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DVD Deadwood - The Complete First Season
The remarkable first season of Deadwood represents one of those periodic, wholesale reinventions of the Western that is as different from, say, Lonesome Dove as that miniseries is from Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo or the latter is from Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur. In many ways, HBO's Deadwood embraces the Western's unambiguous morality during the cinema's silent era through the 1930s while also blazing trails through a post-NYPD Blue, post-The West Wing television age exalting dense and customized dialogue. On top of that, Deadwood has managed an original look and texture for a familiar genre: gritty, chaotic, and surging with both dark and hopeful energy. Yet the show's creator, erstwhile NYPD Blue head writer David Milch, never ridicules or condescends to his more grasping, futile characters or overstates the virtues of his heroic ones.
Set in an ungoverned stretch of South Dakota soon after the 1876 Custer massacre, Deadwood concerns a lawless, evolving town attracting fortune-seekers, drifters, tyrants, and burned-out adventurers searching for a card game and a place to die. Others, particularly women trapped in prostitution, sundry do-gooders, and hangers-on have nowhere else to go. Into this pool of aspiration and nightmare arrive former Montana lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) and his friend Sol Starr (John Hawkes), determined to open a lucrative hardware business. Over time, their paths cross with a weary but still formidable Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) and his doting companion, the coarse angel Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert); an aristocratic, drug-addicted widow (Molly Parker) trying to salvage a gold mining claim; and a despondent hooker (Paula Malcomson) who cares, briefly, for an orphaned girl. Casting a giant shadow over all is a blood-soaked king, Gem Saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), possibly the best, most complex, and mesmerizing villain seen on TV in years. Over 12 episodes, each of these characters, and many others, will forge alliances and feuds, cope with disasters (such as smallpox), and move--almost invisibly but inexorably--toward some semblance of order and common cause. Making it all worthwhile is Milch's masterful dialogue--often profane, sometimes courtly and civilized, never perfunctory--and the brilliant acting of the aforementioned performers plus Brad Dourif, Leon Rippy, Powers Boothe, and Kim Dickens. --Tom Keogh
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Pretty cool
I think the key to the achievement is the brisk evolutionary pace portrayed. The setting itself is dynamic. We are not yet again trapped in a police precinct or hospital ward with the usual gang, going nowhere, week after week, knowing that such-and-such character is here to stay because he has tested well in market research and we just read that the actor has recently renegotiated his contract.Deadwood is blessed with a dynamism given to it by history itself.I was surprised at how early on Hickock met his fate.Deadwood looks pretty cool.
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I have no doubt in my mind that this series will go down as the most realistic western ever done.I am a big Clint Eastwood fan but i am afraid Clint would not be able to top this one.I have heard people belly aching about the bad language used, even here in New Zealand but hey that's why they called it the wild west.The sets look great,the town looks like a real hell hole and Ian McShane who plays Al Swearengen is like the J R Ewing of the old west only meaner.I have always been a big Powers Booth fan and i am glad him and Brad Douriff are also in this epic series.I am about to watch season 2 and can't wait until season 3 comes out,i never watch them on T V here as they have about a million ads on and I have always thought that this spoils a show,keep up the good work Deadwood cast and crew.
Awesome entertainment!
Love it! What do I love? The multi-dimensional characters. There is a little good or a little evil in everyone, let's see it on TV. I love HBO series Sopranos, Carnivale & Six Feet Under. I loved Carnivale best, then Deadwood, then Sopranos, then Six Feet Under.
For Ian McShane this is the portrayal of a so-far lifetime. You don't see better acting. He's amazing and deserves an Emmy. And I hated him as Lovejoy (sorry Ian). Brad Dourif again deserves an Emmy. He's superb, and I do not overstate. Ray McKinnon's exquisite portrayal of the Reverend brought tears to my eyes, repeatedly. He definitely deserved an Emmy. The ladies' parts are excellent, but I think a little overmuch is made of Calamity Jane because she is so, ahem, different. But the actress portraying her is perfection. Trixie is my favorite, played by Paula Malcolmsen. What I absolutely love most about the women's parts is that they are real women with real faces. No botox - they are beautiful with expressions, an occasional little wrinkle and imperfect eyebrows. :-)
What a sad state of the world that HBO would cancel Carnivale AND Deadwood!! There really is no justice in television. Deadwood was in the Top Ten of best TV shows! Right up there with The Shield, 24, Carnivale, Sopranos, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck (OK guilty pleasure), and others.
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