Carnivàle (TV Series 2003–2005) Poster

(2003–2005)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Full frontal and rear female nudity throught no male full frontal.
  • Sex: a few graphic imitations of sexual intercourse. Open discussions of sexuality, including occasional sexual profanity.
  • Incest: a man (a priest) passionately kisses his sister on the mouth. Later in the second season, he kisses his own daughter on the mouth.
  • Rape: brief scenes of a woman being raped (in visions).
  • In one episode a man instructs his mentally disabled, severely underage daughter to lift her skirts to a stranger man, which she does (not shown, obviously). He then offers her to the man as a prostitute, claiming that "she won't complain" and "she's tight". The other man refuses and he's infuriated by the idea.

Violence & Gore

  • Occasional, moderate to extreme violence, mostly realistic.
  • A man rips out another man's internal organs. Somewhat stylized and unrealistic but still gory.
  • A priest beheads another man with a sickle. Not shown directly but the severed head is seen in two scenes.
  • A man is being buried alive. They dig him up before he dies.
  • It is implied that a woman has murdered her entire family and afterwards she cut out her own eyes.
  • A woman sets a caravan on fire in an attempt to kill her daughter and herself. The mother's remains are shown afterwards.
  • It is implied that a woman has set an orphanage on fire, killing children. Bodies not shown but discussed in detail afterwards.
  • Three snakes get killed in an episode, two of them thrown in a fire alive, the third beaten to death.

Profanity

  • Moderate language throughout the series, including occasional, mild religious exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The protagonist is shown smoking cigarettes.
  • Other people are shown smoking and drinking. Instances of drunkness shown. One of the characters is a heavy alcoholic.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Many women are raped or almost raped in this show. It is usually not graphic.
  • The 'supernatural' elements may seem very bizarre and nightmarish as the rest of the show is quite realistic.
  • The show is overall dark, frightening, suspenseful and intense.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A man gets tortured to death by his entire body being gradually covered with boiling hot tar. Graphic. (Although later in the episode he makes a full recovery through 'supernatural' intervention.)
  • The protagonist strangles a man to death to revive a woman that man has killed. He later kills another man to protect his father.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman is raped and murdered (this part is not shown) and her spirit/undead body ends up trapped in a town full of only men (also undead) who tried to gang rape her when she was alive.

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