Snowflake Challenge #2: Pimp Your Fandom

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snowflake_challenge: Challenge #2
In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom.

Okay, it was really hard to choose which of my fandoms to advertise, since almost all of them are tiny, but for this post, I’m going with Carnival Row, since the next season is finally going to come out next month.

What is Carnival Row: It’s an eight-episode (so far) TV series by Amazon which focusses on Inspector Rycroft Philostrate, a policeman in The Burgue, a city that finds itself an unwilling refuge for fantasy creatures of many different kinds, leading to all the usual tensions between the newcomers and the humans. The plot kicks off when Philo’s old flame arrives in the city as a refugee and Philo gets drawn into the investigation of a series of murders that is far more dangerous than it seems at first.

Why you should watch Carnival Row:

• Philo (as played by a scruffy Orlando Bloom) is an A+ stoic woobie.
• The world building is really interesting, even if a lot of it is only touched on in passing. It’s a fantasy series, but it focusses on a London-inspired city circa 1900.
• some wonderful minor storylines that get some screen time, such as the cross-species romance between an upper-class lady and a faun, an actor and his troupe of kobold actors, and the Chancellor’s disappointment of a son getting some development.
• Not (just) your usual fantasy creatures: it’s fairies, fauns, centaurs and giant trolls, and unlike with other storylines about oppression and fantasy races, the other races’ differences don’t pose an inherent threat to the humans at all (which can sometimes make it seem as if the oppression is justified).
• A solid mystery that I, at least, found rather satisfying.