Home > Carnival Row > Season 1 « TV Series Page Carnival Row: Season 1 (2019) SEASON: Season 1 Season 1 Season 2 Want to see Episode List Season 1 Carnival Row Critics Consensus Beautiful, but bloated, Carnival Row boasts meticulously crafted mythology and luscious world building -- unfortunately its story of haves and have nots simply has too much going on. 57% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 65 87% Audience Score User Ratings: 1325 More Info × Close Submit review Want to see Submit review Super Reviewer Super Reviewer Tap to review this movie Review this tv season Edit Review Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit Continue Super Reviewer Step 2 of 2 How did you get your ticket? Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. You're almost there! Just confirm how you got your ticket. Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit How did you get your ticket? Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Episodes 1 Some Dark God Wakes Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Rycroft "Philo" Philostrate investigates "Unseelie Jack", a mysterious assailant with a grudge against the fae. Vignette Stonemoss barely escapes Tirnanoc with her life and arrives in The Burgue looking for a fresh start. Imogen Spurnrose meets her new neighbor. In Parliament, the fight over the critch heats up. More 2 Aisling Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Philo investigates the murder of a mysterious fae. Tourmaline introduces Vignette to a new group of faeries. Imogen tries to have Agreus removed from the neighborhood. Jonah disappears. More 3 Kingdoms of the Moon Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Once, as a Burguish soldier, Philo was tasked with protecting a faerish mimasery. While The Pact bears down on them, Philo meets Vignette and finds love in the most unlikely of places. More 4 The Joining of Unlike Things Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Philo investigates the murder of his childhood headmaster. Vignette ingratiates herself into the Black Raven. Imogen hatches a plan to help her brother. Breakspear goes on the offensive with Longerbane. More 5 Grieve No More Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Philo consults a Haruspex in an effort to find clues about the killer. Vignette grows closer with her newfound family. Upon Jonah's return home, his parents cast a more watchful eye over him as a new player makes a splash in Parliament. Imogen brings Agreus into her circle. More 6 Unaccompanied Fae Air date: Aug 30, 2019 The pieces of the puzzle start to come together for Philo. Vignette finds home in a place she never expected. Jonah sneaks off to see someone he shouldn't. Imogen and Agreus step out together in public. More 7 The World to Come Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Because he withheld evidence from his fellow detectives, Philo is accused of being the man behind the string of murders and is thrown in jail. There, he finds some unexpected help from Vignette. Elsewhere, Ezra takes exception to Imogen's relationship with Agreus. Sophie offers Jonah a deal. More 8 The Gloaming Air date: Aug 30, 2019 As tensions rise on Carnival Row, Philo must confront both darkness incarnate and the evil that controls it. Vignette gleans the true nature of The Burgue. Imogen lets her feelings for Agreus go unbridled. Breakspear's secrets catch up to him. More Carnival Row: Season 1 Videos 0:30 Carnival Row: Season 1 Teaser - Welcome to Carnival Row Carnival Row: Season 1 Comic-Con Teaser - Philo's Story 1:43 Carnival Row: Season 1 Comic-Con Teaser - Vignette's Story 0:59 Carnival Row: Season 1 Teaser - Bury A Friend 2:02 Carnival Row: Season 1 Trailer 0:30 Carnival Row: Season 1 Teaser - Refugees of Carnival Row 1:55 Carnival Row: Season 1 Featurette - The Cast View All Videos (7) Tv Season Info With a serial killer loose on Carnival Row, and a government that turns a blind eye to the deaths of its lower class citizens, Rycroft Philostrate, a war-hardened investigator, is the only person willing to stop the murders and maintain the fragile peace. But when Vignette Stonemoss, a faerie refugee, turns up in the Burgue, she forces Philo to reckon with a past he's tried to forget. Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy Network: Amazon Prime Premiere Date: Aug 30, 2019 Exec. Producers: Marc Guggenheim, Rene Echevarria, Guillermo del Toro, Jon Amiel, Travis Beacham, Orlando Bloom, Gideon Amir, Gary Ungar, Paul McGuigan Cast Orlando Bloom as Rycroft Philostrate Cara Delevingne as Vignette Stonemoss David Gyasi as Agreus Tamzin Merchant as Imogen Spurnrose Andrew Gower as Ezra Spurnrose Karla Crome as Tourmaline Indira Varma as Piety Breakspear Jared Harris as Absalom Breakspear Simon McBurney as Runyan Millworthy Arty Froushan as Jonah Breakspear Caroline Ford as Sophie Longerbane Show More Cast News & Interviews for Carnival Row: Season 1 The Terror Is Definitely Not a Bear, and 6 More Fun Facts Learned From the Stars and Trailer View All Carnival Row: Season 1 News Episodes 1 Some Dark God Wakes Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Rycroft "Philo" Philostrate investigates "Unseelie Jack", a mysterious assailant with a grudge against the fae. Vignette Stonemoss barely escapes Tirnanoc with her life and arrives in The Burgue looking for a fresh start. Imogen Spurnrose meets her new neighbor. In Parliament, the fight over the critch heats up. More 2 Aisling Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Philo investigates the murder of a mysterious fae. Tourmaline introduces Vignette to a new group of faeries. Imogen tries to have Agreus removed from the neighborhood. Jonah disappears. More 3 Kingdoms of the Moon Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Once, as a Burguish soldier, Philo was tasked with protecting a faerish mimasery. While The Pact bears down on them, Philo meets Vignette and finds love in the most unlikely of places. More 4 The Joining of Unlike Things Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Philo investigates the murder of his childhood headmaster. Vignette ingratiates herself into the Black Raven. Imogen hatches a plan to help her brother. Breakspear goes on the offensive with Longerbane. More 5 Grieve No More Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Philo consults a Haruspex in an effort to find clues about the killer. Vignette grows closer with her newfound family. Upon Jonah's return home, his parents cast a more watchful eye over him as a new player makes a splash in Parliament. Imogen brings Agreus into her circle. More 6 Unaccompanied Fae Air date: Aug 30, 2019 The pieces of the puzzle start to come together for Philo. Vignette finds home in a place she never expected. Jonah sneaks off to see someone he shouldn't. Imogen and Agreus step out together in public. More 7 The World to Come Air date: Aug 30, 2019 Because he withheld evidence from his fellow detectives, Philo is accused of being the man behind the string of murders and is thrown in jail. There, he finds some unexpected help from Vignette. Elsewhere, Ezra takes exception to Imogen's relationship with Agreus. Sophie offers Jonah a deal. More 8 The Gloaming Air date: Aug 30, 2019 As tensions rise on Carnival Row, Philo must confront both darkness incarnate and the evil that controls it. Vignette gleans the true nature of The Burgue. Imogen lets her feelings for Agreus go unbridled. Breakspear's secrets catch up to him. More Critic Reviews for Carnival Row Season 1 All Critics (65) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (28) Despite those momentary bright spots in an ongoing bleak collection of fates, Carnival Row largely meanders through the world of its own making. Sep 3, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review… Steve Greene indieWire Top Critic Like many a silly novel, it is a shambles, but an enjoyable one, and as long as you're up for some full-throated groans you'll be rewarded with a long, messy, and satisfying distraction. Aug 27, 2019 | Full Review… Allison Shoemaker RogerEbert.com Top Critic Carnival Row, whether airborne or down-to-earth gritty, keeps flexing the power of its oft-breathtaking visuals. The worlds it creates are the greater sums of its whole while the messages it sends can be a little two telegraphed. Aug 30, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review… Ed Bark Uncle Barky Top Critic It's recommended; a period costume drama on acid, and as strangely carnal as it is solidly and politically aware. Sep 26, 2019 | Full Review… John Doyle Globe and Mail Top Critic Carnival Row delivers on its promises, to varying degrees, and more by interweaving topical ideas about immigration and racism through every facet of the sprawling drama. Sep 18, 2019 | Full Review… Melissa Sloter Pop Culture Leftovers Carnival Row has faltered under the high expectations held, falling a little flat on the promising basis of a new magical world. Sep 17, 2019 | Full Review… Bree Duwyn Film Inquiry Far from being an indigestible pastiche, the series ends up being an entertaining and intriguing experience. [Full Review in Spanish] Sep 6, 2019 | Full Review… Natalia Trzenko La Nación (Argentina) The overall look of the series is impressive, though very cold and grim - money has obviously been spent here. So for fantasy fans, that alone could be enough inducement to plough through. Aug 30, 2019 | Full Review… Wenlei Ma News.com.au The way [Carnival Row] uses Lovecraft's legacy is innovative, not least because it's so casual. Sep 9, 2019 | Full Review… Noah Berlatsky The Verge Overall, the first season of Carnival Row has a lot of promise. Sep 30, 2019 | Full Review… Sarah Musnicky Nightmarish Conjurings But the main problem with Carnival Row is that none of this grandly designed mythology is any fun; instead, the show is a bafflingly glum-faced trudge through pretty basic all-creatures-are-created-equal moralizing. Sep 6, 2019 | Full Review… Ned Lannamann The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Fantasy murder mystery has big stars, lots of sex, violence. Sep 16, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Marty Brown Common Sense Media View All Critic Reviews (65) Audience Reviews for Carnival Row: Season 1 4d ago No fey here, only humans. Not at all the fantasy drama it pretends to be, just a racial political drama that looks unusual and kind of nice only sometimes. Most imagery is gritty and dark Li R Jan 10, 2020 It's not what i was expecting, but is good JM C Jan 10, 2020 Rating: 8/10. 80/100. Kerry W Jan 08, 2020 I think that mostly of the first season of a lot of show's have troubles at the begging and it's not different with Carnival Row, the world that they create is one of the more interstting stuff in this, the human's and mythical creatures live in the same place, i hope that this world construction will help to get a second season, it's very enjoyable and fun to watch, for me the main problem it's that they want put this message about the racism that exist now at day's in the world and it doesn't feel organic in the series. Inaki B Jan 04, 2020 Poor writing. Too bad, could have been great. Marty P Dec 31, 2019 I loved Season 1. I really enjoyed the acting, the sets, the special effects work, and the costumes. The story line was intriguing. I like that the show gave history and story slowly. I prefer stories that develop over time. Leticia M Dec 27, 2019 Man critics are just about butchering the new fantasy shows coming out . . . Seriously what is there not to like about this show (season). Great acting, fresh new world, nice character building . . . It's a great show and my wife and I seriously hope Amazon ignores the critics and makes many more seasons! Ian G Dec 26, 2019 One of the freshest takes on fantasy in a long time. I loved every second of it. Kevin G Dec 21, 2019 MINUS One star because there's "dark and stygian gloom " and then there is this - which all too frequently had me wishing I could see what was going on. Orlando is pretty ( even with the scars and ugly bowler hat ) and I enjoyed the steampunkish setting which reminded me of a mix of olde London, mixed with Paris and a dash on early New York. I immediately checked there was going to be a season 2 so they've done something right Helena M Dec 17, 2019 its starts slow but then it picks up. a very good show that will lift you thinking when its ends. season2 cant come soon enough Abdulla K See all Audience reviews News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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