It’s been a long wait, but Prime Video has finally set a February premiere date for the 2nd and final season of the fantasy drama ‘Carnival Row‘ on the streaming service.
The series is set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans – forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom.
Season Two picks up with former inspector Rycroft Philostrate a.k.a. Philo (Orlando Bloom) investigating a series of gruesome murders stoking social tension. Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne) and the Black Raven plot payback for the unjust oppression inflicted by The Burgue’s human leaders, Jonah Breakspear (Arty Froushan) and Sophie Longerbane (Caroline Ford). Tourmaline (Karla Crome) inherits supernatural powers that threaten her fate and the future of The Row. And, after escaping The Burgue and her vengeful brother Ezra (Andrew Gower), Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) and her partner Agreus Astrayon (David Gyasi) encounter a radical new society which upends their plans. With humans and fae folk divided and freedom on the line, each hero will face impossible dilemmas and soul-defining tests in the epic conclusion of ‘Carnival Row’.
‘Carnival Row’ is a co-production of Amazon Studios and Legendary Television. The series is executive produced by showrunner Erik Oleson (Marvel’s ‘Daredevil’, ‘The Man in the High Castle’), Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Brad Van Arragon (‘Yellowjackets’), Sarah Byrd (‘The Alienist’, ‘Strange Angel’), Jim Dunn (Marvel’s ‘Daredevil’, ‘Haven’), Sam Ernst (Marvel’s ‘Daredevil’, ‘Haven’), Wesley Strick (‘The Man in the High Castle’) and Travis Beacham (‘Pacific Rim’,’ Clash of the Titans’). Beacham’s ‘A Killing on Carnival Row’, on which the project is based, appeared on the very first installment of The Black List in 2005.
‘Carnival Row‘ Season 2 premieres Friday, 17th February 2023 on Prime Video UK and worldwide.
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People are starting to stop watching altogether because anything good gets cancelled.
I’m the opposite: I’ve stopped watching most TV shows on a weekly basis (except brainless ‘comfort TV’ procedurals that don’t have much of a meta plot) or even just binge-watch each season as it is released, and I will now wait till the show is actually cancelled/finished before I even start watching it. Between the now much shorter seasons due to much more expensive production values, all the recent production delays, and my diminished attention span (Long COVID is hell), I will have forgotten what happened in the previous season by the time the next one arrives and I just don’t have the time or energy anymore to rewatch the previous seasons just to remind myself what’s going on. And I can’t be the only one with this problem – there are so many high-quality shows to watch with all these streaming services that I can’t imagine that most adult have enough free time to watch anything twice. I really wish Netflix, Amazon and Co. would take this into account – even their binge-watching shows need a “previously on” type recap if they’re only going to drop one season every year or even delay them for 2 or 3 years. These days, you can’t even trust the writers to deliver a properly concluded story if something is advertised as a “mini series”, especially not with Disney.
Which is why I find myself mostly watching “one topic per episode” documentary series and “case of the week” Victorian murder mystery shows, plus maybe some historical dramas where there’s no real surprises because history – despite me being an avid fantasy/scifi fan. It’s annoying to have to stay away from the fan discussion about the high profile shows because I know that these will go on for years and rely on a lot of cliff-hangers. (Though I’m kind of used to this by now, because nobody really talked about the great ‘little shows that could’ which I actually did watch in real time in recent years, just because they were relatively low-budget productions, e.g. Killjoys or The Outpost or The Shannara Chronicles.)
Well, at least the Critical Role / Legend of Vox Machina community is highly aware of new people coming into the fandom all the time and that nobody has the time to just binge-watch it all at this point, so they generally have good spoiler etiquette in discussions and there are newbie watch-alongs for older material going on.
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