Carnivale - The Complete First Season | 
| Actors: Guy Chapman (ii), Hot Pie
Studio: HBO Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  153 reviews
Sales Rank: 893
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Russian (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 720
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.8 x 1.8
MPN: HBOD98857D
ISBN: 078312838X
UPC: 026359885723
EAN: 9780783128382
ASIN: B0002YLC1U
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 2003
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 01/06/2009 Run time: 720 minutes Rating: Nr
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Carnivale 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 Garcia (son of Gabriel Garcia 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), Carnivale 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 Garcia, one of these characters will be dead. Carnivale 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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 Never received it! Is theft or loss like this common? December 6, 2008
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
I never received this item, it never arrived! How can I trust Amazon reliability if theft or whatever happened continues like my experience ? The thought of this happening again will always linger in my mind for every item I will buy from Amazon in the future, I will ask, "Will this purchase get to me? Will it be stolen or lost too?"
 one of best show of hbo ever December 5, 2008
Carnivale was one of the best show around and it is shame they only did two season of to date. This for only 20,00 just around up folks, is steal for such a wonderful show. Some shows are crap and most of them are, but this was a great show.
Thoroughly captivating November 30, 2008
From the very cool opening titles, where you zoom into Tarot cards 3-D style that are fused with scenes from the Great Depression, all set to mind-bending music, you are sucked into another world. Moving among the lives of freaks and oddities feels perfectly normal; irrational plots somehow become utterly believeable...This show is really beautiful art!
 We Live By A Code... October 17, 2008
Amazing show, but PAINFULLY slow. It took about two episodes to get me hooked, but once it did, Carnivale delivered. The characters and their actions keep the viewer interested even when the "main story" isn't moving along. No matter how slow, each episode seems to have a "pay-off" style ending with a surprise or twist in store for the dedicated viewer. I wish I could give this series more than three stars, but, to be honest, this series is only going to truly intrigue a hardcore fan of the genre.
One of the best yet lesser known shows to ever be on TV. October 4, 2008
I'm a big fan of many of the HBO TV series that have come out in the past including Soprano's, The Wire, Entourage, Deadwood, etc. and I beleive this is definatly one of the best. It's full of suspense has an incredible story and keeps you watching for hours on end. More than worth the money for anyone who loves HBO.
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