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Carnival Row 2×02 New Dawn

Imogen (Tamzin Merchant) and Agreus (David Gyasi) are taken to a city named Ragusa which was formerly under Pact authoritiy and at war with The Burgue. Now it is under the control of New Dawn, a socialist and revolutionary movement slowly taking over Pact territories. The two lovers are forcefully separated: Imogen is brought to a house, where she meets Leonora (Joanne Whalley), a faun with a broken, while Agreus finds himself in front of a firing squad executing his crew.

The Pact are now seeking military help against New Dawn, which are not only a thread to The Pact but the Burghish society as well. Chancellor Jonah Breakspear (Arty Froushan) under Sophie Longerbane’s (Caroline Ford) influence pledges support and throws a lavish dinner party for the Pact’s delegates with Ezra Spurnrose (Andrew Gower) attending the festivities. Ezra is met with concerned questions about his sister which he deflects by claiming she was abducted by pucks and the police are looking for her.

Philo (Orlando Bloom) hopes to destroy the Chancellor’s reputation and end the lockdown on Carnival Row by revealing himself as Absalom Breakspear’s (Jared Harris) true (and half-fae) oldest son. With the help of Runyan Millworthy (Simon McBurney) he is smuggled into the great hall where the banquet is about to start. However, he is interrupted by a group of Black Raven crushing through the glass ceiling of the great hall. Vignette (Cara Delevingne) has developed her own plan to confront the Burgue’s elite with her people’s suffering.

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Carnival Row 2×01 Fight or Flight

The fae folk are suffering under the new Chancellor Jonah Breakspear’s (Arty Froushan) imposed incarceration of the residents of Carnival Row. Due to the flying ban, many of them succumb to an uncurable desease. To ease their pain,Vignette (Cara Delevingne) and the Black Raven go on a dangerous mission to steal medicine from a supply train. Meanwhile Philo (Orlando Bloom) takes part in an illegal underground fight club to gain mysterious favor from the ringleader.

The next day Ezra Spurnrose (Andrew Gower) is part of the crowd watching the public execution of some fauns who are wrongly accused of the assassination of Absalom (Jared Harris) and Piety Breakspear (Indira Varma). His sister Imogen (Tamzin Merchant) is still on the run with her Puck lover Agreus (David Gyasi). Outwardly still happily in love, Imogen is plagued by nightmares of her brother while Agreus grows increasingly tired of hiding. Their honeymoon bliss is further disturbed when a mysterious airship attacks their boat.

Tourmaline Larou (Karla Crome), former poet laureate, Vignette’s ex-lover and employee at the brothel on Carnival Row, is having visions of the murdered Haruspex Aoife Tsigani (Alice Krige) and the future, which turn out to be true, when Philo is called to a crime scene by Constable Berwick (Waj Ali). Despite no longer working for the police and the prejudice Philo faces for being half-fae, Berwick seeks his help to solve the brutal homicide of a soldier stationed on the supply train robbed by the Black Raven.

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