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Published on Sunday, March 6, 2005 - 8:56pm |
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HBO
I do hope “Deadwood” crushes the life out of ABC’s infuriatingly bland “Desperate Housewives,” but somehow I don’t think that’s going to happen.
My only wish for “Deadwood” this season is that it manages to work in the word “cocksucker” a little more often. I seriously doubt the real residents of Deadwood managed the kind of linguistic restraint demonstrated last season.
… TV's grittiest and, arguably, most fascinating Western. … As it starts a second season of 12 episodes, Deadwood remains a place so dangerous and yet so rife with possibilities that neither the characters nor the viewers can let down their guard for even an instant. …
… stands as one of HBO's most fully realized dramas since "The Sopranos" and exhibits no signs of fading in the second leg of its run. … Season two begins on an engrossing note, centering on a conflict between the show's twin titans, Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant), the taciturn former sheriff thrust again into that role; and Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), the amoral saloonkeeper, who this year delivers a second speech while receiving oral sex, which must be some kind of TV record. …
… As if to celebrate their newfound identity, the writers have provided a traditional, roiling showdown in the season premiere. (But first, viewers must get past the mystifying first 10 minutes, filled with dense discussions of government appointments and gold rights, as uncompelling as those trade-route taxation debates in The Phantom Menace.) … The violence — real and imagined — makes the instances of grace so poignant they're almost painful. …
9 p.m. Sunday. HBO.

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Reader Talkback
Glad its back! by santos kauffman | Mar 6th, 2005 08:07:05 PM | The Best Thing Ever Put
Film!!!!! by The Outlander | Mar 6th, 2005 08:36:54 PM | Correction Outlander by williammunny | Mar 6th, 2005 08:55:58 PM | One of the best hours of TV
Ive ever watched by MonkeyGod464 | Mar 6th, 2005 10:01:19 PM | Swearingen is God by docfalken | Mar 6th, 2005 10:07:01 PM | Deadwood was awesome... by BurlIvesLeftNut | Mar 6th, 2005 10:57:08 PM | oh and... by BurlIvesLeftNut | Mar 6th, 2005 10:58:35 PM | Where the hell is the
"Arrested Development"
Talkback? by DanielKurland | Mar 6th, 2005 10:59:11 PM | Welcome to Deadwood by zer0cool2k2 | Mar 6th, 2005 11:08:29 PM | Yup, more humor! by delwin | Mar 6th, 2005 11:39:12 PM | Calamity Jane is God *SPOILERS
AHEAD* by ChickenGeorgeVII | Mar 6th, 2005 11:51:48 PM | also.... by ChickenGeorgeVII | Mar 6th, 2005 11:54:38 PM | Al vs. Bullock by ripper t. jones | Mar 6th, 2005 11:58:34 PM | I'm including spoiler-talk
here, ya hoopleheads. by StigMata | Mar 7th, 2005 12:07:12 AM | Holy Friggin Crap by Dmann | Mar 7th, 2005 01:23:56 AM | Carnivale torrent anyone? by TraitorZaarin | Mar 7th, 2005 01:28:55 AM | Why Al and Bullock were
fighting by dwam0 | Mar 7th, 2005 09:08:17 AM | The Borg Queen in Deadwood by Mr_Furious | Mar 7th, 2005 09:26:27 AM | The Real Al Swearengen and
Bullock by GEORGEFNLUCAS | Mar 7th, 2005 11:13:31 AM | hbo by ZO | Mar 7th, 2005 11:51:08 AM | http://www.blackhillsvisitor.c
om/main.asp?id=14&cat_id=30244 by Toe Jam | Mar 7th, 2005 01:52:55 PM | another interesting fact by Toe Jam | Mar 7th, 2005 01:55:27 PM | Looks like Ben has his arc
angel by Whedon | Mar 7th, 2005 03:28:58 PM | What is the Appeal of Deadwood by Drath | Mar 7th, 2005 05:12:13 PM | Deadwood's appeal by zer0cool2k2 | Mar 7th, 2005 05:53:20 PM | Nothing's worse than kidney
stones, zer0cool2K2 by mortsleam | Mar 7th, 2005 06:09:42 PM | ChickenGeorge by Mister Man | Mar 7th, 2005 06:19:07 PM | Mortsleam & the Stones by zer0cool2k2 | Mar 7th, 2005 06:43:43 PM | re: drath by Toe Jam | Mar 7th, 2005 07:36:25 PM | Drath by Mockingbird Girl | Mar 7th, 2005 10:51:21 PM | Toe Jam by Drath | Mar 9th, 2005 08:53:20 AM | Deadwood's Appeal by GEORGEFNLUCAS | Mar 9th, 2005 02:33:20 PM |
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