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Critical Condition: Carnival Row

Carnival Row | Amazon Prime Video, from Friday ☆☆☆☆ “The race to replace Game of Thrones has its latest entrant, with Amazon’s new Carnival Row, a series that combines fantasy, melodrama, ultraviolence, and strained political allegory. But, for now, the Thrones legacy seems safe: This new series reaches for credibility with gruesomeness and exaggeration, falling flat at […]

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New to Amazon Prime Video in August

Carnival Row Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne star in a Victorian fantasy filled with mythological immigrant creatures. Feared by humans, they are forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. But even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective and a faerie rekindle a dangerous affair. The city’s uneasy peace collapses when a string […]

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