Amazon Prime drops official trailer for Carnival Row
Amazon Prime just dropped the official trailer for Carnival Row, and upcoming fantasy drama starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. If this show isn’t on your show radar yet, maybe it should be. Watch the trailer to find out why:
Incorporating elements of neo-noir, steampunk and Irish mythology, Carnival Row is one of those stories that uses fantasy to tackle dire issues confronting our modern world, in this case violence, racism, forbidden love and the plight of refugee populations.
So says Amazon’s synopsis:
"Even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective and a faerie rekindle a dangerous affair."
Story-wise, the gorgeously photographed and imagined drama focuses on the relationship between former lovers Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom), a human detective, and the faery Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne), who have rediscovered each other years after a war where the humans drove the faery population out of their ancient homeland of Tir na Nog.
This displaced mythological population now resides in the slums of a human city called The Berg, the capital of the Republic of The Berg. They’re not very imaginative with their names. Get more familiar with the world with this featurette about Bloom’s character’s story below:
Carnival Row appears to be doing the smart thing by building a fantastical world around a more relatable story, and around a pair actors who can sell it. The show looks gritty but stupendous, and the gumshoe detective element gives it a familiar angle.
Carnival Row premieres on Amazon Prime on August 30, Labor Day Weekend.
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In other trailer news, DC has dropped a teaser for the second season of its superhero show Titans, now featuring Krypto the super-dog:
And Netflix dropped the trailer for Mindhunter season 2, about the FBI’s investigation into the phenomenon of serial killing in the 1970s:
Next month is pretty loaded, huh?
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