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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Deadwood: The Complete Series (DVD) I watched the entire series at the rate of about 3 or 4 episodes a day as soon as I bought it. What I'm saying is, I like Deadwood.Complaints that S2 and S3 didn't live up the first season are valid, but the slower pacing and intense/lengthy bouts of dialogue in later episodes didn't detract from my enjoyment at all.the complaints about profanity amuse me, because that's one of my favorite parts of the show. I must be a vulgar person
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Amazon Sales Rank: #647 in DVDBrand: HBO Home VideoReleased on: 2008-12-09Rating: NR (Not Rated)Aspect ratio: 1.78:1Number of discs: 19Formats: Box set, Widescreen, Subtitled, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSCOriginal language: English, French, SpanishSubtitled in: EnglishDimensions: 2.00 pounds Running time: 2006 minutesFeaturesCondition: NewFormat: DVDBox set; Widescreen; Subtitled; Closed-captioned; Color; NTSCEditorial ReviewsAmazon.comDeadwood 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. 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 others. --Tom Keogh