Carnival Row

dowie · 29 Aug 2019 at 02:46

Premier August 30th apparently - dunno if that means it will be available just after midnight tonight?

Anyway this looks interesting, steampunk + fairies and other mythical creatures... seemingly set in not-London and with the mythical creatures being refugees from not-Ireland.

Has been renewed for a second season too.

dowie · 29 Aug 2019 at 16:30

SixTwoSix said:
Said it in the movie thread about Valerian, simply can't get past those god damn eye brows

Still would tho...

(And her opening scene in Valerian... :eek:

, she’s seriously hot at times)

dowie · 30 Aug 2019 at 00:12

Surprisingly, I guess because this isn't too big a deal, Amazon have actually released it in the UK at midnight, so can watch now!

Gerard said:
And looks seriously like a man at others.

Only when you stick her side by side with effeminate looking men!

Anyway she looked hot in the last movie I saw her in:

dowie · 30 Aug 2019 at 13:59

Well it’s no Game of Thrones, that was a show that instantly got my attention like the Wire, Sopranos, Battle Star Galactica mini series, Bosch, Better Call Saul, Heroes season 1 etc...

This was still interesting despite the rather blatant “oh look you’re covering race and class issues & immigration in a really blatant and quite simplistic way”. It’s more like say the Amazon Victorian detective drama Ripper Street, albeit with supernatural stuff. I’ll be watching it but it doesn’t seem like it will be amazons answer to Game of Thrones.

dowie · 30 Aug 2019 at 14:58

SixTwoSix said:
Isn't Amazons answer to GOT simply the LOTR series?

Well it might be, we’ll have to see when it is released. I think this was intended to be too.

dowie · 2 Sep 2019 at 20:06

It was pretty good, I don’t think it was as good as ripper street and certainly not a game of thrones rival but it is enjoyable and worth a watch.

dowie · 7 Sep 2019 at 01:32

The_Abyss said:
Is this closer to Ripper Street or Penny Dreadful?

It's got a bit of the look and feel of Ripper Street (bit more steampunk at times) obvious difference being the fantasy human-like creatures such as fairies and people who are part-animal and a bit more emphasis on issues of colonialism/foreign invasions, racism, immigration etc...