Orlando Bloom's pulchritudinous posterior

[rose_griffes]

I started watching Carnival Row, a fantasy series on Amazon Prime. I think it's AP's efforts to capitalize on the market for Game of Thrones: so far we have magic, magical creatures, boobs and butts, and warfare.

The writing is heavy-handed and lacking nuance but Orlando Blooom and Cara Delevigne are trying hard to make the best of it. The music is lovely--not strikingly original so far, but very appropriate. The visuals are mostly top-notch, which is enough to push this into "I'll keep watching" territory. Only five episodes left; I've already watched 3.

edited to add: Indira Varma! Jared Harris! They have a top-notch cast for this... too bad the writing hasn't equaled the cast.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I'm not sure I made it into a second episode of this, though quite a few people seemed to like it. I just found it kind of grim and didn't think I'd want a season of the same.

[rose_griffes]

Yeah, I debated whether I wanted to keep watching in large part due to the grimness of it. I finally decided that it was visually interesting enough to keep going but not so compelling overall that I was going to have more than a surface-level appreciation. And I'm more than willing to drop it if that ratio changes too much.

[nic]

I ended up enjoying this series because it was *different*. It wasn't amazing and it was too dark/grim for me to love it, but it was entertaining and nice to be watching something not-stupid.

[rose_griffes]

That's basically where I am as well: this isn't all-time fave material, but it's entertaining and pretty.