WiC Watches: Carnival Row season 1

Heavy on the retro-Victorian exotic, Carnival Row is a star-crossed romance played out amid a world at war and an old-fashioned, neo-noir gumshoe murder mystery.

Following a war between the world of the humans and the fantastical Fae, the humans have emerged triumphant. With their fabled homeland of Tirnanoc in ruins, the Fae refugees now crowd Carnival Row, the slum streets of the Burgue, the capital city of the human empire. The mythic Fae creatures struggle to co-exist alongside their human counterparts, who treat them with contempt and repress them under unfair laws.

Amazon Prime is apparently so happy with Carnival Row‘s first season that it has already ordered a second. Is their confidence well placed? Let’s find out! We’ll be reviewing the episode by episode, updating as we go, starting with…