Why Must Such Fascinating Things Remain Out Of Reach?

The Amazon Prime Original Series, Carnival Row (based on Travis Beacham's unproduced screenplay, A Killing on Carnival Row, premiered on the streaming service yesterday, a neo-noir urban fantasy set in an alternate Victorian London starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne as a fairy (which is genuinely great casting) working together to solve a series of killings on the titular Carnival Row.

Its designs and atmosphere seem simply spectacular and filled with the sort of things I'd wanted to see in a TV series all my life.

...and it's on a streaming service I will never use. Between The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Carnival Row, and Undone, I fear that's a lot of content up my alley I'll never see.

I hate this streaming bubble, especially knowing most of the content in this wave of services will never be released on physical media and eventually lost. It is a damn shame, a genuine shame where we're unsure such craftsmanship may be totally forgotten going forward, relegated to unreliable digital servers instead of properly archived.

It's deeply concerning. - The Songbird