Deadwood on HBO

[Paka]

Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream...

It just gets better and better with the second episode. I've found my new favorite show. I'm itching to run a Western RPG now...

Me too. Here's my set-up to the Story Hour for my one-shot this weekend.

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=83176

I don't know that I would compare Deadwood to the Soprano's, a show that I adore. However, I think that Carnivale is somehow a more valid parallel. Both of them have a historical bent.

After the show there's mud on my boots, grit in my teeth and cheap whiskey in my glass.

Hell yeah.

 

[Mark]

I'm sure the introduction of the new casino, with its more gentile folk, was part of their storyline all along (since the IMDb listings include some actors who only came to the show with that plot advancement), but hopefully the few detractors that malign the show for its excessive foul language will be satisfied with the change.

 

[Faraer]

This is the first new TV drama that's interested me in advance since Firefly, which didn't show on terrestrial UK TV either.

Now I need to figure out how to see EZ Streets.

 

[takyris]

I finally watched the first episode (old Tivo) and liked it. Very well-written. Loved the characters, loved the writing, loved the pace -- slower than network TV, but they had the time to use silence to good effect and show little extra things. It's on the Season Pass, although I know I've missed a few. Anybody mind spoiling me, or pointing me at an online synopsis?

 

[LightPhoenix]

Knowing a bit about how the storyline will go (as far as the general real life history of Deadwood), I'm sure the introduction of the higher-class casino is no reactionary measure.

Also, am I the only one that thinks the opening song is a lot like Carnivale's? I'm wondering if the same person composed both of them. They're quite similar in their forms, in my opinion.

 

[Altalazar]

The language - that is just how it was there in Deadwood. To do otherwise would be to pervert history just to satisfy the more prudish.

People DIE in cold blood on the show - but you hear instead complaints about foul language. As far as I'm concerned, on the scale of "bad", foul language is about a zero, murder is about a trillion and one. I thing someone has their priorities wrong.

In any case, both foul language and murder were part of the history - if you are to do a show like this, I think either you do it right and get the history right, or why even bother?

 

[milotha]

Also, am I the only one that thinks the opening song is a lot like Carnivale's? I'm wondering if the same person composed both of them. They're quite similar in their forms, in my opinion.

Yeah, they sounded a lot alike to me too. I really enjoyed Carnivale, and I was glad to hear that HBO picked it up for another season.

 

[Mark]

Knowing a bit about how the storyline will go (as far as the general real life history of Deadwood), I'm sure the introduction of the higher-class casino is no reactionary measure.

Looks like they plan to get history fairly close to proper, if tonight's episode is anything by which to judge.

It's heating up!

 

[A2Z]

Spoiler for Sunday's episode;

Spoiler

Even though I knew that little was going to kill Hikcock, and in what way, I'm still sorry to see Bill go. I really liked his character and the relationship between him and Bullock was one of the best things in the show.

 

[Thorntangle]

I agree 100%. There was so much potential there and I think it was as designed to heighten the impact.

Fantastic show.

Spoiler for Sunday's episode;

Spoiler

Even though I knew that little was going to kill Hikcock, and in what way, I'm still sorry to see Bill go. I really liked his character and the relationship between him and Bullock was one of the best things in the show.