Deadwood

his talk show / late-night appearances are reliably actually funny

"It’d be a pity not to recognize what’s at stake."
#Deadwood: The Movie premieres May 31. pic.twitter.com/IQpwOmDOwL

— HBO (@HBO) March 21, 2019

I’m in.

let's gooooo

i miss seeing dayton callie in things

Hard to imagine this not being good, can't wait.

Holy shit.

:D

Hawkes is the only one who looks significantly older.

sold.

gonna rewatch the whole thing in the next month i think; partner's never watched it.
don't think i've seen it since it was on tv... wonder how it aged?

It's aged pretty well, I rewatched a chunk of it a few months ago.

it clunks a bit around the seasonal format but has incredible moments

yeah it holds up real good, helped by the fact that nothing that's come since is all that similar

I've seen it thrice through and it loses none of its lustre.

Television event of the year, right here.

film takes place 12 years after s3

i got so excited to see Hearst again

<3 McRaney

morbs have you seen this show? i thought you eschewed tv?

I believe Morbs made some allowance for golden age HBO and Star Trek.

film takes place 12 years after s3

no wonder everybody looks exactly one year older than they should

this is the only TV series I've seen in its entirety post-Larry Sanders Show, probably

Worth a read, very sad news re: Milch

https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/david-milch-deadwood-movie.html

aw, didn't know. what a bummer.

The New Yorker Miltch profile is all time

I hope he does get around to writing his autobiography. That’ll be quite a read.

you might want to click that link, it's not sounding likely

I did. Milch mentions it in the article as a possible thing he might be working on post-Deadwood: The Movie. I understand the likelihood of it not happening; I just thing it'd be a helluva book if he got to write it.

I would read the hell out of it, that's for damn sure.

if you haven't heard these, his (extemporaneous) ~4 hours of lectures during the 2007 writer's strike are worth listening to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85FYtguoxEs

(the rest are easy to find on youtube and they're archived as audio at http://theideaofthewriter.blogspot.com/)

that may be the closes to you get to a memoir

yeah i hate to say it but “i hope he writes a book” is not the best takeaway from that article, even with only a passing understanding of alzheimers

Born on this day 1940: Al Pacino - legend. pic.twitter.com/SsPE1XBuqw

— Balderdash (@notDcfcBoss) April 25, 2019

New trailer, anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0WrXmhvXTA

"murdering, thieving, cocksucking..."

96% sure the one on the right is a reference to the one on the left pic.twitter.com/TMHUkiDdUk

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) May 7, 2019

hey you know what's a good show that's just started that has a lot of the DNA of Deadwood?
https://www.hbo.com/gentleman-jack

^ that's written by Sally Wainwright who did the incredible Happy Valley (amongst other things) a few years back

Two eps in and it’s really really good!

http://www.splitscreensfestival.com/event/deadwood-the-movie-viewing-party

I think that episode 4 is the one that really hooked me.

of jack or deadwood?

i started a separate thread: Gentleman Jack on HBO

Deadwood gets somehow even better when Brian Cox comes to town pic.twitter.com/wpK5Qozln8

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) May 21, 2019

Milch’s career earned him a fortune—more than a hundred million dollars from “Hill Street Blues,” “NYPD Blue,” and “Deadwood” alone. This made possible both a history of philanthropy and promiscuous nondeductible one-to-one largesse. Several years after I published my Profile, as Milch was writing early episodes of “Luck,” he called and tried to persuade me to work on the series. I reflexively declined the offer. He kept at it, and I kept demurring. At last, he said, “Let me just send you some money.” To Milch I owe the strange pleasure of once upon a time hearing myself say, “Please do not send me money.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/david-milchs-third-act

jeez, that's a heartbreaking read

Singer: One of the things we haven’t talked about is fear. Do you have fear?

Milch: Yeah. You need some?

Milch: I feel the past falling away and the attachments of regret for what wasn’t done or was done badly or was done without sufficient sympathy, and it was for that reason that our granddaughter’s visit was such a redemptive and compelling occurrence. Everything is an adventure for her and a delight and a surprise, an opening up, and that’s a big gratification.

Singer: I’ve never thought of you as a sentimental person, but maybe I misread that. How would you characterize yourself?

Milch: As an unsentimental person.

Man.

Singer: Do you feel like you’re in a race?

Milch: Yes.

Singer: You’re racing to finish this memoir?

Milch: More so a larger enterprise, of which this is just a part.

Singer: Can you be more specific?

Milch: I’m trying to make work, the undertaking in general, coherent. To restore a dignity to the way that I proceed, and it’s a demanding process. You’re tempted to . . . toss it in. Just to quit.

Singer: Before this, were you someone who had preoccupying fears?

Milch: No.

Singer: And now what is it you’re afraid of, if you could identify it?

Milch: I intuit the presence of a coherence in my life which I haven’t given expression to in an honorable fashion.

And a pretty great interview w/ Olyphant.

Satisfying wrapup, and the closing line is perfect.