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Jan. 13th, 2005 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progA new season of Carnivale! I wasn't expecting this; I don't follow entertainment news (beyond the really obvious stuff that trickles down to me), so I had no reason not to believe that the end of the first season (months and months ago) was the (disappointing) end of the whole series (having taken similar lumps from Twin Peaks long ago)... but I never bothered removing it from my TiVo's record-on-sight list, so this is a nice surprise.
The show is as good as I remember it, with gorgeous visuals and a gripping modern-fantasy (well, 1930s-fantasy) story, and with a tasty new plot twist right out of the gate. It also continues to be an example of a TV show that correctly uses HBO's looser content regulations for narrative effect, rather than titillation; it may have more sex & gore & naughty words than a network TV show, but not any more than any of the SF novels on the bookshelf beside me, and deployed for the same reasons. (Well, the same reasons as the better novels, anyway.)
The show is as good as I remember it, with gorgeous visuals and a gripping modern-fantasy (well, 1930s-fantasy) story, and with a tasty new plot twist right out of the gate. It also continues to be an example of a TV show that correctly uses HBO's looser content regulations for narrative effect, rather than titillation; it may have more sex & gore & naughty words than a network TV show, but not any more than any of the SF novels on the bookshelf beside me, and deployed for the same reasons. (Well, the same reasons as the better novels, anyway.)