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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. A sweeping epic that is both challenging and highly accessible, this one-hour HBO drama series focuses on the primordial conflict of good vs. evil, as played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit, and an evangelical ministry in California.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Totally Addictive,
By gailp (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Carnivale: The Complete First Season (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.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
strangely hypnotic,
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This review is from: Carnivale: The Complete First Season (DVD)
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. We just finally got around to starting another series here and halfway through the first season I noticed that somehow we had received to episode 3 & 4 discs and no 7 & 8, within one week of writing about the mishap, we received the correct disc. I just wanted to say thanks big time. We were starting to go through withdrawels here.Rich
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better than any TV and Movie in history!!!,
By Nicole "Nikkie" (Montreal, QC Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Carnivale: The Complete First Season (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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