Carnivale

Another amazing television show, which Bennett and Merrie told me to see: Carnivale. A shame it ran for only two years before cancellation (but no wonder, either, it was so expensive and elaborate).

There's a great deal to say about it, of course – a Gnostic battle of good and evil, brilliant characterization and complex storytelling and deep, intense mystery –

but tonight I am especially seeing some of the startlingly beautiful pictures: this won all sorts of visual/artistic awards, and is one of the most visually conceived of complex television shows.

For example: when Libby is left behind by her suddenly cured husband and the healer, they have the nerve, the daring, to simply leave her in the center of a darkened road as they pull away, and the camera slows –

very beautiful.