Top billed cast

1. 

   Nick Stahl

   Ben Hawkins

2. 

   Clancy Brown

   Brother Justin

3. 

   Michael J. Anderson

   Samson

4. 

   Tim DeKay

   Clayton Jones

5. 

   Clea DuVall

   Sofie

6. 

   Cynthia Ettinger

   Rita Sue Dreifuss

7. 

   Carla Gallo

   Libby Dreifuss

8. 

   Adrienne Barbeau

   Ruthie

9. 

   Amy Madigan

   Iris Crowe

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Current Season

Season 2

2005 | 12 Episodes

Reviews

A review by tsdenizen

Written by tsdenizen on 2023-08-26

This show was insanely cool and had the potential to be one of HBO's best ever shows. Seriously, I'd take these two seasons over just about anything the premium channel has put out. There's a level of creativity and thoughtfulness that is near unheard of in TV. Unfortunately, these seasons amount to god-tier set-up for shit-hits-the-fan moments that we never got to see. As soon as we were going to get some big pay-offs, Carnivàle was cancelled. Nobody watched it: it was too slow, too smart, too weird for its time. This is one of the biggest creative what-ifs ever in my opinion. I still love t...read the rest

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7. Monsterland65%
8. Penny Dreadful78%
9. Lost Girl77%
10. Carnival Row76%
11. The Originals85%
12. The Sandman78%
13. Tales from the Loop70%
14. Freddy's Nightmares71%
15. Superstition59%
16. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities74%
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18. American Gods70%
19. Travelers75%
20. It69%

Status
Canceled

Original Language
English

Original Name
Carnivàle

Keywords

• tarot cards
• carnival
• chosen one
• striptease
• great depression
• surrealism
• evil preacher
• period drama
• traveling circus
• carny
• dust bowl
• reverend
• circus freak
• dark fantasy
• dark secret
• freak show
• 1930s
• supernatural power
• thought reading
• demonic entity
• good vs evil