After Abrupt Season 2 End, Fans Agree Carnival Row Wasn't Even Worth Filming
This show had so much potential only to be tossed in the trash.
Based on Travis Beacham's unproduced screenplay, Carnival Row could have been the perfect neo-noir fantasy we all needed.
In fact, at some point fans even believed it was; but things turned out very differently, rendering the show worthless for the majority of the fandom.
Back in 2019, the first season of Carnival Row proved to be successful enough for Amazon Prime Video to renew it for a second chapter.
However, it turned out that was the end; even though Prime Video never revealed the actual reason for cancellation, Carnival Row never made it past season 2 — according to the show's lead Orlando Bloom, largely due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the show's star, Orlando Bloom.
But even the show' abrupt and premature end does not justify the way it went out, many fans argue.
"I'm sorry, but if that central message (the status quo is better) was always the goal, it's good that the show is over now. I'm just sad that the conclusion that will probably be drawn from this is, that serious fantasy worlds, without a successful book series behind them, are not worth filming," Redditor flo_rrrian said.
It's true that fantasy shows tend to take off when they already have some sort of a fan base behind them, but since Carnival Row was based on an original movie script, that may have been one of the reasons for the series' underwhelming conclusion.
However, not everyone is willing to blame it all on the circumstances.
Many fans accuse the series of having a "cringy message," criticizing the lackluster storyline and the less than subtle conclusion.
Some people even compared the final episodes of Carnival Row to the train wreck that the Game of Thrones season 8 finale was for the fans of the HBO hit.
To be fair, Amazon's fairy neo-noir never reached that level of popularity; but it doesn't mean that the end of its second season was any less painful for the fandom.