Luck: HBO series: David Milch, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Mann

The last shot is pretty depressing, which sort of flies against the optimism of the series, but it's fitting in its own way.

i liked the first season of deadwood okay but i couldnt really get into the 2nd. mcshane was great, but i felt like i had enough.

did u watch the third

no should i

tbh i thought most of dude's "shakespearean command of language" was a lot of lorem ipsum mumbo-jumbo

ha, yes, i'm listening to these idea of the writer lectures and most of the sentences remind me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously

Season 3's the worst so I dunno if I could recommend it to someone who was sick of the show by s2, but there's some cool stuff in there... like one of the most memorable fight scenes I've ever seen on film or tv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un1XLmK84Vw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeS6y6mbUzY

Now you don't need to bother!

Also 'upscale violence against women' - yawn.

― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

shrug

all im saying is these shows are a bit too tasteful

but 'boardwalk' is way way worse on that score

think 'deadwood' had a pretty good non-conclusion conclusion -- it always ducked the really massive 'oh shit' possibilities, not just in the third season

Boardwalk is too tasteful? I don't follow you. It doesn't seem very tasteful to me.

Deadwood wasn't cancelled, which just adds to the myth. It simply stopped. But then again, Milch et al. sort of boxed themselves in by using real characters. When one of your major villains is a future US senator, you can't just kill the guy off.

the way deadwood ended def brought it down a notch a two ime - still v classic tho

original idea was to include the historical flood and fire that each destroyed the town and other wild shit - iirc hbo canceled it then changed their mind but milch was already working on that piece john from cinini so he was gonna do two movie length eps then that never happened neither - agreed it couldve been more compelling if he didnt worry abt historical feality

Yeah, I could've dealt with season 3 ending the way it did if I knew there was more coming, but for that to just be IT - eugh

can we go easy on the deadwood details? planning to watch it at xmas.

guys caek still hasnt seen star wars so just chill

yeah i mean you can talk about star wars vs. beverly hills buntz in generalities but please no details

SPOLIER bullock and swerengen get gay married final ep is their honeymoon in CINCINNATI

Dan VS The Captain was one of the most intense things i've ever seen in a drama. Kinda feel like rewatching deadwood again now!

the season 1 veronica mars shit was the coldest shit i've ever seen

the movie length pieces never ever ever happening + john in cinci being difficult to justify really soured me on deadwood in retrospect.

kind of surprised major #teamolyphant bro s1ocki has not seen s2-3

i dont like frowny deadwood/diehard olyphant

i accidentally wrote that in caps, shoulda left it like that

sardonic justified olyphant is better though i always liked the fact that in deadwood his character was pretty much insane

ya i like olyphant with a lil twinkle in his eye

he was really good in 'the crazies' too imo though that movie was kinda bullshit

the season 1 veronica mars shit was the coldest shit i've ever seen

― omar little, Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:18 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

I had to think about this for a minutebefore I realized it wasn't a non sequitur! I think that was the first time I ever noticed Kristen Bell, and yeah that episode was amazing IMO.

That ep is vital, too, because it marks a real shift in the show. I've told lots of folks on the fence about Deadwood after one or two eps to make it to the Kristen Bell ep, which really emphasizes the show's theme of degrees of evil. Like there;s evil, then there's evil so evil it makes the first evil only seem modestly evil.

ha totally, at 1st yr all this swerengn fellow is quite awful, by the end hes a saint in comparison

i always liked the fact that in deadwood his character was pretty much insane

― omar little, Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:29 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its a more realistic view of a moralist than usual 4 sure

Yeah when he's introduced you're just like oh here's our squarejawed noble hero, but eventually it just turns out that he's a bully and a dickhead?

and awesome

Deadwood is def my fave show ever. Please do not compare it to Boardwalk Empire.

Joan Allen has joined for an arc.

The challenges of filming at Santa Anita.

Despite some logistical challenges and ensuing "mental stress," HBO is "thrilled beyond belief" to be filming the high-profile drama at Santa Anita, said Henry Bronchtein, the co-executive producer of "Luck."

looking forward to this getting cancelled in the middle of the story

Milch on Zenyatta and the Breeders' Cup Classic
http://www.drf.com/news/final-and-deepest-gift-zenyatta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4cgvV9m6mE

Michael Gambon on board as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8yOQJ288GQ&feature=player_embedded

yeah that looks frickin sweet

it'll be nice to see hoffman doing something substantial again

Wow--nice.

this looks awesome

"i cast tom waits as nick nolte as a kentucky trainer with a lot of mileage in his past"

horse riding sequence looked surprisingly exciting. also I think I spotted a very Mann-ish chair-kicking shot.

sorta feel like this and treme's second season might force my hand to get hbo finally

lol you watch treme