Carnivale - Season 1 (TV Series)

USA 2003,
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Television, Drama / Fantasy

Topics: Period 1930s, Gothic.

Feat. Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown, John Savage, Clea Duvall, John Fleck, Ralph Waite, John Carroll

Aroview: A most unusual TV series which sets a running duel between two quasi-supernatural figures (Stahl and Brown) in the Oklahoma dustbowl during the depths of the 1930s Depression.

Stahl is on the surface a fugitive from a chain-gang who takes refuge in a travelling carnival filled with various sideshow oddities, while Brown is a charismatic preacher attempting to save the desperate souls around him. Possessed of the kind of off-kilter uncanniness of TWIN PEAKS, this will certainly intrigue David Lynch fans and is worth a look for the more adventurous.

Season 1 over 6 discs.

Episodes: Pilot, After the Ball is Over, Tipton, Black Blizzard, Babylon, Pick a Number, The River, Lonnigan Texas, Insomnia, Hot and Bothered, Day of the Dead, The Day that was the Day