Ah Carnivale...Even classifying it is difficult. It is not your standard action packed story-driven show, neither is it some pretentious boring drama with a social message.
It doesn't try to entertain the viewer, neither does it try to teach them something. It's only purpose seems to be immersing into it's world without promising anything.
Simply put i would describe it a collage of events that take place in a pseudohistorical time period, focusing on a group of weird but fascinating characters, with the emphasis being on the music,setting and atmosphere rather than on the usual superficial aspects of most shows.
This is perhaps Carnivale's main achievement...you don't know what you're going to watch in the next episode, there is no pattern or motiff that the show settles in unlike anything else i've ever watched.
Hell, i'm going to close this review by saying that Carnivale is a tv show in name only. It doesn't follow the usual tv conventions or even the usual storrytelling conventions. For me it is an artistic achievement, a masterpiece, and that's a word i rarely use, if ever.
It doesn't try to entertain the viewer, neither does it try to teach them something. It's only purpose seems to be immersing into it's world without promising anything.
Simply put i would describe it a collage of events that take place in a pseudohistorical time period, focusing on a group of weird but fascinating characters, with the emphasis being on the music,setting and atmosphere rather than on the usual superficial aspects of most shows.
This is perhaps Carnivale's main achievement...you don't know what you're going to watch in the next episode, there is no pattern or motiff that the show settles in unlike anything else i've ever watched.
Hell, i'm going to close this review by saying that Carnivale is a tv show in name only. It doesn't follow the usual tv conventions or even the usual storrytelling conventions. For me it is an artistic achievement, a masterpiece, and that's a word i rarely use, if ever.