(gasping)
- [Cynia] My star-crossed lover,
he's dead!
- [Vanessa] No, Vignette, Vignette,
he's alive.
- What?!
Oh then I'm gonna kill that (beep)
because we had a funeral,
we had a wake.
I made little quiches for everybody.
- What did we bury?
(upbeat music)
Hey, I'm Vanessa.
- And I'm Cynia and today,
we're breaking down the brand new Amazon original
called Carnival Row!
(upbeat music)
- [Vignette] The chaos of wars brought a new wave
of refugees to these shores.
- Our streets are safe no more.
(cheering)
- This is our city!
- They will never accept us.
They will never understand us.
- [Tourmaline] It's time for a fresh start.
Go to your nadir.
- Now what?
- Phylo's alive.
- You're police?
- I've been charged with finding the man
responsible for these attacks
(gasping)
- You're alive?
You left me in the ashes of my homeland.
♪ This is where we come alive ♪
- This show has everything.
Fairies.
- Yes.
- Uh, beautiful Orlando Bloom
and beautiful Cara Delevingne.
- Yes!
- Allegories about politics, immigration, social injustice.
It has sex.
- Ooooh!
- What do you think?
Should we break it down in sixty seconds?
- Ooh, only if you promise not to spoil anything.
- Pinky?
- Pinky promise.
- Okay, ready?
- Three, two, one.
- We open on a war-torn land where the humans
and the creatures are not co-existing peacefully.
- And Cara Delevingne,
she plays a renegade fairy.
And you would think those two things,
renegade and fairy don't go together, but they do.
And she has like this long widow's braid,
and like we're not sure like what exactly that means.
- And her like former lover is Orlando Bloom
aka Detective Philostrate.
She thought he was dead, but he's alive.
- He's alive!
And it's like, "Uh, where have you been?"
[Laughing] - Tensions are already super, super high
because there's a war going on,
and the Fae have been exiled from their homeland,
and the ones that are still alive are like,
doing whatever they can to survive on Carnival Row.
- Yeah, and Carnival Row is like
this juicy kinda seedy part of town.
And there's this character named Ezra, and he has a sister,
and they live in The Berg, Darling,
very rich, ritzy area.
And Vignette, she's working for them as a servant.
And it's like, is that indentured servitude?
- We think so.
And tragic mystery of attacks,
and there's a lurking in the shadows,
there's this monster!
And it's we don't know what's gonna happen!
- He's killing the Fae!
(buzzer sounding)
(exhaling)
- So I'm thinking about how the show
blends elements of fantasy,
like the fairies and that kind of thing
with elements of reality,
like all the social injustice issues we see.
- Oh, so what I'm hearing you say is
you wanna play two truths and a lie.
- I dunno, you tell me.
Is it that I really, really wanna play,
is it that I ruined the dress that you let me borrow,
or is it that I'm thinking
about growing out my own widow's braid for fun?
- It better be the dress.
- I'm trying very hard to fix it.
Okay, I'm ready.
- Is it one, Vignette has to tie up her wings
while she's working as a lady's maid?
Is it two, the man attacking the Fae has mutton chops?
Or is it three, Phylo is allergic to peas?
- Okay, I've seen Vignette flying around a lot
in the trailer and stuff, so
I think that the lie is that she has to tie up her wings.
(buzzer sounding)
- No.
The lie is that Phylo's allergic to peas.
He's not allergic to peas.
I'm allergic to peas.
Don't you read my newsletter?
- Ready?
- Yes.
- One, Phylo grew up in an orphanage.
Two, Orlando Bloom is an executive producer on the show.
Or three, The Berg was originally called Carnopolis.
- Ooh
- Ooh, so much mystery in this one.
- I feel like he's not an orphan because
he seems to have a rich history,
and we know that he was married to Vignette,
so like, who paid for the wedding?
You know what I mean?
- That's an elaborate answer for
a wrong (buzzer sounding) guess.
- Damn!
(laughing)
- Wow.
- Three is the lie.
The Berg is always been called The Berg.
I just made up Carnopolis.
Although, Amazon.
- Think about it.
- Spinoff.
- All right, my turn, I got one.
Is it one, the series was shot in the Czech Republic?
Is it two, Vignette's last name is Stonemoss?
- Ooooh!
Or is it three, I snuck in on the set one day,
and I'm an extra on Carnival Row?
- Um, okay, first of all, knowing you,
you probably are in that background
somewhere doing your thing.
Ummm...so then it would probably be,
I'm going to go with number one.
Her last name Stonemoss,
that doesn't sound right.
- No, three is the lie.
I'm not an extra.
- You're not?
- No, they didn't call me back.
- I wish I was wrong.
- I know, it's okay, it's okay.
I got the prizes, right?
- Okay
- So, I was so confident I was going to win,
that I got one good prize,
and one like (spitting) prize.
- Okay, can't wait to see.
Show us Vanna, what is it?
- For me, it is this little hat.
- You look like Phylo.
- Right?
Don't kill me, Fae.
- Okay, what's this (spitting) prize?
- Okay, the (spitting) prize is
(gasping)
I got you a widow's braid.
- My widow's braid!
I love it!
Wait, this is the bad prize?
- Yeah.
Thank you for watching the Bustle Breakdown.
Don't forget to watch Carnival Row,
only on Amazon Prime Video this Labor Day weekend.
- You, oh I have to, oh fine.
I'm gonna put it in your nape.
- Put it in there.
- Beautiful!
- Wow!
You're supposed to be sad with this, but I'm thrilled!
(laughing)
Come on, touch it.
Show me you love me and touch it.
(upbeat music)