living under the fascist jackboot of the humans means cutting through barbed wire and avoiding sweeping searchlight beams, Second World War escape movie-style, to get out of the Row. Although the eccentric former “party girl” sometimes makes the news for the wrong reasons, here the headline is that she completely sells the role, even pulling off — to these non-Irish ears, at least — a passable Irish accent. You might not have fairies at the bottom of your garden but they are all over your TV.

Episode 1 of Carnival Row season 2 begins with Vignette and the Black Raven cutting the barbed wires around the Row and flying out.

All of our favourite characters return including the ever-mysterious Tourmaline and the strong and steadfast Agreus. Especially if it involves knocking down the annoying Jonah and Sophie a few pegs. Dahlia, the leader appears at the last minute and brands her but warns her never to go behind her back again. She goes to him and he feels miserable and dishonest as the guillotined fauns did not actually kill his parents. Dombey turns up and threatens Berwick while sending Philo back to the Row. The bloody and gory scenes maintain the dark and political theme the show has been in favour of. He instead orders the heads of the dead fauns to be perched on the wall of the Row. At that moment, Tourmaline sees some boys getting scared of a door and she slowly approaches it. The Black Raven return to the Row which has been turned into a slum with most of the fae and fauns living on the streets. She is worried about him and the fighting and he says he is doing it for Darius, his werewolf friend. He on the other hand is worried about Vignette as the next supply raid could go wrong. Kaine the Black Raven tends to his mate, Oona who seems to be on the precipice of death.