carny

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Director “Baz Luhrmann wanted the carny world to provide an enticing location for Parker to cast his spell.”

From Los Angeles Times

The show’s creative team and voice cast deliver what amounts to a typically unpredictable quadruple-length episode, involving a financial catastrophe, a carny murder and multiple catchy musical numbers.

From Los Angeles Times

“I’ll cop to being a little less elegant than maybe I have been in the past. But I’d say that the world is, every year, less elegant. It’s the same as everybody: I’m exhausted and frustrated and scared, but I’m just thankful I have a job where I can write about it. It’s good, therapeutically. In my own dumb, carny way, I can do something about it.”

From Los Angeles Times

The story begins with the deliberately dull — Bob’s efforts to get an extension on a loan payment from a humorless bank employee — before quickly segueing to the deliciously bizarre: a six-year-old, unsolved murder case, which comes to light only when a cavernous sinkhole opens in the road in front of Bob’s establishment, offering up not only the skeletal remains of a boardwalk carny, but an opportunity for Bob’s three school-age children to investigate his demise, at risk of their own lives.

From Washington Post

Did the old carny barker play out a shattering real-life version of “Nightmare Alley,” his favorite movie, where he turned the most successful solo recording artist of all time into the geek?

From New York Times