3 posts tagged “deadwood”

There are many things I love about the show Deadwood. (Heck, I think it's just about the best TV show ever.) My favorite thing about it, though, is that if two actors do well in their scenes together, they start getting more scenes. My favorite example is the continuing scenes featuring Wu and Al, working past their language barrier.  I never get tired of hearing Wu refer to Al as "Swegin".  There are plenty of others as well. Who would have predicted in the first season that E.B. and Richardson would provide ongoing comic relief, or that Richardson would turn out to be such an endearing oaf? Then there's Cy Tolliver's right hand men, Conn and Leon. Any scene featuring those two works to comic perfection. There are many other examples as well.

It takes a trully brilliant creative team for a show to pick up so well on the strengths of the cast and feature them the way that Deadwood does. I'll miss it when it's gone.

On the Well, we've been discussing how much time passed between the end of season two and the beginning of season three of Deadwood.  I think it has been a couple of months, others say a couple of weeks.

A key clue was Steve mentioning that he had been caretaker of the livery in Hostetler's absence for I believe six weeks. Hostetler was in town at the end of season two, so it has been at least that long between the two seasons.

Anyone read anything about the timing or notice anything else definitive in the episode?

Deadwood, to me, is the greatest series to ever appear on television. I have a bit of a soft spot for westerns anyway, and Deadwood is so much better than just about anything that's appeared in that genre.  Billions of people around the world are going nuts because the World Cup started yesterday.  I'm thrilled because Deadwood starts tomorrow.