Richardson’s and Aunt Lou’s dialogue throughout season 3 is wonderful.

Well that was one of the best things I've ever watched. Definitely in my top three TV shows.

I was disappointed by the last episode, but I'll take it over some forced resolution which doesn't feel genuine. With each minute I felt the potential of it all tying together nicely become less and less likely, before eventually accepting that it was never going to satisfy me in the way it would had they known it was the end. I just feel like season 4 could have been amazing with all the built up tension and untouched on ideas. I'm grateful that we even got the 36 episodes anyway.

I'm going to watch the movie tonight but I'm not holding out hope that it will touch the greatness of the show. I've heard mixed opinions but I'm going to try and keep an open mind.

Here goes: Brad Dourif (and Powers Boothe) portraying an addict(s) in a scene from Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. They play the Doc and Cy Tolliver in Deadwood, respectively. When I found out they both did an old movie together a quarter century earlier I had to check it out. It costars Veronica Cartwright (of Aliens and Invasion of the Body Snatchers fame) and has LeVar Burton, James Earl Jones, and Randy Quaid in supporting roles. What a cast! I'm only about a third of the way through but it's shaping up to be unexpectedly sympathetic.

Halfway through season 1 and I'm finding myself not engaged/losing interest. I've heard so many great things about it (+ I love history) so I decided to give it a try but the characters and their storylines just aren't clicking for me. I actually even find some of the performances over the top or overly dramatic like in a stage play. And the repetitiveness of the setting isn't helping either. I'm Gen Z so it could just be I'm more used to brain rot, but I usually love HBO shows. I'm just wondering if this one is going anywhere...

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I'm on ep 6. I just feel like so far it's everything you'd expect in a western and there's been so many westerns before...so I'm wondering where's the novel take or twist, or will there never be one? It's just not very exciting thus far beyond a good monologue here and there. Also there's one too many "fucknuts."

He's playing a coke dealer in Lone Wolf McQuade(1983) named Snow. Great 80s action movie, love Sanderson. thought I'd share!

It's fucking cold outside.

Anyone paid attention to whether most characters have a consistent weapon? Bullock always has his Remington 1875 (love those). Pretty sure Wild Bill’s guns stayed the same, although he was only a few episodes so I guess that would have been easier. Any other characters always seen carrying the same thing?

I’d check myself, but just finished my 178th rewatch, so need to give it at least a few months before I start all over again…

I happened to be watching and there he was- a limo driver.

Jewel asks Al if he wants her to get him coffee, or clean a stain. Al tells her to clean the stain. Just as she painstakingly gets to the floor to clean the stain, Al changes his mind and asks her to get him coffee instead, making Jewel lose her mind while Al smirked at her.

I cannot find this scene again, I’m hoping someone here can help me find the episode.

Cheers!

I have wrote a long post after I finished season 1 few weeks back, and I finally reached the end, I'll give it some time before I watch the movie, and here are my random thoughts about the whole show.

I knew it was cancelled, and the episodes leading to the last were super frustrating to watch, because it seemed the conflict with Hearst was just starting to heat up. It felt like Negan came to The Walking Dead. But actually the last episode surprisingly tied it up nicely enough. I can definitely imagine this to be a real climax of that plot and then season 4 to be more focused on more mundane politics between the two sides as Hearst was no longer in the town. Like in real life, things just happen without the rules of drama, and just end without big finale.

What I loved the most about the show is that at its core it's always been optimistic about people. Every character had human side to them, even Hearst, even Wolcott. Even Steve found it in himself to offer Samuel to stay and work in the stables after Hostetler suicide. And then Samuel still felt compassion to him when he got lobotomized by the horse even after all the insults. And I can come up with a hundred more moments like this between various characters. It was just so comforting to see.

I loved all the small scenes between characters that seemed to peak into moment that weren't usually shown. And you would always have to read the room, read between the lines and dig into the emotional core yourself along with the characters. Things weren't just spoken out literally, but you have to actually understand the context and feel the scene. For example, scenes with Jane and Joanie. Lesser shows would have them speak the drama, but Deadwood made their interaction so realistic, because no one really shares their feeling like in cheap dramas, it's always avoidance and changing topics and things left unsaid. And you could say that about any character interactions on the show.

Al Swearengen is of course the best. I actually somewhat guessed at what his character would feel like when I just started watching, because I knew he was very liked, but I wasn't disappointed. It was so satisfying to see his character unravel. It's funny how in the beginning the Gem crew felt like a den of dirty bastards, but by the end it became this weird bastion of resistance and moral code.

Shoutout to the fight of Dan vs the Captain in S3E5, felt like that was building up from the beginning of Season 2, when Wolcott appeared and started namedropping Hearst. I was truly afraid that Dan would end up dead or crippled. Al's acceptance of that as he looked down as Captain started drowning Dan was tragic and was better than any exclamation.

I'm glad Brad Dourif stayed until the end as Doc Cochran. I was afraid that the actor of his caliber would leave the show. I got really sad when he got sick, because I thought that was it. I do think the peak of his character was in season 1 though. I wish they explored his trauma more.

I did not expect what Ellsworth's character was going to become in the end. The scene between him and Alma when she was trying to make out with him while high on dope was probably the bizarre, yet heartfelt scenes in the show. Did not expect him to become a man of such integrity when I saw him in the beginning. His ultimate death was shocking.

Cy Tolliver was another favorite character of mine. He was very hard to read, seemed to appear like an outright villain, but he seemed to have really got layers beneath him by the end. He always had this weird relationship with Joanie that always felt more than just simply exploitative on his part. It was definitely strongly implied that he, not unlike Jane, was suppressing some kind of trauma had this cold charisma to hide any vulnerability. It was especially evident in his last interaction with Joanie in the last episode. I'd have loved to see where his character would have gone.

Also, was I the only one who felt really bad about all these poor women? That scene where Cy pulled a gun on Jasmine and she helplessly showed him her breasts in fear just hoping that this would soothe his anger. Felt so bad for her. And the rest of the poor women in both Gem and Bella Union, having to endure that humiliation everyday. Although they probably had the safer life there than anywhere outside in those time and places.

Overall, absolutely blown away by the show, definitely goes on a pedestal of the best shows I watched. I've already recommended this to my father, and he loved it as well, and was crushed to know that it was cancelled. I'll keep recommending it.

Now, I'm going to wait a bit and watch the movie later, as I saw some others recommended.

PS. Loved Brian Cox in this as well, especially having watched Succession just prior. Completely different character, yet quite similar in some moments. I heard he's not in the movie, oh well.

PSS. I also learned halfway through season 2 that it's actually a real town in US and it's largely based on some real events and characters! As a person unfamiliar with US history, that came as a surprise. I thought it was all purely fictional. It's even cooler to imagine some version of these characters actually lived.

Regards

PSSS. Swearengen and Wu camaraderie was one of my favorite things.

Deadwood is comfort TV for me.

Now all you have to decide is how much of that 8 thousand you'll to give to me.

E.B. Farnum is such a fucking weasel and possibly one of my favorite characters of all time

Cocksucker Bullock, When you can’t stand the sight of him, he’s nowhere but underfoot.

I’m just wondering if anyone knows the name of this actress. Only reason I’m asking is because she is gorgeous and I was curious of anything else she is in. The IMDB doesn’t Have a full listing of the cast and most of the gem girls just don’t appear in credits. So I was just wondering if anyone knows?

Walter Hill's other take on Deadwood. (He directed the first episode of the series)

Hi, did y'all know that Ray McKinnon was in Fear the Walking Dead as a ruthless, murderer who was wheelchair bound? He appears in Season 3 episode 15. He has longish hair and a mustache. I was quite surprised to see him in this.

Edit: The more I watched today I also saw Charlie Utter and of course Dayton Callie, and Garrett Dillahunt.

Since the dialogue is more about the feel rather than how people back then actually speak, what would the accurate dialogue look like? I've heard that David Milch said the original dialogue sounds childish but we never got examples of it.

Before he connected with her, he was making his quota for whiskey, pussy and food. He was a regular at the Gem.

Even when he married her he didn’t expect sex.

He was entitled to some relief. What a man does away from the table is his own business.

He seemed genuinely sad for Aunt Lou when telling her about his death. I know he didn’t trust Odell but it seemed like he was willing to be played if it might lead him to untouched gold in Liberia. I also think he knew that Aunt Lou would suspect his involvement either way, so he was just kinda bummed at the whole situation not leading to anything.

UPDATE: I believe in all the reasoning for why Hearst would have Odell killed. But I don’t think we’re factoring in his greed and hunger for the color. And choosing not to kill Odell, in order to have things play out to see if untouched gold was in the outcome, would not make Hearst less of a sociopath. It just makes him true to his pursuit of the color above anything else.

So he used it to swindle Brom, using Tim as the claim’s supposed owner and Farnum as the other bidder to swindle Brom.

In the process he ends up losing a bonanza gold claim. One of his few tactical mistakes.