Carnivàle

Back in the beginning of 21st century there was no show on tv that was brave enough to protray good vs evil, Carnivale was the first show to take on this matter and it was doing it brilliantly and this is why the story and drama feels so fresh and unique while you watch and there is no bullshit filler, its just business. After Carnivale so many supernatural shows aired on tv but they all followed because of Carnivale's fanbase. Shame it was canceled and that's because of HBO's financial decisions and nothing to do with show's quality.

This show could have been a milestone if HBO didn't cancelled it after two seasons!

Seriously not happy about the cancellation of this series. It was solid, highly entertaining and unique. I absolutely loved watching this show and will miss it. I cant believe it got cancelled.

Agreed, this show was one of my favorites and it needs way more than 2 seasons! I wish they would have at least wrapped it up with a HBO movie.

An amazing show! The battle between good and evil played out in the 1930s is a perfect setting. The carnival really allowed to it create some amazing characters that are played by a great cast. Something about it really resonates with me! Obviously the show was way too deep for general consumption. Very few clichés and lots of moving parts. It really conveyed they feeling of the people who were really driven out of the central states, and were called migrants at the time. My biggest con would be that they did not focus on the good vs evil enough. But that could of just been a problem because they were canceled before it could really take off.

Why did it take me so long to find a ace of a show like this?

What were your plans for what would have come in the four unmade seasons?

DK: Like I said, I’m not going to claim I knew the minute detail. Season three is five years later. We find Jonesy—he survived his gunshot wound and is pitching for a professional baseball team. His wife [Libby] is a typical baseball wife back in ’39. The carnival is completely split up; everybody’s gone their separate ways. The only vestige of the carnival as it was is Ben and Samson, and they’re working at another carnival, still on Management’s trail.

Then on the Brother Justin side, we find he’s become this incredibly politically influential radio preacher. And there’s Iris and Sofie, and they’re both in this fight. He’s a shell, almost, and these two women are in a power struggle over who’s controlling Brother Justin. Sofie is Brother Justin’s wife. Of course, she’s his daughter, but he doesn’t know that. She knows that. She could bring him down pretty easily, but she’s afraid of herself now, too.
Then we introduce, in the very first episode, you see this 4-year-old kid come running up and hugging Brother Justin, saying “Daddy.” Is this Brother Justin’s child, or is this Ben’s child, because they both had relations with Sofie? That would kind of tee us off to the second one. That would take us through the war. And then the first half of that would be, “Avengers assemble,” winds of war calling them together, gotta get this group back together again. Ben’s like, “This isn’t just about me. This is about us.” And pulling everybody out of their lives and answering this call, and moving into going to Europe to try to acquire these documents or… I knew they were going to be talismans. What they’re going to need when they’re engaged in this war. Then there’d be a confrontation of some sort at the end of season four.

Then taking us to the end, it’s all about the [atomic] bomb. It’s all about the Manhattan Project and worrying about it, finding out what it is.

Sad that the unique ones die so quickly sure it was a plain good vs evil but its execution was great and it was one of the few shows that kept me from watching anything else during the week or so it took to finish it. Its really good and really worth my time.