I just finished watching two seasons of HBO's Carnivále. My gosh. I'm glad I finally got around to it. Thank goodness for torrents. Lol!
Years ago when it was playing on HBO back home, a friend mentioned the show and really encouraged me to watch it. But I never got to watch any episode because I always end up catching it when it was playing right in the middle of an episode already, while I was browsing through channels.
Anyway, years later (this year in fact), I still remember that recommendation and decided to try it. Well what do you know, it's now my favorite show. Better than Rome, Game of Thrones, Lost, etc., if not the best. I can't believe it. If this show was broadcast at the time of Twitter and FB, etc., I think it may have had enjoyed more popularity. But then again maybe not. Many good shows today get the ax and the not so good ones remain.
And the actors were all good - especially Nick Stahl, Michael J. Anderson, and Amy Madigan. Wow. It feels kinda bad that Nick Stahl doesn't seem to be too active these days. It's a pity. (I also liked Terminator 3 where Nick Stahl was in, vs the second one).
The set and production design alone for Carnivále was worth buying the DVD sets for the two seasons for which the show ran. It's like I just collected something historical, almost factual, but in very good art form. My goodness. I'm just so amazed by it. HBO's Rome's set design/production effort paled next to this one. Gosh. *shakes head* I liked Rome, Game of Thrones, Lost etc but none of them made me buy their DVDs. I may have thought it but I never did/decided not to. But for this show, I did. Especially when it's probably getting harder to find original DVDs for it as time goes on. It's a great show. I wish it went on for more than 2 seasons but it's all right too that it stopped where it did. Great ending.
