History Series / CarnivalRow

The first season of eight episodes premiered on August 30 2019, and a second and final season was released on February 17, 2023. Two {{Prequel}} ComicBook one-shots, ''Carnival Row: From The Dark'' and ''Carnival Row: Sparrowhawk'' were also published in August 2019 by Legendary Comics. These one-shots, along with several other stories, will be printed in a collection titled ''Tales of Carnival Row,'' scheduled for release in January 2023.

* BittersweetEnding: The state of the Burgue by the end of season one. [[spoiler:The Darkasher and its master are dead, but Absalom Breakspear, one of the few human advocates for human/fae coexistence, is murdered by Piety, leaving Jonah and Sophie in an alliance of questionable morality to establish a ruling dynasty over the entire city. Breakspear's death results in the ghettoization of ''all'' the Burgue's fae in Carnival Row. Imogen and Agreus flee, but Ezra is on their trail.]]

* HuskyRusskie: {{Subverted}} with the Pact. While their army is brutal and frighteningly efficient at what they're doing (not to mention [[spoiler:not averse to a Communist uprising]]) and despite the fact that they're no strangers to fur hats and snowy forests, they're not stereotypically brawny and the little we see of their homeland in Season 2 (namely the port of Ragusa) is sunny and mediterranean (and more reminiscent of Sevastopol in summer than Arkhangelsk in winter).

* HuskyRusskie: {{Subverted}} with the Pact. While their army is brutal and frighteningly efficient at what they're doing (not to mention [[spoiler:not averse to a Communist uprising]]) and they're no strangers to to fur hats and snowy forests, they're not stereotypically brawny and the little we see of their homeland (namely the port of Ragusa) is sunny and mediterranean (more reminiscent of Sevastopol in summer than Arkhangelsk in winter).

* HuskyRusskie: {{Subverted}} with the Pact. While their army is brutal and frighteningly efficient at what they're doing (not to mention [[spoiler:not averse to a Communist uprising]]) and they're no strangers to to fur hats and snowy forests, they're not stereotypically brawny and the little we see of their homeland (namely the port of Ragusa) is sunny and mediterranean (more reminiscent of Sevastopol in summer than Arkangel in winter).

** The Republic of the Burgue is clearly inspired heavily by VictorianLondon, from clothing to technology. Being a republic, it's governed by a parliament very similar to a unified version of the UK's Parliament. The Burguish flag looks similar to the Union Jack, albeit in darker colors. Season 2 offers a glimpse on their court proceedings and church services, which are at least viually reminiscent of Common Law and Anglicanism respectively (though generously ColourCodedForYourConvenience in teal). Philo even reads a "[[ScienceFiction scientific romance]]" about people going to the moon, something that grew prominent in the late 1800s with books like ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon''.

** The Republic of the Burgue is clearly inspired heavily by VictorianLondon, from clothing to technology. Being a republic, it's governed by a parliament very similar to a unified version of the UK's Parliament. The Burguish flag looks similar to the Union Jack, albeit in darker colors. Season 2 offers a glimpse on their court proceedings and church services, which are at least viually reminiscent of Common Law and Anglicanism respectively (though generously ColourCOdedForYourConvenience in teal). Philo even reads a "[[ScienceFiction scientific romance]]" about people going to the moon, something that grew prominent in the late 1800s with books like ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon''.

** The Republic of the Burgue is clearly inspired heavily by VictorianLondon, from clothing to technology. Being a republic, it's governed by a parliament very similar to a unified version of the UK's Parliament. The Burguish flag looks similar to the Union Jack, albeit in darker colors. Philo even reads a "[[ScienceFiction scientific romance]]" about people going to the moon, something that grew prominent in the late 1800s with books like ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon''.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The Faun cultists slaughter a human bigot in a ritualistic manner, and then kill one of their kind who's a servant to impersonate him in an attempt to murder the Chancellor. All this only leads to harsh measures against all the Fae in retaliation, likely fomenting further unrest.

* InterspeciesRomance: The one between Philo (a human) and Vignette (a faerie) is the core romance of the show, albeit very much 'off' for most of the first season. [[spoiler:Philo is also the product of one himself. Imogen and Agreus also end up falling in love and running away together at the end of the season one finale.]]

** The Pact, the human enemy in the colonial war that the Burgue was fighting over the territory of Tirnanoc, has soldiers dressed in clothing that seem based on Tsarist Russia or perhaps the troops of 19th century Middle Eastern or Central Asian kingdoms. Which together with the architecture and snowy landscape in the mountain temple in episode 3 and the clothing style of the Fae make this conflict seem like a mix between various proxy-wars that were part of the so-called [[Literature/TheGreatGame "Great Game"]], like the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the First/Second/Third Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1919). In Season 2, the Pact even [[spoiler: goes through its own equivalent of UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions the Russian Revolution]] (specifically, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_mutinies Kronstadt Mutiny]])]].

** The Pact, the human enemy in the colonial war that the Burgue was fighting over the territory of Tirnanoc, has soldiers dressed in clothing that seem based on Tsarist Russia or perhaps the troops of 19th century Middle Eastern or Central Asian kingdoms. Which together with the architecture and snowy landscape in the mountain temple in episode 3 and the clothing style of the Fae make this conflict seem like a mix between various proxy-wars that were part of the so-called [[Literature/TheGreatGame "Great Game"]], like the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the First/Second/Third Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1919). In Season 2, the Pact even [[spoiler: goes through its own equivalent of UsefulNotes/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions the Russian Revolution (specifically, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_mutinies Kronstadt Mutiny]])]].

** The Pact, the human enemy in the colonial war that the Burgue was fighting over the territory of Tirnanoc, has soldiers dressed in clothing that seem based on Tsarist Russia or perhaps the troops of 19th century Middle Eastern or Central Asian kingdoms. Which together with the architecture and snowy landscape in the mountain temple in episode 3 and the clothing style of the Fae make this conflict seem like a mix between various proxy-wars that were part of the so-called [[Literature/TheGreatGame "Great Game"]], like the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the First/Second/Third Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1919). In Season 2, the Pact even [[spoiler: goes through its own equivalent of UsefulNotes/RedOctober (specifically, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_mutinies Kronstadt Mutiny]])]].

** The Pact, the human enemy in the colonial war that the Burgue was fighting over the territory of Tirnanoc, has soldiers dressed in clothing that seem based on Tsarist Russia or perhaps the troops of 19th century Middle Eastern or Central Asian kingdoms. Which together with the architecture and snowy landscape in the mountain temple in episode 3 and the clothing style of the Fae make this conflict seem like a mix between various proxy-wars that were part of the so-called [[Literature/TheGreatGame "Great Game"]], like the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the First/Second/Third Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1919). In Season 2, the pact even [[spoiler: goes through its own equivalent of UsefulNotes/RedOctober (specifically, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_mutinies Kronstadt Mutiny]])]].

** The Pact, the human enemy in the colonial war that the Burgue was fighting over the territory of Tirnanoc, has soldiers dressed in clothing that seem based on Tsarist Russia or perhaps the troops of 19th century Middle Eastern or Central Asian kingdoms. Which together with the architecture and snowy landscape in the mountain temple in episode 3 and the clothing style of the Fae make this conflict seem like a mix between various proxy-wars that were part of the so-called [[Literature/TheGreatGame "Great Game"]], like the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the First/Second/Third Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1919).

* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: Season 1 has the political plotline at the top of the Burgue, which interlocks with Philo's murder investigation and Vignette's misadventures at the bottom of it. Then there's the C-plot with Agreus Astrayon and the Spurnrose siblings, which barely interacts with the other two (Vignette is briefly a maid at the Spurnrose house, then [[spoiler:Agreus and Imogen leave town ahead of the Burgue confining all the fae to the Row]] at the end of the season]]). Season 2 plays similarly, with the Burgue politics story, the fae trying to survive the FantasticGhetto and another paranormal murder investigation, and then the C-plot with Agreus and Imogen stranded in the middle of the Pact's communist revolution.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: From what we see of the war between the Burgue and the Pact, it seems to be this. The Burgue is a racist would-be empire who treat the Fae poorly and then abandon them when they lose the war. The Pact, however, appear to be AlwaysChaoticEvil who are first shown committing what appears to be an ethnic cleansing against the Fae, and have gone so far as to deliberately infect their soldiers with lycanthropy to give them an advantage in combat. The roleplaying game states that during the war, the Fae would loudly curse the Burgue and the Pact alike, but quietly hope that the Burgue would win.