“Carnivàle” is an American television series that originally aired on HBO from 2003 to 2005. The show was created by Daniel Knauf and is set during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era of the 1930s. It blends elements of dark fantasy, supernatural, and historical drama.
The series revolves around two main characters:
- Ben Hawkins, played by Nick Stahl: Ben is a young man with mysterious supernatural abilities, including healing powers and prophetic dreams. He joins a traveling carnival called “Carnivàle” after the death of his mother and becomes a key figure in a cosmic battle between good and evil.
- Brother Justin Crowe, played by Clancy Brown: Brother Justin is a charismatic and morally conflicted preacher who is experiencing his own supernatural visions and abilities. He believes he is a prophet of God and becomes a prominent figure in the religious community.
Carnivàle Quotes
1- Samson: Let’s shake some dust!
2- Management: You must act as a man, not a boy. A boy mends the broken bones of his playmates, and resurrects little kittens for his own amusement. This is different, this is a woman’s life. A human life. To restore it you must take life… with deliberation. You must choose the life you take – that is the way of our kind.
3- Brother Justin: Latter day versions of the vile plagues that rained on Egypt, the fires that consumed Soddom and Gomorrah. Scourges of the old testament, yes, but even now, brothers and sisters, even now drought and pestilance fester in the very heart of this great land. Titanic sandstorms, the likes of which man has not seen since the days of the prophets… And I ask myself, “What are these things? What are they, if not evidence of God’s fury? What are they, if not harbingers of the apocalypse?” And yet… and yet, as I walked to church today, these troubled thoughts were soothed by a balmy wind. And as I looked out upon the endless acres of rich, untilled earth, I realised, brothers and sisters, that this is truly the promised land and that we are indeed blessed. But let us not forget the less fortunate. Let us not forget that they too were once blessed. And let us not forget that the lord giveth, and the lord taketh away. Amen.
4- Samson: Before the beginning, after the great war between Heaven and Hell, God created the Earth and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called Man. And to each generation was born a creature of light and a creature of darkness. And great armies clashed by night in the ancient war between good and evil. There was magic then, nobility, and unimaginable cruelty. And so it was until the day that a false sun exploded over Trinity, and man forever traded away wonder for reason.
