So much creepy.

Pretty much. You see him stumbling drunk, and then the next scene of him, he's in the mine.

It is a weird experience to read. (Disclaimer: The only other Leonard I've read are Pronto and Riding the Rap which I bought after I started watching Justified.) The cliche might be "The book is better!" but I do think that the show did these stories better.

The side conversation that Rachel and Raylan have while talking to Limehouse is in the book. The one about how pretty Ole Miss girls are (which I maintain was an odd conversation and felt out of place, both in the book and the show).

Wholeheartedly agree. I've gotten annoyed with some fantasy books that tried to explain things that didn't need to be explained. (Off the top of my head, I remember reading the first of the Hollows books by Kim Harrison, and there was this part talking about how enzymes in the witches' blood activated the spell. And I…

If you're a weirdo, then I am, too, because I don't theorize either as I'm watching/reading. I like having the story unfold at its own pace and then thinking back on it after I'm done. As I was watching Carnivale the first time around, I used to go online and read all the speculation, and so little of it turned out to…

I hope it's the shot of the miners walking into Carnivale at night. Their dead expressions and the horror on Samson's face… Gah.

I was 11 when I Home aired. I remember being at a friend's place watching it with a bunch of guys who were a couple of years older than me. It might've been the first X-Files episode I ever watched. Sixteen years later, and it still freaks me out.

Seriously. Took me forever to get through Deadwood and The Wire via Netflix.

Pruitt Taylor Vince was in the episode "Unruhe," which I don't remember at all. Glen Morgan and James Wong wrote the inbred hillbilly episode, and that one is seared into my brain.

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I pronounce it "Car-ni-vall" to almost rhyme with "mall." I think I picked that up from the HBO promotion spots. Maybe. I've never heard it pronounced by Knauf and Co. so I'm probably wrong.

I've lurked on AV Club for ages without registering, but I'm going to help this comment section, too. Seeing Todd's recaps inspired me to rewatch, and I ended doing the whole first season within a week. It surprised me how much I remembered.