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HBO's First New DEADWOOD since May 2005!!
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When we last left “Deadwood,” Al Swearengen had just met George Hearst, Alma Garret had just married Mr. Ellsworth, Mayor E.B. Farnum had just sold his hotel, Cy Tolliver had brandished a letter, Wolcott swang from rope, and Calamity wore a dress.
Variety says:
… After a slow-going premiere, series kicks into another gear in the next four episodes previewed, mixing brutality, scheming and the sheer poetry of David Milch's nothing-else-quite-like-it dialogue. With HBO's Western melodrama now fated to become a morsel for Wu's carnivorous pigs after a pair of wrap-up movies, it's destined to go out in style.… Seldom has any series been this densely layered, sometimes to its detriment. It's that level of storytelling, more than the colorfully coarse language, which sets the show apart -- though there's also a fight in a later episode so grisly anyone remotely squeamish will likely be fumbling for the remote. …
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… The third season, as much as the two preceding ones, continues to breathe new life and vigor into the Western genre. What's more, the actors have become so comfortable in the skins of their characters, we can now appreciate the complexity of their personalities and desires. Heaven help us, but there are aspects of even Swearengen's henchmen that are becoming heroic. …
TV Guide says:
… n 1870s Deadwood, violent actions may speak louder than words, but it's the words (courtesy of creator David Milch) you remember: a dazzling, baffling barrage of flamboyant language, elegant in its wit yet profane in its bile. … The circuitous plot is challenging, but the true glory of Deadwood is in its vivid creation of a volatile world where scoundrels, wretches and tormented heroes coexist in an unvarnished time capsule of Wild West history. …
The New York Times says:
… The series' end is near; its creator, David Milch, has reached an agreement with HBO to bring "Deadwood" to a close with a four-hour, two-part finale. As it lurches to its conclusion, the politics of "Deadwood" keep growing more dense and colorful, and that magnificent obsession crowds out other primal forces. Death is still common in "Deadwood." It is sex that has taken a holiday.…
The Chicago Tribune says:
… Once you look beneath the show's incredibly realistic sets, its pitch-perfect costumes and its simply phenomenal cast, you find that "Deadwood" is not just about the birth of politics and civilization in a remote, lawless place, but about diversity. Not the corporate-seminar brand of bland diversity that "The Office" cleverly mocked in a first-season episode; "Deadwood" is too smart for that. …
The Los Angeles Times says:
… the beginning of "Deadwood's" third season crackles as ever with sudden violence, slow death-by-drinking and gradual suffering. The dialogue is "Deadwood's" calling card, with its mixture of gutter and Elizabethan grace. It layers Milch's broader, working theme — the coming-together of various organisms to create a single, functioning one. …
9 p.m. Sunday. HBO.
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I mean... first!
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Let's just leave it all alone. I am at my stupidest when I try to be funny...and I'd love to give Molly Parker a pedicure.
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This season of Deadwood might be a good download. It's a shame HBO scares off actual subscribers by cancelling all their best shows a season short.
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The simple life gets another season and Deadwood gets cancelled. . . . .Looking forward to 'Joe from Cincinatti.'
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Yah Wu - Cocksucker. HBO is the cocksucker for cancelling one of my favorite shows.
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Sounds like I won't be able to understand anybody this year either.
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One thing I've always admired about English TV is that the shows end. They go out on top and never get stale and tired (Sopranos anyone?). Sometimes an ending is not the worst thing that can happen ot a show. If Deadwood makes this a great season leading up to the final two two-hour movies and goes out in style, I will be happy.
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cocksuckers.
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Hug it out, cocksuckers!!
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By "English TV" do you mean American TV? Because sure, some shows do go out on top, but the majority go on for far too long (Friends, and some would even argue that the Sopranos has). Sure, this doesn't happen as often with HBO, as the seasons are shorter and such, but I definitely think more shows end with a wimper than with a bang. Now if by "English TV" you meant British TV, then I'd probably agree with you, as they have even shorter seasons, and tend to not go on for TOO long.
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This series is better than anything before or since. Its just so incredible. This is what a western should always be. Great great stuff. Now, HBO, do 'The Dark Tower' or at least 'The Talisman' and its great sequel, 'Dark House'.
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Show me a better show on any network with a better cast. Show me an actor who can turn the most profane dialogue this side of a dockers bar and make it sound like poetry like Ian Mcshane. Love this show (loved Carnivale as well and look what happened to that)
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Joe from Cincinatti aslo, almost as much as I'm looking forward to putting my balls in a vice. HBO, better be glad me and Brock are going out for some Saturday Night Beaver right now, or we'd come over to HBO's house and show them why they shouldn't cancel Deadwood.
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Deadwood is back! It is a shame they are killing it off too early though, IMHO.
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http://savedeadwood.tv/contact_hbo.htm
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Priceless.
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I'll say what I always say (usually on a board for fuckin Sopranos, which is already a distant memory), Deadwood is the best show on t.v. and this premiere, while not earth-quaking, was a perfect table setter for what I'm sure is another fantastic season. Could've used more Cy, who was my fav character last season, but I quite liked McRaney's Hearst, who's certainly going to be a most troublesome cocksucker, an heir to the throne of biggest pain in Al Swearengin's balls.
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"Everyday takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live." - Jane.
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"Custer was a cunt. The end."
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"I will profane your fucking remains."
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Al to EB
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That made me laugh pretty good.
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Brilliant. I will profane your fucking remains. Brilliant Thank god for DVR so I can watch it over and over again.
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Um...not so much. Entertaining, yes. But even Milch will admit when pressed that his research into the time period revealed people did not use the words he uses and abuses on this show in the ways he has them used. He's taken quite a bit of dramatic license, so let's not try to pass off an admittedly entertaining spectacle as some sort of genuine educational experience. Unless, of course, you're trying to use student loan money to pay your cable bill.
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your sanctimonious sermons. Who here is saying 'Deadwood' is an official court transcript of actual happenings? It's a great drama.
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You are reading way too much into a great TV Guide review.
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Well worth the wait. Man I love this show....
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Unlike Carnivale, which left me feeling completely ripped off after wasting 13 aggregate hours watching the first season (yeah I'm still mad). Ian McShane is the greatest actor on television.
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I'd hate to be sitting next to you when Supes opens in two weeks. Roland: "You know, they used wires and green screens to create the illusion of...blah blah blah." I bet you're a hoot at Christmas around department store Santas.
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Y'know there are always points of research or historical accuracy that are off. It takes nothing away from the overall integrity for my money. I read an historical novel called DEADWOOD by Pete Dexter which utilizes many of the same characters. They are drawn differently though, like Al is buggering young boys and Bullock is considerably older and less moral. Who knows? It's mighty fine entertainment! Oh yeah the existence of 'bacon and eggs' as ordered by Al, while certainly a theoretical option, wasn't really a common menu choice until the early 20th century. I am not saying that you couldn't have eaten them together, or that they were never eaten together-just that it wasn't a common association. I'll let them slide.
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in the 1800's. I tried one not long ago. Delicious. As for Deadwood, just why is it so great? Week after week, it's the same old schtick. Bullock freaks out, Swearengen Swears, Calamity Jane get's shitfaced and the rest of the woman look constipated. It's like watching a hobo convention.
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great acting, sets, costumes, dialog, intricate plot. It's funny, sick, sad.
Why is peanut butter and jelly good? Salty and sweet in balance. Yin and Yan like the fuckin celestials do...
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whatever
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so intricate nothing seems to be happening.
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Tell your God to ready for blood
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...Mel J. Maybe you should read the article before responding to my response to it next time and YOU won't come off sounding quite so sanctimonious. Isn't learning fun?
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...I actually have nothing against the fat man in the mall around December. He's got to earn a buck and kids believing in Santa doesn't really contribute to the net dumbing down of America any more than the massive Christian population believing what they do. Neither does watching Deadwood. But when asshats like that TV Guide writer start trying to pass off a show like Deadwood as some sort of immersive American history lesson, it's time to call them on the carpet. That reviewer is no better than the dumbass I sat near on a flight to Italy two years ago, who was so looking forward to the trip because he loves the Sopranos. He kept telling his wife or girlfriend (or whomever that unfortunate and bored-looking chick in the seat next to him was) that the show was the most accurate depiction of Italian-American life he'd ever seen "because he knows some dagos and they all talk like that." All of this in his Fargo-esque midwestern accent. I don't know what was more irritating, his ignorance or the fact that he obviously had enough money left over after paying his cable bill and buying his season NASCAR pass or whatever it is he truly enjoys in life to afford a trip to Italy (which I suspect was the lady's idea to begin with). He was like an international billboard advertising the fact that stupidity is often rewarded in my country. He wasn't on the flight back, though. I can only hope that was because one of the locals killed his loud, ignorant ass for doing something unforgivably dumb.
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...but it's beautiful to listen to. I know they didn't curse the way they do, and I was recently heartbroken to find out that the term "hooplehead" didn't likely exist in that time, but the show is all about the dialogue. I'll very much miss it. Too bad those cocksucking hoopleheads at HBO had to profain it's remains.
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You are correct, of course. I was just being bitchy last night. No hard feelings. Also, I'd hate to be stuck next to some NASCAR butthole for 12 hours. You're a stronger man than I.
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The beautiful thing about Deadwood is that it made me and others I know actually go read up on the real town. There are better sources (like actual books), but check out Wikipedia's articles on Deadwood and its denizens. The show is basically accurate in terms of how the town was formed and developed, but the characters are innaccurate in many ways for purposes of drama. For example, Bullock's wife wasn't married to his brother first, and their first child was a girl who also never had the accident. Check it out, the real history is a good read.
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I only ever enjoyed Star Wars because it was so historically accurate. And One Million Years BC. And Jason and the Argonauts. However, Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a terrible recreation of the 80s.
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...quite looking forward to checking out Wikipedia's entry. Thanks for that.
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And to clarify for all the other people telling me to lighten up and enjoy, I'm by no means an accuracy Nazi when it comes to my historical fiction. I'm completely able to enjoy fantasy on just about every level, and that includes Deadwood. What I can't abide is people who can't distinguish between fantasy and reality, particularly when those people have a forum in which (and are presumably paid to) spread misinformation (like the TV Guide twit). I like me some Deadwood for what it is. And I even say cocksucker more often after watching it.
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I tend to say things like "spatial anomaly" and "filthy Klingon" more often after watching ENTERPRISE. :)
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I read the article. You're wrong and a bore.
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