Carnivale - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Guy Chapman (II), Hot PieBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Home Video
Movie Reviews of Carnivale - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: great series
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved each episode of this series. It's not like most shows. It packs in a lot of plot and interesting background, which is probably why they canceled it. This season wraps up most loose ends, but not all. Don't expect to feel satisfied at the end. Another thing to keep in mind is that this show has fair amount of violence. You probably don't want to watch this right before bed time. This is coming from a guy who's seen many horror shows. The characters are all interesting, too. They went to a lot of work to flesh them all out.
Summary of Carnivale - The Complete First Season
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.Running Time: 720 min.System Requirements:Running Time 720 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 026359885723 Manufacturer No: 98857Carniv?le 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 Garc?a (son of Gabriel Garc?a 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), Carniv?le 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 Garc?a, one of these characters will be dead. Carniv?le 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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