Carnivale...argh
May. 23rd, 2007 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonWell, last night the collected adult population of Casa Chaos gathered together and watched the final two episodes of season 2 (the final season before the show was cancelled) of Carnivale.
Three things:
1. By the gods, that's some incredibly, damnably good storytelling -- simply wonderful, in that dreadfully compelling, "oh I can't stand to watch and see this get worse and worse and I know it's just not going to go well but I can't stop now because I have to see what happens next" kind of way. Those bastards.
2. Cudos to HBO for having the incredible guts to film and air two full seasons of a show which is in so many ways a complete antithesis of normal broadcast TV fare, and so far out on the edge. And big huge wet raspberries to HBO for cancelling the show and leaving us with an eternal cliff-hanger of monumental proportions. Those bastards.
3. For an angst-antidote, we will all be having a Casa pizza night tonight and watching "Cars" with my beamish boy, and then on Friday the adults will descend on the cinema-drafthouse to see the next Pirates movie. After the last one, I don't expect much in the way of storytelling, but it will almost certainly be frothy, CGI-laden fun, and there is the eye-candy value.
Three things:
1. By the gods, that's some incredibly, damnably good storytelling -- simply wonderful, in that dreadfully compelling, "oh I can't stand to watch and see this get worse and worse and I know it's just not going to go well but I can't stop now because I have to see what happens next" kind of way. Those bastards.
2. Cudos to HBO for having the incredible guts to film and air two full seasons of a show which is in so many ways a complete antithesis of normal broadcast TV fare, and so far out on the edge. And big huge wet raspberries to HBO for cancelling the show and leaving us with an eternal cliff-hanger of monumental proportions. Those bastards.
3. For an angst-antidote, we will all be having a Casa pizza night tonight and watching "Cars" with my beamish boy, and then on Friday the adults will descend on the cinema-drafthouse to see the next Pirates movie. After the last one, I don't expect much in the way of storytelling, but it will almost certainly be frothy, CGI-laden fun, and there is the eye-candy value.
