(Season 2, Episodes 4-5)
Sofie has had a very interesting year since her mother died at the end of the first season of Carnivale. In this block of episodes there was a big focus on her. First she was put through the ringer at the carnival, showing up the rest of the crew and proving her worth by digging out the latrine all day and all night long, all by herself. Then in the second episode she finally went back to reading the cards for Ben, and discovered that perhaps she had more power than she thought, as a vision of her mother informed her that she was always the one who could read the cards.
With her continued visions — including some now involving an explosion in the desert — I have to believe that Sofie is somehow connected to the Justin/Ben story. I’m not sure exactly how, but I’m very curious to find out.
“Old Blossom Cherry Road”
In my previous entry I commented on the creepiness of hillbillies. I think the only thing more terrifying than being kidnapped (and almost buried alive) by hillbillies is finding out that those same hillbillies are actually your relatives. That’s just shudder-worthy. I’m glad Ben didn’t spend too much time with his murdering, eye-gauging grandmother, but I am eagerly waiting to see when the knife she gave him will pop up again.
Meanwhile, Brother Justin had his own problems, and I’m curious to see how things are going to play out with Iris. Now that Tommy has seen her burning clothes in the desert, he must be certain that she was the one who burned down the church and killed the children. Will Justin sacrifice Iris for the cause, even though she insists that she will not be a sacrifice? I’m curious to see if he is cruel enough to do away with his sister.
“Creed, OK”
One of the side stories that I have really been enjoying this season is Ruthie and the “side effects” that she is experiencing after being brought back from the dead by Ben. She has been having visions of the dead, including Lodz and Apollonia, and it’s driving her a little batty.
Man, does this show do creepy well! This episode featured a little-too-friendly-to-believe old man who makes death masks (including Henry Scudder’s). This led to a horrid encounter between him and Ben, with the man paralyzing Ben and making a mask of the young man’s face. Ben didn’t remember anything about it, believing it to be a nasty vision, but at the end of the episode we saw that Justin had Ben’s mask. When he looked through it, he could see what Ben was seeing. I thought that this was going to be the start of something big, but Justin freaked out when he saw Ben’s face in a mirror and broke the mask.
It looks like Justin is going to sell out Iris after all. In this episode he confronted her, and although she didn’t make it easy for him, she did sign a confession.
Clacked by Bob Degon
on Dec 02, 2009 @ 14:00 EST5EDT
