The sequence where Trixie told off the Jew ("fuck the whole lot of you. i wish i was a tree") was as brilliant and clean and incisive as anything I've ever seen on television.
OTM with Dan crying. Such a great character.
Did anybody else notice that the actor who plays the new Hearst man is the same guy who killed Wild Bill?
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link
1) Trixie / Jane2) "Don't look me in the face."3) "Don't spread the rumors. About the claims. Don't."4) "Maybe I'm wrong on account of me being perpetually fucking drunk."
― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 21 March 2005 07:14 (nineteen years ago) link
ahem.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 21 March 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 21 March 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link
(it's fun to post in Deadwoodese!)
― Austin, Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link
This got better after the first two and moved onto incredible about episode five.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 March 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 28 March 2005 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
- the second episode with kristen bell, aka veronica mars, was some of the most brutal shit i've seen anywhere, anytime. the payoff in the next episode (with joanie walking past the pigs and seeing the hat) was great.
- brad dourif was the best thing about the lord of the rings trilogy and he's up there with mcshane in this show.
- i like how timothy olyphant is our "hero", but is basically a fucked-up dude with a temper and a badge who happens to have more conscience than everyone around him.
- wild bill's "cunt" speech to jack mccall was perfect as both an insult and a moment of self-loathing.
- molly parker is wonderful, just barely keeping it all together even living in deadwood and i loved her moment when she watched her father beaten to a pulp (as bullock was defending her) and yet still told that whore at the bella union to look after him.
- paula malcomson as trixie has some great moments and that first setup of her character over the course of the first episode (killing a man who was hitting her, getting beaten by al, ready to kill him but in the end just giving him the gun) is really wonderful.
- the aforementioned veronica mars episode is awesome precisely because it really shifts the villain role from al swearengen to cy tolliver, which is sort of underlined by the final episode when tolliver tries to buy off a general to protect his interests while al is gently putting and end to the reverend's suffering.
- yeah and ian mcshane is doing something similar to what daniel day-lewis did in gangs of new york but he's more charismatic, deeper, smarter, and more complex. probably one of the best performances of any actor in any medium that i've ever seen.
- this is so much better than any series HBO has ever aired, and nothing else comes close with the possible exception of "band of brothers".
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Season 2 DVDs will most likely be out in May. They would have been out this month, to coincide with the new series starting in March, but unfortunately the series has been pushed back to June so HBO can use the Sopranos as a lead-in with Big Love.
― Gukbe (lokar), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
When Altman dies, AO Scott in the NY Times called this an obvious desendant of McCabe and Mrs. Miller, only "pretentious and sentimental" by comparison -- and I agree while still liking the show a lot. I'd never listen to one of David Milch's commentaries all the way through, but I did hear him say he doesn't see Swearengen as "a villain, but one of God's fallen angels" (or somthin).
Sorry, but motherfucking Swearengen is a villain, Milch, you cocksucker. (Why I found the weepy bathos around Swearengen's kidney stones icky.)
I had better see some Bullock buttock before this show is over. (saw Timothy Olyphant do The Santaland Diaries off-Broadway years ago, he filled out candystripe tights verrry nicely.)
Dorrity's gay!
uh, did I fall asleep at some point?
And when are Season 3 DVDs out?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't think of him as a villain, especially compared to Wolcott or Tolliver or Hearst. By comparison, Al has a strong moral core that is compromised by his cruel business sense.
I like to think of Al as Batman to Bullock's Superman (in the Frank Miller sense).
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
(I like my superheroes uncomplicated, hv never touched that Frank Miller stuff)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe it was the layoff between 2 & 3, but the voting stuff just confused the hell out of me.
― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 6 January 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 6 January 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 6 January 2007 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
John from Cincinnati better be really fucking good.
― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.outputnet.com.au/~peter/web/deadwood.htm
― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
i think a deadwood drinking game would be pretty easy to create.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 5 January 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm only up to S01.E03 but there better be some suggestions here when i get back
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 5 January 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.exhibit5a.com/?p=855http://chimpzilla.blogspot.com/2007/07/deadwood-drinking-game-that-aint-for.htmlhttp://vernontbludgeon.com/blog/archives/2004/05/deadwood_a_new.html
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
So is the mini-movies thing just dead? It ended Season 3 and no more?
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
The complete series box had a featurette with David Milch supposedly explaining how it would have ended. Though I haven't seen it, I imagine that is the end of that.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, I did the "everytime a person takes a shot, you take a shot" game once with whiskey.
Yeah, that shit is rough. The second game up there looks pretty fun though.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone who has seen the featurette needs to spoil this.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i think the ending was good as was. would have preferred more seasons obviously.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
same here. just watched the last episode last night and was prepared for a letdown but i kinda liked the low key, poignant way they wrapped it up. was v disappointed that we didn't get to meet this supposed badass knife-wielding midget though.
― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
There is nothing wrong with the ending of Season 3. The movie wrap-up sounded really cool to me.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3516/3275293849_f20c55f7a8_o.gif
More: http://calamityjon.livejournal.com/1119852.html
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Saturday, 14 February 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Do we want a Kings thread?
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
no.
― ☪, Monday, 30 March 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ valentines
― laying | (goole), Monday, 30 March 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
we have one: Butterflies have crowned Ian McShane: NBC's WTF Drama KINGS
and it deserves it.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Monday, 30 March 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link