Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.

A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.

Snow White’s mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan’s representatives, granting him three wishes.

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.