Carnival Row - amazon prime
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It's sort of Harry Potter's Diagon Alley meets Game of Thrones.
Carnival Row is an American neo-noir fantasy web television series created by René Echevarria and Travis Beacham, that premiered on Amazon Prime Video August 30, 2019. The series stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. In July 2019, it was announced that Amazon had renewed the series for a second season.
Extremely well done , w/ costumes, make up and ' period ' piece scenery. While not set in our history, there is a late 1800's, early 1900's vibe to it. Missing , at least so far, is any sort of map which lets the viewer have a grasp as to the scale of this world, the different lands, the empires and the location of the now ravaged Fae lands.
While it's a bit slow at times, there's also a fair amount of gratuitous nude / sex scenes as well as a few gory shots. Again, not near the level of GoT, but still plenty of adult language , just to remind folks this is NOT to be confused w/ any Harry Potter stuff.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's sort of Harry Potter's Diagon Alley meets Game of Thrones.
Carnival Row is an American neo-noir fantasy web television series created by René Echevarria and Travis Beacham, that premiered on Amazon Prime Video August 30, 2019. The series stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. In July 2019, it was announced that Amazon had renewed the series for a second season.
Extremely well done , w/ costumes, make up and ' period ' piece scenery. While not set in our history, there is a late 1800's, early 1900's vibe to it. Missing , at least so far, is any sort of map which lets the viewer have a grasp as to the scale of this world, the different lands, the empires and the location of the now ravaged Fae lands.
While it's a bit slow at times, there's also a fair amount of gratuitous nude / sex scenes as well as a few gory shots. Again, not near the level of GoT, but still plenty of adult language , just to remind folks this is NOT to be confused w/ any Harry Potter stuff.
Enjoyed this show a lot B+. Both leads very capable, talented actors. How hard it must be to be serious and emotional as a fantasy character. Amazing sets. I know a lot is from cgi but I still can't get over the big film production look of these short Netflix/Amazon series.
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saw the first maybe 10 mins of the pilot..then got pulled away for real life chores...it felt more like they were trying to do a PSA for an old Obama syrian refugee drama or something.. I like the visuals and the characters thus far well enough and I do intend to go back and give it a fair shot over a couple epis...just didn't know that the victorian era type thing included all those "F-bombs" but hey..hollywood ....can't make a show these days without gratuitous sex and language..cause ...well, it's just not realistic unless there's plenty of both right?
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I call it Game of Thrones Lite, with only 1/2 the sex, vulgarity and violence as a full bodied fantasy. 
What confused me most was the different kingdoms and waring factions of man, and how the Fae were secret for so long, until war drove them from their homeland. As bad as they seem to have it in the story we see, it's far better than being caught by the others, from the way it sounds.
Plenty to explore w/ that story in the next season, I suppose.
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Quote:Are you talking about Cara Delevingne, of Valerian? Are you serious?
Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:Quote:Enjoyed this show a lot B+. Both leads very capable, talented actors. How hard it must be to be serious and emotional as a fantasy character. Amazing sets. I know a lot is from cgi but I still can't get over the big film production look of these short Netflix/Amazon series.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's sort of Harry Potter's Diagon Alley meets Game of Thrones.
Carnival Row is an American neo-noir fantasy web television series created by René Echevarria and Travis Beacham, that premiered on Amazon Prime Video August 30, 2019. The series stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. In July 2019, it was announced that Amazon had renewed the series for a second season.
Extremely well done , w/ costumes, make up and ' period ' piece scenery. While not set in our history, there is a late 1800's, early 1900's vibe to it. Missing , at least so far, is any sort of map which lets the viewer have a grasp as to the scale of this world, the different lands, the empires and the location of the now ravaged Fae lands.
While it's a bit slow at times, there's also a fair amount of gratuitous nude / sex scenes as well as a few gory shots. Again, not near the level of GoT, but still plenty of adult language , just to remind folks this is NOT to be confused w/ any Harry Potter stuff.
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What does ' are you serious ' mean ? Yes, she's in it, but … what are you asking about ?
Me confused.
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I think he's saying that she can't act.
That's okay. When you look that good you don't need to have any skills.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Fair enough. In Valarian and even Suicide Squad, she wasn't exactly winning any Oscars. But I think this was a far better effort for her. She wasn't outshined by Orlando Bloom as she may have been in the past. my 2 cents.
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I've never actually seen anything she's in, so I wasn't putting any judgements on her. It just looked like that's the point that JSF was trying to make, is all.
I'm also not saying that beautiful women can't act either. Long history to prove otherwise. That being said though, Cara is far from the first Victoria's Secret Angel and/or Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model to take up acting, and there's a pretty long list of not so great acting coming from those sources.
I'm sure it didn't start with Kathy Ireland in the early 90's, but let's just say that 12 year old me didn't even notice how bad of an actress she was when I saw her on the silver screen.
Ahhhh... Fond memories of my Kathy Ireland poster...
Kids today don't know how good they got it and could never possibly understand how important February was back then.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Here are links to 2 threads discussing Valerian:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
What does ' are you serious ' mean ? Yes, she's in it, but … what are you asking about ?
Me confused.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=61817
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=61816
In neither thread did I recall seeing anybody even suggest that Cara was capable of carrying her performance.
As a lead role in a wonderful film, perhaps the best film of that year, she had opportunity to showcase her talents, and we were left wanting.
I asked the question here because I was not sure if she is who the "2 leads" were referring to.
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