A brilliant TV series on HBO, Carnivale, starred many top actors including Nick Stahl and Michael Anderson. The series focused around a group of carnival workers discovering various places throughout the American Dustbowl carnival circuit. Throughout the way, the crew is in dispute with morality and the good and the bad.
While you may be wondering how this related to absinthe, it does. One character on the show, Professor Ernst Lodz became heavily obsessed with absinthe after various visits to Paris, France. Throughout the TV series, he is regularly drinking absinthe to keep his craving filled.
This just goes to show you how well known absinthe is and how so many people really enjoy it. Since movies and TV shows contain characters drinking absinthe in it, there is a reason behind it. That reason is because absinthe is a drink which leads people to have a terrific and it can be portrayed on the big screen. This is just one of many examples of which a character in a TV series or movie regularly enjoyed drinking a bottle of absinthe.
In Carnivale, the professor is one of the top characters and almost every episode includes him satisfying his thirst for the exquisite hard liquor he enjoyed from the homeland he originally discovered it in – France. While the TV show does not depict the professor being addicted to the drink, it does show that many people are inspired and enhanced while under the influence of absinthe. The fact that absinthe has been seen on the big screen so often shows that it is definitely still a popular drink even after the banning issues across the world almost a century ago. |
