Review Carnivale: The Complete First Season

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Sometimes you see something pass you buy and its just a mirage. Other times you see something and its a miracle in the works. The only thing with miracles is that sometimes, when you close enough, you notice they have a price. and the miracles in this show seem to have a really steep one.

Carnivale begins in the middle of the Dust Bowl, with an old home about to be torn down. A son sits with his mother and says he can ease her pain but, strangely, she calls him the spawn of the Devil and says she'd rather die. She does, too, and after the son sees her buried he also sees something that he can't quite make out - in some ways it seems like an opprotunity and in others it seems like another way to find his time wasted. Regardless, he knows he has nothing to lose and gears up for what becomes a weird and wild ride through the middle of the nothing, encountering blackened miracles and false prophets on his way to something more.
Its really an interesting story.

As far as everything goes, the story does develop slowly and, sometimes, you feel as though you are bbeing left out of something. There are other times when that same piece comes back and brings you into the fold, noting exactly why something happened and exactly how it fits in. The thing that keeps this from hurting the story is good acting and little oddities that seem to plague this place, from a girl who tells fortunes through the voice of a mother only she can hear to even strange variations of odd.
That's what drew me in - the places they stop, the ways things move; everything revolves and evolves until it it becomes the thing you want and more.

for the cost of the product, you really have nothing to lose. You also have another season to go through as well and, when the two meet, all sorts of visions seem to mnaifest. A lot of other people have better comments on this but I can only give you want I think and I think this was done well. From the clothing and the set-up of the time to the people that are utilized and the weird things that seem to be happening, everything works in your favor. The question shouldn't be why you shouuld pass it up; it should be why you would want to.

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Carnivale: The Complete First Season Overview

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 Podeswa
Featurette:"Making of Carnivale" Featurette detailing how set and costume designers collaborated to achieve the look of the Dustbowl in the 1930s

Carnivale: The Complete First Season Specifications

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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Customer Reviews

carnivale season I - semy -
I loved the series while it was on TV. I have enjoyed watching it again.






We're not in Kansas anymore... - Les - Virginia
It was clear after watching only one episode of Season One that we were in for a different sort of series. It is actually set in 1934 in the middle of America which does include Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and others - during the difficult times of the depression. However, the story line is rich with a mix of good, evil, magic, visions, intrigue, and mystery that are delivered in such a way as to make the abnormal seem normal. After watching an episode you are left wondering what things occurred in the episode that might be clues to the past or future events. It is definitely not your normal series. HBO does it again - gives us something original. I've only watched 3 episodes, yet I imagine the story will hold up for at least this first season. I'm hopeful it will be just as inventive in Season Two.



A Masterwork of Story Arc Episodic Television - Flash - Cleveland, OH USA
There are a small number of TV shows I've seen that have approached true greatness. Two of them, Carnivale and Firefly unfortunately didn't get the chance to fulfill their entire vision. The one show that did, The Wire, did have a full five seasons to tell the entire story. Another show, Lost, although very good, didn't quite measure up to greatness in the end.

I just finished watching both seasons of Carnivale and I can definitely say that the experience was like reading a deep, involved, mysterious novel where the story enfolds at a perfect pace and builds to a satisfying end place. The development of characters is one of the highlights of this show. The characters appear genuine despite the supernatural elements, they are numerous enough and fully developed over the series to keep you interested in all of them, and their interactions are complex and critical to the story. The look and feel of this show is also genuine for the time period with dust storms, dirty fingernails and carnival creepies. Underlying this is a story of epic proportions; the historic battle of good and evil, supernatural powers and mystical beings (avatars). Put it all together and this is one excellent show.

Despite the fact that this series was cut short (it was planned for six seasons), the conclusion is still meaningful and satisfying. Yes. It leaves you wanting more because by the end of season 2, you get it. You understand how awesome this show really is. Oh what could have been!! Why is it that the TV Exec's don't have the patience to let greatness blossom? Let the visionaries (in this case the show's creator, Daniel Knauf) tell the whole story they want to tell.

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