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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
| ACTORS: | Rodrigo Garcia |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 6 |
| UPC: | 026359885723 |
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Customer Reviews of Carnivale - The Complete First Season
YES IT"S WORTH FIVE STARS!!! I knew that this show was going to be incredible when I heard the buzz about it and saw the previews on television. Well, I watched it from start to finish, and it was unbelievable. This show even rivals my all-time favorites: Xena and The X-Files.
This show is very complex and could take some time to get into for the superficial viewer, but it's worth the experience, although it can be mind-boggling and horrific sometimes. The scariest episode was the one where one of the "hoochie coochie" dancers was garnered the fate of "scarlet" and killed to please the restless souls of evil men. In the end her soul was restless and only to serve as the tortured soul herself, but as the souless men's sex partner. On the last part of that episode when the head of the carnival glimpsed at the window and saw the "hoochie coochie" girl standing there as if she was beginning her fate in the eternity of being sad and then being pulles away to have sex by a souless man that scared the heck out of me.
The show I speak about above isn't the only horriffic or mind-boggling episode of this season, but one that scered me the most. their are many more. Bottomline, this show is unbelievably entertaining. A must see!
Best show HBO has ever produced...period.
I'm a fan and collector of HBO series. They consistently deliver the goods. Carnivale is the latest in a string of amazing television series that includes the Sopranoes, Curb your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Sex in the City, OZ, The Wire, etc. However, with Carnivale, HBO has outdone themselves. I doubt anything has ever been attempted on television quite to the scale of this show. Amazing.
Great Cast, Great acting, great set design and art direction, amazing attention to detail. This show is often compared to Twin Peaks, or X-Files because of its round about storytelling and elements of strangeness. Let me assure you there is one big difference between the shows...the makers of Carnivale actually know where they are going with the story, instead of making it up as they go along. This is one satisfying show. WARNING: Product is highly addictive!
Now if they would just hurry the damn second season along....
Mind blowing and original
I thought from the previews and a behind-the-scenes special that I would very much like this series. But after seeing the first episode, that hardly described it...fantastic, amazing, beautiful, thrilling...choose your word, Carnivale has everything you could want. It's really the best series to ever make it on the air and truly the most unique show I've ever seen in my life. I generally don't like TV, I'm a movie person, but Carnivale completely stole me away. The plot is so wild and keeps you guessing - even through season one's high intensity finale. It's very, very original and the story is both creepy and moving. The things that happen in it are out of this world and frightening, and the most engaging thing you'll ever see on the air.
If you haven't seen Carnivale, I highly suggest that you buy the DVD. You'll be hooked from the first moment. Just the intro itself is stunning...gypsy-like music playing over a series of beautiful shots that weave in and out of tarot cards, turning the painted pictures to live action and vice-versa. It's one of the only two TV series that I have ever deemed worthy of spending money on. It's probably the hardest show to explain because of how incredibly complex it is, but if you watch it you will understand, and I guarantee you will NOT regret it.