Pandemic through, in my head August 2019 is closer to 1995 than today.
That's why I don't quite believe that the second season of
Carnival Row
exists.
The debut of the first, in the summer of 2019, now seems to belong to the prehistory of television.
Also its utter irrelevance.
At the time
Carnival Row
did not interest almost anyone.
Many people today will be genuinely surprised to learn that
the Prime Video blockbuster is still out there
.
Carnival what?
In October 2018 (we are still in prehistory),
Cara Delevigne
and
Orlando Bloom
, protagonists of this expensive fiction, were two of the stars of the maximalist content presentation that the Amazon platform organized in London.
Carnival Row
was one of his big bets.
He brought his status as an icon of the fantastic genre (his Legolas from
The Lord of the Rings
is still present in the collective memory), she the hooligan charisma and
décontracté
with the one who had already conquered the world of fashion.
Along with Bloom, a star in decline (or in formaldehyde),
the supermodel with a strange acting career headlined a big series
for a powerful platform.
In 2018, succeeding was exactly that.
Yet when Carnival Row
finally hit subscribers' screens
months later , it made little noise.
As original material and not derived from any successful literary saga, the
René Echevarria
and
Travis Beacham
series did not have a fan base looking forward to its arrival.
And those of Bloom and Delevingne only needed to get into Google to enjoy endless videos and photos of their idols.
His series wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good either.
Reviews were lukewarm
, and conversation about
Carnival Row
petered out soon after its release, if not sooner.
His anticlimactic tour should have ended there.
But he didn't.
In a display of cockiness (or in a strategic accounting maneuver) Prime Video gave the Echevarria and Beacham series a second (and final) installment.
This has already arrived in 2023, when the first is a hazy memory.
The other day I asked a journalist friend who also attended that London macro-event
if we had really seen Cara Delevigne and Orlando Bloom present a series in the very distant 2018
or if I had dreamed it.
She confirmed to me that, indeed, that happened.
We even got to talk to them.
Another thing that did happen is the premiere of
Carnival Row
.
And his failure.
In 2023 his return occurs and who cares.
The retro-fantastic universe that this series proposes is not original (there you have
The Dark Matter
), it has no previous support in the form of books (there you have
The Dark Matter
) and is led by two famous people who today seem to care less same as me: nothing.
The adjective necessary
is frequently (and cheesily) used
to talk about movies and series that can be many things, but not necessary.
On the other hand, there are unnecessary series
.
Carnival Row
is one of them.
Twice unnecessary, in case the first was not enough.
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