Prime VideoCarnival Row (2019)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.5
Overview
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoBias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Christianity: Negative
Overview
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
Carnival Row explicitly critiques systemic oppression and xenophobia against marginalized groups, portraying a society grappling with issues of refugee rights, class struggle, and identity-based discrimination. Its narrative champions social justice and the dismantling of prejudiced power structures, aligning with progressive ideology.
The series features visible diversity within its cast, particularly among the mythical creature characters. Its narrative is fundamentally built around themes of xenophobia, classism, and oppression, explicitly portraying the dominant human society as prejudiced and critiquing these societal structures.
Secondary
Carnival Row features a prominent lesbian relationship between Tourmaline Larou and Vignette Stonemoss. Their bond is depicted with dignity, complexity, and genuine affection, facing external societal and personal challenges rather than internal struggles related to their queer identity. The show portrays them as multifaceted characters with agency, contributing positively to LGBTQ+ representation.
The dominant human religion in The Burgue, though unnamed, functions as a state-backed monotheistic faith with clear Christian parallels in its iconography and institutional structure. The film portrays its institutions and adherents, particularly those in power, as hypocritical and using religious rhetoric to justify xenophobia and oppression against the fae. The narrative critiques this religion as a tool for social control.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Carnival Row is an original fantasy series based on an unproduced spec script. Its characters are new creations for this specific story and do not have prior canonical, historical, or widely established genders from other source material to be compared against.
Carnival Row is an original fantasy series based on a spec script, not an adaptation of pre-existing material with established character races. Therefore, no characters had a canonically or historically defined race to be swapped from.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
6.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
7.7
7.7
Critic Ratings
4.8
5.8
More Like This
Leans Progressive
6.5
Gran Turismo
(2023)
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Leans Progressive
7.3
Deep Cover
(2025)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Progressive
7.8
Wind River
(2017)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Leans Progressive
8.3
Hell or High Water
(2016)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Progressive
8.2
West Side Story
(1961)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Leans Progressive
7.5
Training Day
(2001)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Progressive
6.8
Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Leans Progressive
6.7
I Love You Phillip Morris
(2010)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Progressive
7.7
Widows
(2018)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Neutral
Progressive
8.2
In the Heat of the Night
(1967)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Negative
Progressive
8.3
The Hate U Give
(2018)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Progressive
7.9
West Side Story
(2021)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Leans Progressive
6.9
Changeling
(2008)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Leans Progressive
7.5
Jackie Brown
(1997)
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Leans Progressive
7.6
Dope
(2015)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Leans Progressive
7.1
The Burning Bed
(1984)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Low
Center
6.6
Trance
(2013)
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Progressive
7.7
Just Mercy
(2019)
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Leans Progressive
7.2
The Card Counter
(2021)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Progressive
7.8
The Green Mile
(1999)
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High