The official Carnival Row Twitter account shared these new character posters for the show’s second and final season.
Carnival Row will end next year despite having a loyal fanbase, making Season 2 an emotional farewell to its cast of beloved characters.
The first image shows Rycroft “Philo” Philostrate (Orlando Bloom), a former police inspector in The Burgue, a human republic where social tensions reach a boiling point after more and more fae immigrate reach the city trying to escape a brutal war. At the end of Season 1, Philo was revealed as being half-fae himself and in a final move decided to leave the police and side with the other fae.
In Season 2, Philo will investigate a series of gruesome murders while uncovering a conspiracy at the city’s heart.
Philo’s former lover Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne), a fairy, came as a fugitive to The Burgue in Season 1. After being forced to work as an indentured servant to the Spurnrose family, she joined a band of fae renegades and realized how humans oppressed other creatures in Burgue. Now, in Season 2, Vignette is plotting a revolution to take down the human leaders who contribute to the marginalization of the fae.
The central image shows Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) and Agreus Astrayon (David Gyasi). Imogen is a human while Agreus is a faun, but they fall in love on Carnival Row’s first season, challenging social norms and shocking the high society. As the conflict between humans and fae evolves in Season 2, their love might symbolize hope and how everyone can still share the same world.
We will also see the return of the Burgue’s human leaders, Jonah Breakspear (Arty Froushan) and Sophie Longerbane (Caroline Ford); former fae poet laureate turned prostitute and Vignette’s friend Tourmaline (Karla Crome); as well as Imogen’s vengeful brother Ezra (Andrew Gower).
Season 2 of Carnival Row comes to Prime Video on 17 February 2023, with the ten episodes of the season expected to roll out weekly.
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(Sources: Vanity Fair & Collider)
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