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Carnivale: The Complete First Season

Michael J. Anderson (Actor), Adrienne Barbeau (Actor), Alison Maclean (Director), Jack Bender (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD
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Carnivàle doesn't waste any time making its--wildly ambitious--aims clear. As carnival manager Samson (Michael J. Anderson, Twin Peaks' diminutive backwards-talker) notes in pilot episode "Milfay," directed by Rodrigo García (son of Gabriel García Marquez), "To each generation [is] born a creature of light and a creature of darkness." With that the story begins. The year is 1934, the setting the Oklahoma dustbowl. In short order, Ben Hawkins (In the Bedroom's Nick Stahl) loses his mother and his home. He's poor, he's alone--he needs a job. So he joins Samson's carnival, en route to the West. Hawkins, naturally, is the good guy. Waiting for him in California is the not so good Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown, The Shawshank Redemption), a fire and brimstone preacher with supernatural powers and a fiercely loyal sister (Amy Madigan). Hawkins, as it turns out, has similar powers....

Created by Daniel Knauf (Wolf Lake), Carnivàle feels like David Lynch (weird, slow, occasionally kinky), plays like American Gothic (Shaun Cassidy's cult series about a good kid and an evil sheriff), and looks like John Ford's Grapes of Wrath. It features one of television's most colorful casts of characters. They include Sophie (Clea DuVall), who reads fortunes--with her comatose mother's assistance, the vaguely sinister Lodz (Patrick Bauchau), blind absinthe-drinker and mentalist (he can see both the future and the past), and Ruthie (Adrienne Barbeau), snake charmer, strongman's mother, and all-around maternal figure. By the final episode of the season ("The Day That Was the Day"), also directed by García, one of these characters will be dead. Carnivàle won five richly deserved technical Emmys for its first year, including awards for cinematography and art direction. Like HBO's edgy Deadwood, it's period drama for people who don't normally like period drama. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pistilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. And when it is over, man will forever trade away wonder for reason. See the conflict of good vs. evil played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit, and an evangelical ministry in California. DVD Features:Audio Commentary:3 Audio Commentaries with Creator Daniel Knauf, Executive Producer Howard Klein and Directors Rodrigo Garcia and Jeremy PodeswaFeaturette:"Making of Carnivale" Featurette detailing how set and costume designers collaborated to achieve the look of the Dustbowl in the 1930s
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than any TV and Movie in history!!! Sep 12 2006
By Nicole
Format:DVD
This is a extraordinarilly magnificent televition series that will, in my opinion, never be close to equaled. With a brilliant story line intertwining magic, carnivale curiosities, religion and all taking place in the depression of the 1930's. Carnival also has a cast of wonderfull actors, fabulouse cinematography and art direction, a whimsicly perfect sound track and much more.

It is a great dissapointment that this wonderfull show had to be abrutly ended at only the second season by cancelation, shame on you HBO!!!
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Totally Addictive Jan 12 2005
By gailp
Format:DVD
The first thing I said upon finishing this series was "Oh my God, I can't wait for season 2. How can I get HBO?". Carnivale is a dark mix of drama, occult and soap opera revolving around the relationships, powers, secrets and talents of a travelling carnival during the 1930's.
It is well worth the time investment and I highly recommend it to anyone. Once you're done, nothing is answered and you'll go through total withdrawl.
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5.0 out of 5 stars So wonderful!!! May 19 2013
By Diane Pick-Ross
Format:DVD
I only had to watch 3 episodes of this series to discover it's one of the most interesting,strange,intriguing,series I have ever seen! Everything about it- the story,scenery,costumes,the strange characters,the wonderful plot... is very,very well done.It seems that almost all the people have something to hide,and I can't wait to find out all their secrets!! I wish I could go into more detail... but you can find out for yourself all the little surprises!!
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Published 17 days ago by patricklewis
3.0 out of 5 stars Disc 1
Sadly after two attempts to get a working set - had to return as the first disc in each set did not work.
Published 3 months ago by Hannah Brooker
4.0 out of 5 stars I bought this item as a gift
I bought "Carnivale: The Complete First Season" as a gift for a friend in Vancouver. The estimated shipment dates were bleak, however the item was delivered quite quickly --... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Gabby
5.0 out of 5 stars Eerie and unusual!
I have just finished watching Season 1 of "Carnivale" and I loved it!! What a shame that it was cancelled after two Seasons. (I am looking forward to buying Season 2. Read more
Published 21 months ago by RocknRobyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun despite being unfinished
This is a really interesting, dark show despite it never finishing (there's a second season, but it was cancelled after that). Read more
Published 22 months ago by Zed
5.0 out of 5 stars Addicting!
I had heard good things about this series so got it when it was on sale. Strangely addicting, its a dark story about good and evil in a really dark time in history. Read more
Published 22 months ago by ccryder
5.0 out of 5 stars strangely hypnotic
Even more than the fact that I am loving this series, I wanted to say something great about amazon.ca themselves. I had received the first season of Carnivale for my birthday. Read more
Published on Dec 13 2006 by Richard B. Thompson
4.0 out of 5 stars wild ride
I was impressed with this series and would recomend this to anyone who enjoys supernatural stuff. I especially enjoyed the episode where they travel to a mining town. Read more
Published on Mar 21 2006 by leslie
5.0 out of 5 stars When does the Season 2 set go on sale?!?!?
I watched some of this series when it was on TV but missed the first couple of shows and one near the end so I wanted to buy this set so I could see the entire thing. Read more
Published on Feb 19 2006
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