Some Dark God Wakes

I have watched the first episode but the serie is too dark. You can hardly see what is happening.

4 out of 5 stars.

Carnival Row begins with a bit of a mystery with its story telling. Introducing us to the 1800 world were man try to coexist with the faye and other human hybrid beasts. The plot focuses on a theme were people are prejudice towards other beast.

The plot follows Vignette (Cara Delevingne) who escapes from the soldiers that were attacking her homeland. And her ship wrecked in Burgue. She becomes a house maid while her former lover Rycroft (Orlando Bloom) who was presumed dead from her. Is still alive and is on a mystery murder case.

The script, direction, and story is engaging and exciting. It may be slow moving but it is an intriguing story.

I own that I am a sucker for fantasy and/or sci-fi. I own that I'm a fan of Orlando Bloom. I own that I relished period pieces (even tho' this one is in a tome long ago and far away).

But the real reason why I'm hooked on "Carnival Row" is it's obvious political parallels to our sole today. This first episode makes this political/cultural connection explicit.

There are numerous parallels to American in a post-Trump world and Brexit England. Just for a few examples: xenophobia, a mindless war, mass immigration, prejudice, class conflict... the list goes on and on. But identifying these and relishing the commentary is the joy here!

Join me and watch this show and you will have a grand adventure and serious thoughts about our world today!

Perhaps it was because of their accent, but I think it was more that the sound made it hard hard to understand. Also, it's always dark so it's hard to see . I also don't mind 4 letter words necessarily but each character has to use the same one over and over (f...). When the bad guy gives his little speech from which the title of this episode derives, I felt that it was quite a bit of overacting. Finally, I am still confused about what is happening. I will try another episode but as of right now - I can only give it 5 stars.

I don't understand why all the negative reviews . To be honest there is some bad things but there also some good things in this show we must give it a chance at least more 2-3 episodes. The only thing i didn't like is Cara's acting and the episode is a little bit dark but everything else was Okay.