Carnivale

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Anyone besides Erin, Doug and I watching this show regularly? (I know you're trying Lauren!)... I thought it was time for a dorky thread about the show. Discuss...

[iminxtc]

i try to watch it...but its a little weird. im watching now though

[Anti-DieselKitty]

:ripped: I was promised carnie justice!

[buzzboy]

:wtf: are you silly ladies(doesnt wanna refer to cody"dumb bitches") babling about?

[numbskull]

i'm watching. sort of.... which is probably why i'm all :wtf:

[Anti-DieselKitty]

You have to pay close attention... It doesn't make much sense really though. So good, it's really interesting. It would probably help if you'd seen it from the first episode.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Originally posted by buzzboy
:wtf: are you silly ladies(doesnt wanna refer to cody"dumb bitches") babling about?


It's a show on HBO, set in the depression about a traveling carnival, but very fucked up. It's good.




YAY! Carnie justice! An explanation about Scutter too... Where is Doug?

[numbskull]

Originally posted by Anti-DieselKitty
You have to pay close attention... It doesn't make much sense really though. So good, it's really interesting. It would probably help if you'd seen it from the first episode.

i totally saw the first episode and paid close attention to it.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

What about all those ones in between?

[numbskull]

errr.....well.....not. so much really. but i saw parts of them between comercial breaks for coupling on the bbc

[Anti-DieselKitty]

I can't believe you'd miss a show that has a midget, a man child, a lizard man, a comatose psychic, etc.

[numbskull]

but it's coupling!

[Anti-DieselKitty]

But they are CARNIES! C A R N I E S!

[numbskull]

carnies, in my view, have yet to match the sheer comical force of coupling

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Never speak badly of carnies!

[BrianArsenault]

i've seen every episode.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Do you not like it?

[BrianArsenault]

oh it's very interesting. the plot thus far is just plain odd, like it's a David Lynch story or something. plus to shoot all of these shows just seems like such a massive undertaking. plus i'm learning carnie lingo from the '30s. :yes:

this thread needs a pic of some carnies
http://www.synergizedsolutions.com/simpsons/pictures/others/cooderspud.gif

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Carnie lingo is the best... They even have a study guide! http://www.hbo.com/carnivale/lingo/episode_5.shtml

I really like it, they are starting to explain stuff... I'm still lost about the child of light and the child of darkness though.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Carnies according to Google:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/me-us/orientalism/pageantry/images/carnies.jpg

[agentorange]

carnies.......small hands......smell like cabbage.....

[LadyJ]

I've seen the first, third, and fourth episodes (I think). The best description I heard was that Carnivale is Twin Peaks-esque but about carnies during the depression. It's really interesting, but definitely has you saying :wtf:

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Ooohh...that's a good comparison. Good also, because the little person from Twin Peaks is also in Carnivale. (Are they little people now? Or should I just say midget?)

Random but, I read in some magazine at my doctor's office recently that some town in Washington State has a Twin Peaks Festival every year... Complete with cherry pie etc. Crazy.

[Unfeign]

if anyone has read it, there are a ton, TON, of allusions to Milton's Paradise Lost in Carnivale, they really take the Chritian mythos and pagan mythos to the nth degree in this. i'm not convinced that management doesnt exist yet, either...

that whole bit at the end last night about Babylon freaked me out. that bartender will definitely have another part to play, having been killed inside the town limits...

[Nos]

Carnivale is a great show. I'm hooked.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Oh I think management does exist... I don't know in what capacity, but there is definitely something there.... That was totally creepy about Babylon though, especially when he was leaving and he saw Dora Mae at the window naked and someone taking her back farther into the room. Eeekkk.

[Nos]

Plus, Samson is the coolest goddamn midget ever.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

I got distracted right before he shot the bartender, so I'm gonna have to re-watch last night's episode tonight. I saw him get shot, but I didn't hear the whole story.

[elad]

Originally posted by Nos
Plus, Samson is the coolest goddamn midget ever.

:werd: revolver slingin midgets rule all.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

http://www.hbo.com/carnivale/img/90x94/characters/samson.jpg

[elad]

BAD
ASS


i think "management" is the psychic fetus ina jar. :ANden:

and something tells me hes related to the priest. :ANden:

[Anti-DieselKitty]

That picture is so avatar ready....who wants to be Samson...?


This has been bothering me... Are those really conjoined twins or do they just play conjoined twins on tv?

[Moebius]

addicted to that show.

[Capital Zero]

i love carnivale.
very intriguing.

[elad]

its like omg what IS goin on!?

[Capital Zero]

beware the dwarf

[BrianArsenault]

Originally posted by Anti-DieselKitty
Ooohh...that's a good comparison. Good also, because the little person from Twin Peaks is also in Carnivale. (Are they little people now? Or should I just say midget?)


i believe they perfer 'ottoman.' :shrug:

the conjoined twins used to be in Cirque de Soleil. good thing for them that their unfortunate start in life is paying off now.

i'm confident that management exists. i'm assuming it has something to do with faith and all that crap.

that scene in the burned out church when the kids appear and shrink back into the darkness.... F'n creepy!!!!

[Milkman John]

i fuckin love it.i can't wait to see if this is some sort of redemption type of thing,or shit, i dunno....it has me guessing alot. last nights episode had me twitching at the end. seriously creepy....especially samsons facial expression....i think they need to expand on brother justins loss of faith though....seriously beginning to thin out in the plot .......

[Milkman John]

Originally posted by BrianArsenault



i believe they perfer 'ottoman.' :shrug:



i heard they preferred "overgrown shot-put"

[Stryda!]

I saw it once. I just dont know when it is on so I havent been able to follow it.

[Milkman John]

i think this tuesday they are having a marathon starting at 2pm

i dunno,check tvguide.com

[Anti-DieselKitty]

It's on Sunday at 9pm Chad.... And I saw that about the reruns...:yes:

[Stryda!]

tuesday at 2pm is no good for me. No tivo and no way Im using the vcr. :D

[Anti-DieselKitty]

I think it's on a Saturday... just check the HBO site.

[Milkman John]

oops,sunday, my brain is fried from staring at a computer all friggin day

sunday

enjoy, and do tape them, definately worth a second look

[Stryda!]

I NEED TIVO! anyone else have it?

[Milkman John]

i do,and i have all but 1 episode recorded,plus a bunch of family guy, the "blues" series that was on PBS, the animatrix, and last tango in paris....

yeah, we watch some random shit.....

[BrianArsenault]

I think the new evil brother justin needs a goatee :yes:

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Have you been watching Super Secret TV Formulas?

Oh and I just noticed that the actor that plays Brother Justin was also that prison guard from Shawshank Redemption.

[elad]

Originally posted by BrianArsenault
I think the new evil brother justin needs a goatee :yes:

:haha: x 1000

the show was turned into a carnie sexathon :specialed:

theres only 2 more episodes, i bet nothin is gonna be fully explained and at the end we'll be like :wtf:

is there a 2nd season ? :shrug:

[Nos]

Libby and Sophie are gonna dyke it out in the next episode.

[elad]

:werd: that is long overdue

next in schedule is samson :siihp:in the fetus ina jar (aka management)

[Moebius]

That is overdue.

[DRG420]

If you havent seen Bully staring the main character from carnivale
It is a great masterpiece of filmwork. Its from the director of kids Larry Clark who is the shit. Its a true story its twisted but life is twisted. Go see it for anyone who loves real movies

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Bwahaha...I've seen Bully! I didn't realize that was the same guy, but you're right.

And :werd: on the Libby & Sophie thing, I have thought they were going to hook up on multiple occasions.

[Article One]

i missed it last night, dammit.

[RedHedGurl]

such a gooooooooood show! It really keeps twisting as far as who's good and who's bad. I love it personally. That kid who plays Ben really is a good actor...I saw him in Bully as well, what a jackass he was in that!

[JOEYd]

I've got the whole series recorded, yes, this show rocks, Twin Peaks meets Tombstone but on HBO so they can show teh boobies:raveon:

good stuff

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Apparently it is sucking in the ratings department. I don't get it...nearly everyone I know watches it. I hope they put on another season, I will be so pissed if they end up cancelling it.

[RedHedGurl]

oh really? I didn't know it was doing badly. I guess some people just don't understand it. It takes a minute to get into but once you do it's a reeeally good show. The last episode was a full on sexfest...I was like wtf.

[elad]

the term is carnie sexathon©. kthx.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Who knew carnies had so much sex? Not I.

[RedHedGurl]

oh yes, my bad...carnie sexathon is right. That chick and Jonesy need to stop with the fuckin' already! Jonesy needs to settle down with the OTHER chick whos name escapes me right now.

[Moebius]

I was waiting for sofie to start showing that she was the daughter of scutter.


I wonder if her and ben are going to hook up.

That would be freaky.





carnie freaky.

[RedHedGurl]

OH and what about Ben with the snake lady!?!! He's too cute for that hag!

[Anti-DieselKitty]

I was just talking about this with my sister.... Scutter is the guy with the tattoo right? I know that was him in the mine, but he's also the one with the tattoo...yes?

[Moebius]

YES!.

he is also the guy in the field. Did you see the rug on the wall in the order of the freak guys that play gin rummy.

He was on that too.

[MaryAnarchy]

i like this show. i've only seen two episodes but i really liked what i saw.

dark. nice.

[MaryAnarchy]

awww i felt bad when he ran out on teh snake lady

[elad]

jonesy is a playa... or just very horny with that stiff.. leg 24/7 :shrug:

[MaryAnarchy]

hahahh! although that blond chick has nice hair, he needs to realize she's a hooker.

[elad]

shes not a hooker, she dances the cooch.

[MaryAnarchy]

HOOKER!

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Originally posted by Moebius
YES!.

he is also the guy in the field. Did you see the rug on the wall in the order of the freak guys that play gin rummy.

He was on that too.

Yeah, that's what I thought! Erin said that was Management.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Originally posted by elad
shes not a hooker, she dances the cooch.

She's definitely both.

What is up with Libby and her Dad? They are a little too close in a creepy way.


And did anyone else almost die when the blind guy was hooking up with the bearded lady a few weeks back?

[MaryAnarchy]

HAHAH that was funny as hell.

then he was all "get away and make me a sammich" esque.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

She's so weird anyhow, I mean... That time he beat her with his cane, I was so pissed. He's fucking blind, I would've kicked his ass. It's not like he'd see you coming.

[MaryAnarchy]

actually it's hard to sneak up on a blind person because their sense of hearing is so well tuned.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

:haha: Have you tried it?

[MaryAnarchy]

HAHAH no, i would never attack a blind person. ;)
but i think it would be true..

i read it somewhere

might have been a book.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Well regardless, I was very happy when he got pushed out of the trailer last night. :yes:

[MaryAnarchy]

i missed last night's. i don't have HBO so i only catch it when i'm at someone's house who does :( :(

is there anywhere they recap the episodes that you missed online?

[Anti-DieselKitty]

Yeah, there are episode guides... www.hbo.com

[MaryAnarchy]

word, thanks. i'll go read that. it will fill up my laSt 5 minutes of boredom at work.

[MaryAnarchy]

the first season of six feet undre didn't do too well did it?
it's the only one i watched.

[elad]

all but one episodes should be on on-demand.

[BrianArsenault]

Originally posted by elad

theres only 2 more episodes, i bet nothin is gonna be fully explained and at the end we'll be like :wtf:

is there a 2nd season ? :shrug:

according to the chatter on carnivale.org (http://www.carnivale.org) the show's producers & writers had planned for 3 seasons. whether or not this is true i'm not entirely sure, but it makes sense. i can't see them wrapping the show up over 2 more episodes. i'm sure the last episode will end on some huge cliff hanger, like ben about to open a door with scudder on the other side, and then the credits say "see you next season, tool!"

eh? :shrug:

[BrianArsenault]

Originally posted by Anti-DieselKitty
Who knew carnies had so much sex? Not I.

carnies of the future man. survival of the species. :yes:

[Muffysadj]

Seriously, I think that this show suffers from being sandwiched in between the Sopranos and "K Street." It's like sticking an experimental track in between a dark DnB track and a progressive trance track.

My friend who's a Harvard-educated attorney (& who is cool, because I made friends w/him at Buzz!) swears by it, though.

[Muffysadj]

Originally posted by BrianArsenault


according to the chatter on carnivale.org (http://www.carnivale.org) the show's producers & writers had planned for 3 seasons. whether or not this is true i'm not entirely sure, but it makes sense. i can't see them wrapping the show up over 2 more episodes. i'm sure the last episode will end on some huge cliff hanger, like ben about to open a door with scudder on the other side, and then the credits say "see you next season, tool!"

eh? :shrug:

LOL! Go Arse, go! One of the reasons I quit TV for awhile is because I got hooked on several shows to the exclusion of everything else. But I doth complain too much because now I am hooked on the Sopranos and Twenty Four.

I think that the dude who's the Pres. in 24 is a hottie studmuffin, but that's a tangent.

[MaryAnarchy]

hey! hi muffy! i think i knew you on dcraves :)

:wave:

[Anti-DieselKitty]

I just read Dora Mae is Meatloaf's daughter! :delirious:

[MaryAnarchy]

i would do anything for love




buti won't do that