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4 out of 5 stars.

The season finale ties up some questions such as who is controlling the dark Asher? The answer does lead to a twist which may be predictable to some or surprising. The episode does have some exciting, and intense scenes. Philo coming across the dark Asher. While some other characters love story leads to separate journeys. It will be fun to see were the next season will go. Especially after the climax with characters getting into power politically and how the aftermath will turn out.

Carnival Row season 1 overall I will rate it 4 out of 5 stars. The storytelling is great. It has a fantasy theme mixed with a little bit of politics. The cast is great. The script is sharp. The direction may be slow moving. The season delivered a fantasy crime solving thriller with an engaging cast.

I really loved this first season and I'm not much of a Sci-Fi guy. Acting is great and characters are spot on then covid hit I sure do hope they come out with season 2.

Amazing piece of ART. I mean forget about all the critics, you find them in every corner whining about everything. This show is incredible without a doubt. All the creatures and all the graphics were too good. I love fantasy and mystery that mixed up with racism, discrimination and all the hate. Bravo

This is the perfect ending for season 1. The script is perfect. Everything comes together. Season 1 can be viewed as a full story by itself. This is an ending.

But it also has set up itself perfectly for another season or 2. Perhaps a lot more.

I can't think when the last time I have seen just incredible work

This series is really evolving and the plot is expanding little by little. Its a different kind of series. And adter watching Orlando Bloom in movies and here he definately should be the star of the legandary movie ''The Crow''. They should remake this film with him. Orlando Bloom is the nearest thing next to legendary Brandon Lee. My only thing with this series is that the characters seems to be a little bit cartoonish. The directors or the screen writter needs to provide more acting potentials to the actors.

I started to watch this show because somone recommended it to me, and I was postitively surprised. While not a masterpiece, I believe is settles a suspensful atmosphere which keeps you entertained and the finale is quite revealing.

Hmmm... I came so close to dumping "Carnival Row". What saved it was the fact that there were only eight episodes. By the end, the finale was just about interesting enough to drag me back for the already commissioned second season.

Following a War for control of their lands, an increasing population of creatures meet poverty and prejudice as they arrive in The Burgh (a close proxy for Victorian London) as refugees. One of these refugees, Vignette (Cara Delavigne) arrives in the city and discovers that her former lover, a soldier during the war, is not dead, as she thought but now a Detective in the Burgh Police. The Detective, Philo (Orlando Bloom) has his life is turned upside down by the arrival of Vignette, but also by a grisly series of Murders that is the talk of the Row.

So why did I nearly give up on the series. Frankly, because for all the fantasy elements, the show is somewhat dull. The different races are fairly obvious substitutes for real world comparisons and much of the show involves their interactions with the upper classes of humans. Honestly, I've seen all this done before and more convincingly. There are three main strands to the season's arc, two of them become connected as the season runs on. . . (speaking of which, if you honestly can't guess who's behind the murders in the first couple of episodes then I have some magic beans to sell you). A third plot strand, involving The Spurnrose siblings and their neighbour is only ever tangentially linked and, despite being nicely acted, feels like filler. Vignette's time in The Burgh also feels like it's done to pad the show out, as she gets a maid's job and then joins a gang - both of which feel like just giving her something to do, particularly when you look back on the season after it's finished.

I did warm to Orlando Bloom's Inspector as the series wore on, after initial scepticism about whether the "tough cop routine" was really suited to him. Cara Delavigne is probably the best she's been in anything in this and despite the criticism in other reviews, I thought her accent was pretty solid - the character though could use something real to do. I liked the Cthulhu elements of the plot, and wished that it had leaned a little more into that.

The last couple of episodes dragged me back in enough to earn the positive score and probably ensure I'll be back for the next run.

Again, I am the first one to review this episode. It seems that this binged series can't match the heights of Stranger Things. One decade has passed as an IMDB reviewer, and this is the first time in my life that I have reviewed a hat-trick of first reviews! I wish the writers could write the narrative of the previous episodes just like this. My guess for the villain was on target (check for S01E06 review; I don't want to include any spoilers in my review). The direction seems in place. The politics in Parliament also seems in order. The production design is still dim. It is causing a little pain to watch as it is very dark to view. I hope the scriptwriters increase the speed of the series and go full throttle for Season 2! This episode = 7.5/10

Finally season one comes to an end with a slightly better episode, due to there being more going on in it. It's all very dark and predictable in that each sub-plot usually ends in a couple of characters fighting, and more horror and less fantastic nonsense would have been preferable.

This is the season finale? 8 episode seasons these days I swear shows are lazy. Lazy Lazy Lazy.

So Absolom? Jared Harris, I love watching him. He has Legolas and apparently thinks Legolas is a killer. But Legolas convinces him that he is innocent and is released. A short time later, A miscreant Puck shanks Absolom at his home. It appears that Jared Harris is done.

He lives tho. OH nice we find out who the killer is. She needs LIVER! Liver is mmm mmm good.

The Darkasher, gets ahold of the witch but the witch holds on to the world of the living long enough to tell Legolas what is going on. +1 Star.

Oh snap. Legolas victoried the Darkasher! +1 Star.... and also -1 Star because that was the luckiest kill of a critter I've seen in a while.

So Absolom dies. Jonah is his son and he becomes Chancellor?? Sophie.and Jonah have a little encounter.

PUCK and Isogel have to escape after Ezra catches them playing with PUCK'S horns!

And Varma, she is outed and little Pix has to settle that thread and then Pix and Legolas are back together as the world, changes. End of Season. 6/10.