'Carnival Row' Season 2 - TV Review

Review of the first season is here.

Agreus and Imogen flee the Burgue, but are captured by the New Dawn - and here we get a very Communist view of an egalitarian society. The New Dawn has taken over most of the Pact's territory - and the Pact, in desperation, turns to the Burge for weapons. Vignette carries on with the Black Raven, going Pix extremist. Tourmaline has turned into a witch, and weirdly ends up roommates with Philo's old war buddy (who is also a "Marrok," or werewolf). Philo has outed himself as a half-breed, and is locked up in the Row with all the other Critch. But a Sparas is killing dozens of people, and the police are so desperate to stop it they let Philo out.

It's complicated.

As mentioned in the previous review, this series had too much going on. Which meant that when it came to wrap it up in one season ... there was a lot of wrapping to do. Some of the battles were believable enough, but the outcomes ... I don't think racism throughout an entire nation can be ended overnight (okay, it wasn't ended - but it was massively, and just as unbelievably, curtailed in days or weeks).

For all my complaints, I still mostly enjoyed it. And it does have one HUGE virtue: it wraps up. They knew the end was coming, and they tied up the loose ends.