Carnival Row

[Drunk Monk]

Watched E1. It's a predictable mash-up - Dickensian Jack-the-ripper-esque meets the faerie world with a tiny dose of Jane Austin, and the immigrant/other metaphor hits you on the head like a serial killer's hammer.  It's odd seeing Orlando as a human, not a faerie or a pirate; he's an inspector and he's kinda meh.  I like Cara - my first exposure to her - she's got a dark feral-ness to her eyes that works for her character.  Those eyebrows. She's the best thing going for the show so far.  I expected it to be a bit more steampunk and it may go there soon.  It was about to write it off, but then it took a Lovecraftian twist, so I'll probably go for another ep.  Boobs & boy butts but after GoT, it's ineffective gratuitousness.  The various fae creatures aren't quite defined yet - there's women with 'hollow bones' and dragonfly wings and there's critches with rams horns (both sexes) coiling about their heads like Princess Leia sidebuns.  And there's some sort of tentacled lovecraft thang but too dark to see really.  Maybe I projected tentacles. I hope there are tentacles.  Tentacles are the next best thing after sword fights.  Bring on the tentacles.  

This would work a tad better for me if the British accents weren't so random, as in every actor just doing whatever brit accent they can approximate. It would've been great if all the fae critches had Irish accents or Scottish accents.