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Carnival Row
Source: Amazon Studios
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When Amazon Studios wanted to shoot a fantasy-world Victorian city grappling with racial strife over fairy war refugees and goat-like servants, it turned to Prague.
It was here that sullen-faced Orlando Bloom tromped through Carnival Row searching for a vicious killer in the eight-part fantasy series. Around the same time, an equally grim Henry Cavill hunted monsters across the Polish countryside in the Netflix series The Witcher and a dour Daniel Bruhl stalked the alleyways of Budapest as the protagonist of the TNT drama, The Alienist.