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Deadwood Movie - Official teaser trailer. Release date set for May 31.
posted by dobbs (70 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
Wow a wide shot of the whole town, not something that was ever in the original
posted by mit5urugi at 1:09 PM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]


Fuckin' finally.
posted by The Man from Lardfork at 1:13 PM on March 21, 2019 [4 favorites]


GAME OF WHAT

(Oh god, I'm so excited. Seeing Alma stand on the train made me feel things that I thought my cold, dead heart had stopped feeling.)
posted by joyceanmachine at 1:17 PM on March 21, 2019 [4 favorites]


We know for sure Tolliver and Richardson aren't in it because both actors have passed away--same with Eddie Sawyer, though he wasn't even in S3 even though he was still alive. And Adams isn't in it because the actor was busy with Bosch (extremely disappointed about that one), but am curious to see who else shows up. Not gonna check IMDB as looking forward to the surprises.
posted by dobbs at 1:29 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


Deadwood rewatch on fanfare then?
posted by vibratory manner of working at 1:30 PM on March 21, 2019 [14 favorites]


Looks like the previous attempt at a rewatch got into S2. I reckon this trailer and the release date might just get a bunch of hoopleheads to finish it this time.
posted by nubs at 1:33 PM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]


Cocksuckers!
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:37 PM on March 21, 2019 [19 favorites]


Although I do not believe in an afterlife, I kinda hope that Heaven gets new movies, because my dad would have been first in line for this.

He and Al shared the same philosophy of life, "One vile fucking task after another..." and I am excited beyond words to get to spend a minute more with Al and Seth.
posted by teleri025 at 1:48 PM on March 21, 2019 [6 favorites]


16.3 million dollars, same as in town.
posted by clavdivs at 1:56 PM on March 21, 2019


:: raise my antler to the larger pair on the wall ::

”READY FOR BLOOD.”

”...and thanks for the movie.”
posted by Parasite Unseen at 2:00 PM on March 21, 2019


Me, too, teleri025, me too. MrsMogur would have loved to see this coming, and we'd have spent the next few months happily quoting the show to each other. I'll be watching it for her.
posted by Mogur at 2:04 PM on March 21, 2019 [11 favorites]


I'm gonna make me a nice cup of that mothefucking darjeeling and watch the shit out of this.
posted by biscotti at 2:15 PM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]


I never before clicked on some shit on this website so fucking fast.
posted by turbid dahlia at 2:22 PM on March 21, 2019 [8 favorites]


Wow a wide shot of the whole town, not something that was ever in the original

Well, apart from the first episode. From far up in the Black Hills. Probably cost HBO their year's CGI budget back then.
posted by turbid dahlia at 2:26 PM on March 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


I was worried when I didn't see Wu, but Young is credited for this.
posted by bonehead at 2:30 PM on March 21, 2019 [4 favorites]


Fetch the peaches. Magnitude of the occasion merits a full and free authorization of cinnamon.
posted by notquitemaryann at 2:48 PM on March 21, 2019 [24 favorites]


As long as there's some EB Farnum gibbering like a simian, I'm good.
posted by humuhumu at 2:53 PM on March 21, 2019


this is relevant to my interests
posted by lalochezia at 2:53 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


I was laid up, recovering from a truly nasty shoulder surgery, with my 17 inch computer in my lap, on the big couch, I serially watched Deadwood, courtesy of the Salt Lake City library. Al, oh yeah! Later I was discussing how much I loved this series and my daughter's SO said, "Well if it is that Sheriff you like...he is in such and such." I cut him off and said, "No, ho ho ho, Al Swearingen is the man!" He looked at me incredulously. So between this and Tarantino's new piece, I have some stuff to watch. I hope the film is as breathtakingly beautiful and gritty as the series. Sad about the lost characters, though.
posted by Oyéah at 3:07 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


In fairness, Olyphant as Givens in Justified is basically Olyphant as Bullock in Deadwood, but with a different hat and more bullets in his gun. AND THAT'S OK.

I like McShane a lot but he has been given a lot of really shitty one-dimensional identikit characters to play lately. That guy in John Wick. That guy in American Gods. He's just "that guy", whereas Swearengen transcends space and time.
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:09 PM on March 21, 2019 [18 favorites]


I don't know if there is another show where I intensely cared for the characters so much as the characters in this show. I just wanted everyone to be happy and prosperous, unless they were working against the town, in which case I wanted them to just die in a mining accident.

OK, I guess Deadwood and Farscape, which both have strong "adversity turns strangers into family" vibes so I suppose that makes sense.
posted by muddgirl at 3:16 PM on March 21, 2019 [5 favorites]


"Well if it is that Sheriff you like...he is in such and such." I cut him off and said, "No, ho ho ho, Al Swearingen is the man!" He looked at me incredulously.
Samesies.

I always found it hilarious that my dad, who was Mr. Straight-laced White Hat guy, identified so closely with Al. Finally, in one of our Monday Morning post-Deadwood breakdowns, I asked him and he said, "Because, if I'd been allowed to be bad, I would have been as good at it as Al."

Al is a horrible human being, but McShane's delivery makes you want to like him. Even as he's having someone thrown to the hogs, you just can't help thinking he's an alright guy. He's dangerous because of that, not just because he'll throw your sorry ass to the hogs.

I can't tell from the historical record if the real Al was as charming, but god, what a force he would have been if he were.
posted by teleri025 at 3:16 PM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]


Never watched Deadwood.... Should I ?
posted by Pendragon at 3:17 PM on March 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


Pendragon, only if you want to watch what is possibly the best tv series ever. I'm not really being hyperbolic either. Don't get me started...
posted by nushustu at 3:20 PM on March 21, 2019 [7 favorites]


I don't know Pendragon, do you like things that are the best things in the world, or do you only like things that suck and are dumb?
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:21 PM on March 21, 2019 [31 favorites]


Also as much as I liked Westworld, I have to think the best thing about it is that it almost certainly is responsible for this movie actually being made after more than 10 years.
posted by muddgirl at 3:23 PM on March 21, 2019 [6 favorites]


....Eddie Sawyer, though he wasn't even in S3 even though he was still alive.

There were rumors that there was a conflict with the director, but Ricky Jay was too much the professional to gossip about it, and he kept quiet about why he left.
posted by thelonius at 3:34 PM on March 21, 2019


It probably shouldn't have surprised me, but I was surprised when I found out Olyphant was the voice of the "Spirit of the West" in Rango.

Al is a horrible human being,

Yes. He's also a good human being; like everyone in the town, he is a study in contrasts and compromise and sheer human fuckedness. The outset of the series certainly paints Al as the bad guy, and Bullock as the good guy, but I feel like the series then bends that conception pretty hard and quick, because Al has his moments as the moral centre of the show; and his understanding of the fact that the coming "civilization" of the territory will bring with it fucking cocksuckers even worse than he is very much right. He and Seth are a fascinating pair, two sides of the same coin; Al's practicality and willingness to do vile tasks offset by Seth's higher standards and morality - how the two find their way to work together is really an interesting part of the show.

Never watched Deadwood.... Should I ?

It is one of the things that is best in life; that being said, I know people who could not get into the show. The language is...well, I seem to recall reading that it set a record for most swearwords per hour of TV in its day (this was due to the fact that they tried, initially, to use period-appropriate language and found that it made the show a comedy; so they used modern cursing instead), so that's one thing some people have found objectionable. And it isn't easy; it's full of speechifying and it doesn't really hold the viewers hand in terms of easing people in. But...Ian McShane is tremendous, the rest of the cast is full of amazing talent and wonderful, weird, quirky characters (Calamity Jane, Joanie Stubbs, Farnum, Doc Cochran. that come to life amazingly well, and it tells a story about the frontier and civilization and morality and mortality and fucking hoopleheads and motherfucking cocksuckers very well.
posted by nubs at 3:46 PM on March 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


Also as much as I liked Westworld, I have to think the best thing about it is that it almost certainly is responsible for this movie actually being made after more than 10 years.

And thankfully it got made before the AT&T takeover with their focus on cost-cutting and boosting profits.

Deadwood never had a very big audience and a movie was a tenuous prospect in the best of times. No way would this have gotten off the ground today.
posted by theory at 3:50 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


Hard to say, because I don't know anything about your taste. It's better than The Sopranos, on a par with the first four seasons of The Wire and effortlessly outclasses Breaking Bad. Does that help?
posted by Paul Slade at 4:11 PM on March 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


Never watched it. Like Pendragon, I am considering it now.
posted by doctornemo at 4:12 PM on March 21, 2019


Ian McShane was always the #1 fan of this show, my headcannon is there must have been some Al Swearengen-style town hall meetings with tinned peaches to convince all the various corporate entities to get this done at the last possible time.
posted by muddgirl at 4:13 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


They probably won't be bringing Flora back from the dead but she was played by Eleanor Shellstrop and now I really want a clip of Kristen Bell shouting "Clocksucker!"
posted by ActingTheGoat at 4:15 PM on March 21, 2019 [10 favorites]


Wait, Kristen Bell is in this... ?
posted by Pendragon at 4:20 PM on March 21, 2019


I had joked about cutting down on the per word cost of writing the series, since every other word was cocksucker.
posted by Oyéah at 4:31 PM on March 21, 2019


Kristen Bell is in this... ?

Only for like an episode or two.
posted by porpoise at 4:33 PM on March 21, 2019


There were rumors that there was a conflict with the director, but Ricky Jay was too much the professional to gossip about it, and he kept quiet about why he left.

The show had numerous directors so I find this to be a stretch. Perhaps he had problems with the writer/creator, David Milch, which isn't a super stretch in general (he rubs many the wrong way), but a bit of a stretch to me for those two particular personalities. I assumed it was more just scheduling. Sawyer wasn't a huge role,but it was a nice one. I love his delivery of "Gentlemen, watch the felt."
posted by dobbs at 5:05 PM on March 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


Never watched Deadwood.... Should I ?

There's a fair bit of visceral violence in the show (against men & women) which kept some of the people I know from watching it at the time. Saying that, it is a very well written show with some exceptional performances - particularly McShane who I don't think had been as good before or after.
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:31 PM on March 21, 2019


He and Seth are a fascinating pair, two sides of the same coin

I see what you're saying but don't completely agree. They're two different coins that are similar. They're both interesting, fascinating characters because, to steal a phrase from Milch, they "spin against their drive," as do all the other characters in the show. This is what makes it unique.

Often, Milch manages to cover all aspects of a "thing" by having two people who seem like connected opposites each approach it. He does this with most of the major characters in the show (Alma and Trixie, each with two loves: one they want and one they need; Utter and Jane, each incapacitated in different ways by their love of Bill; Tolliver and Farnum, their megalomania crippled by their lack of foresight; Steve and Woolcott, blinded by irrational, singular pursuits; etc.).

this was due to the fact that they tried, initially, to use period-appropriate language and found that it made the show a comedy

Do you have a source for this? I have never heard it.

Since most people's concepts of westerns comes from Hollywood during the Hayes era, most people's concepts of the west is simply inaccurate is Milch's thinking. Milch is on record, repeatedly, citing the language as mostly accurate to the time. Sanderson, who plays Farnum, is on record saying that he added the word "motherfucker" to a speech but that it was the best take so they kept it, even though they weren't sure it was accurate. (They later added a reference to this where Farnum says to another character, "Did they talk that way back then?") But Milch has cited written references to the word from as early as 1890, so it's possible it was around 33 years earlier, when the show takes place.
posted by dobbs at 5:45 PM on March 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


Kristen Bell is in this... ?

Only for like an episode or two.


It's a great part and performance though.

Ron Swanson actor guy is in it too, I think the first episode or second, and it's uhh, quite a surprising cameo.
posted by turbid dahlia at 5:46 PM on March 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


Ron Swanson actor guy is in it too, I think the first episode or second, and it's uhh, quite a surprising cameo.

I don't think it's a cameo as it's one of his first credits, certainly before Swanson. It's episode 2, Deep Water. The only thing I've ever liked him in.
posted by dobbs at 5:50 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


As for the violence - I really cannot handle violence on screen, but somehow this show is tolerable to me (just barely...but I can mostly stomach it).
posted by aloiv2 at 5:57 PM on March 21, 2019


Do you have a source for this? I have never heard it.

I’m sure I read it in an interview; I’m not at a computer right now but when I have time I’ll try to find it.
posted by nubs at 6:02 PM on March 21, 2019


In fairness, Olyphant as Givens in Justified is basically Olyphant as Bullock in Deadwood, but with a different hat and more bullets in his gun. AND THAT'S OK.

They're completely different characters! Givens is tightly-wound self-loathing and Bullock is tightly-wound suppressed anger. Night and day, peeps.
posted by kirkaracha at 6:09 PM on March 21, 2019 [9 favorites]


I don't think it's a cameo as it's one of his first credits

Yeah cameo's not really what I meant, unless you can have a retroactive cameo? I guess "bit part".
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:19 PM on March 21, 2019


Cussing and Fighting
David Milch, creator of the new HBO Western, Deadwood, is peeved that TV critics keep carping about his potty-mouthed pioneers. “After a while, it gets a little discouraging,” he growls, calling right back from L.A. to answer the question once and for all: Did 1870s Americans really use such colloquially foul language with the Tourettic frequency of a Hollywood producer?

Jesse Sheidlower, the American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and the scholar of cussing who wrote The F-Word, says probably not. Not that frontiersmen were genteel. “There were cursing contests when cowboys would get together and insult each other,” he says. But “the evidence that we have is that they were using more religious blasphemy than the sexual insults which are popular today.” And on the show.
‘Deadwood’ Is Returning, So Let’s Count All the F-Bombs Over the Original Three-Season Run
...speaking of profanity, it's probably no secret to anyone that Deadwood had more per capita swear words than any TV show ever, as shown in my three personal favorite Deadwood phrases:

1. "San Francisco cocksucker" (Mr. Wu's pigs are my spirit animals).
2. "Fucking dirt worshipers" (which is what Swearengen called Native Americans ... and is, by the way, the leading candidate to replace the "Redskins" nickname.
And of course ...
3. "God rest the souls of that poor family... and pussy's half price for the next 15 minutes."
Obscenity Rap
Back then, those oaths were strong enough to spawn a whole vocabulary of the substitutes that H. L. Mencken called "denaturized profanities" -- "darn," "doggone," "dadburned," "tarnation,' "goldarn," "gee-whiz," "all-fired," and the like. (It's only in the 1920's that you start running into substitutes for "fucking" like "freaking" or "effing" -- another sign that it wasn't used as a swear word before then.) But if you put words like "goldarn" into the mouths of the characters on "Deadwood," they'd all wind up sounding like Yosemite Sam.
posted by kirkaracha at 7:12 PM on March 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


...and now I have to rewatch Deadwood again and then rewatch Justified again.
posted by kirkaracha at 7:13 PM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]


...personal favorite Deadwood phrases

"Fuck every fucking one of you. I wish I was a fucking tree."
posted by thelonius at 7:15 PM on March 21, 2019 [18 favorites]


Soooo many good lines.

"Well c'mon, Leon, barge the fuck amongst us!"
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:19 PM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]


So so so many favorite quotes from this show. How about the Doc's "I'd rather be lucky than smart"? Or Bullock, speaking of Reverend Smith, "High water he never made much sense. Now he just utters pure gibberish."

To those who haven't seen it before, the misogyny and racism in the show are off the fucking charts. Now, part of that maybe you can say is the fault of the era depicted in the show. I love Deadwood more than anything else I've ever watched on tv, but it needs a serious content note. Also, there's a lot of violence and a small to moderate amount of gore.
posted by S'Tella Fabula at 8:07 PM on March 21, 2019 [2 favorites]


Yeah, there's too many. Top of my fucking head:

- That's one in a row for you.
- Pain or damage don't end the world -- or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man -- and give some back.
- I'm thirsty. / Lie back, take aim, and piss!
- Custer was a cunt. The end.
- Stupid, aren't you? / Yes, sir. / Better than what some of these others are.
- If this is His will, reverend, He's a son of a bitch.
- I don't like being weak, and I know that I am. I yearn to rely on a strong will. I fear what I'm capable of in its absence. Whearas you know nothing of yourself. Are you shitting or going blind? On foot or on horseback?
- You have the advantage of me. / That ain't a possibility.
- They walked in like they never fucking left.
- Shall I exhale out my ass?
- I am good at first impressions and you are a fucking cunt and I doubt you've fought many men -- maybe even one.
- Fuck -- pardon my french -- / Oh, I speak French.
- Tell your god to ready for blood.
- Could you have been born and not egg-hatched, as I'd always assumed? Did your mother hover over you, snaggle-toothed and doting?
- Puberty may bring you to understand what we take for mother-love is really murderous hatred and a desire for revenge.
- Close the door, Jane. It's nippy on my twat!
- How stupid you think I am? / I don't know. We just met.
- Will you let me go to hell the way I want?
- I like the way you lie.
- Be in my joint in two hours. We're forming a fucking government.
- You're too ugly to be sneaking up on people!
- In short you've overplayed your hand.
- Didn't even the birds seem to sing different? / More like they meant it... Is this a rich place, Mr Hearst? / Oh, very rich. / Guess we don't need them birds, then.
- Trust your instincts, Mr Farnum. We'll have you in a dress in no time.
- I don't want my getting fucked to put others to inconvenience.
- Wash and stack, chip-monkey!
- I'll start my own paper to lie the other way.
- You hurted me.
- Send up two plates of food. And don't spit in them.
- It must cost you sleep, the thieving and bilking you lose, needing to rub against your betters.
- I'd like to use your ointment to suffocate you.
- You are reckless, madam. You indulge yourself.
- I find you the most severe disappointment of all. / Sometimes to myself as well.

the misogyny and racism in the show are off the fucking charts

Whoa, now. I'll buffer this by saying it has some of the strongest female characters ever filmed. Trixie, Joanie, and Alma are incredibly well-written and performed. I'd also argue that Trixie moves as much of the plot as just about anyone. In addition, Drunk Steve Fields is unquestionably the greatest portrayal of a racist that I have ever seen and the most overlooked performance in the show.

In my opinion, neither the racism or misogyny are gratuitous.
posted by dobbs at 8:42 PM on March 21, 2019 [6 favorites]


Al: (Sits, lets out a sigh) Why ain’t you up and running again?

Merrick: I’m in despair. The physical damage is repairable, but the psychic wound may be permanent.

Al: (After a pause.) You ever been beaten, Merrick?

Merrick: (Rolls his eyes) Once, when I thought I had the smallpox, Doc Cochran slapped me in the face —

(Al slaps him.)

Merrick: Ah! (He stares at Al, touching his cheek — he leans forward) Stop it, Al.

Al: Are you dead?

Merrick: Well, (touches cheek) I’m in pain, but no, I’m obviously not dead.

Al: And obviously you didn’t fucking die when the Doc slapped you.

Merrick: No.

Al: So including last night, that’s three fucking damage incidents that didn’t kill you. Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair, or fuckin’ beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man — and give some back.
posted by kirkaracha at 8:44 PM on March 21, 2019 [9 favorites]


I told my wife I thought that scene was a great life lesson and she questioned my parenting skills.
She is an excellent mom.
posted by kirkaracha at 8:45 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


Charlie Utter walks by and sees Jane leaning head-first against a building, blind drunk.
CHARLIE: What are they paying you to hold that building up?
JANE: ...Charlie Utter... of Utter Charlie & Freight...
CHARLIE: Close enough to get you offered a position.
JANE: I'm in a position! You eternally-meddling cocksucker.
CHARLIE: Yeah, leaning forward shit-faced drunk.
JANE: Go away, Charlie.
posted by dephlogisticated at 10:31 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


my god is preparing for blood
posted by Sauce Trough at 2:10 AM on March 22, 2019


I like McShane a lot but he has been given a lot of really shitty one-dimensional identikit characters to play lately. That guy in John Wick. That guy in American Gods. He's just "that guy", whereas Swearengen transcends space and time.

The only McShane performance that I've seen that comes close to Swearengen is his performance as Saul in the weird-ass biblical allegory drama series Kings (2009). But while Swearengen got to play against the likes of Timothy Olyphant's Bullock, Saul's foil (David, of course) was played in a supremely forgettable way by Christopher Egan. It goes to show that despite Swearengen being the highlight of Deadwood for many people, the show wouldn't have been what it was without a incredibly rich cast of supporting characters.

(Kings is far from a perfect show, but I'd still recommend it for anyone who like unique shows that swing for the fences and don't quite connect.)
posted by Johnny Assay at 4:59 AM on March 22, 2019 [1 favorite]


This show took big chunks out of my brain at the time - all my understanding of what a tv show could/should/ be/was had been shaken by the Sopranos but then broken apart and rebuilt by Deadwood.

But fuck at times it was so so so so so so so hard. And the characters were so uncompromising - which was/is a huge point in their favor.

The most impressive part to me at the time and now was the intricacy of the language - it was so beautiful and profane and violent and elaborate. At least once every ten minutes something shocking or surprising or beautiful would happen. Or barbaric. (I associate so many actors with the characters they played that when I see them in other shows/movies I always find myself judging them against themselves in the other role.)

Should you see it? Yes. Make a pact with yourself to watch three episodes. (and remember that Breaking Bad came a couple years after it - it's a source and inspiration of much of today's 'best' tv.)
posted by From Bklyn at 6:54 AM on March 22, 2019 [2 favorites]


"Fuck every fucking one of you. I wish I was a fucking tree."

In some ways, this line sorts encapsulates what I love about Deadwood.

1. It's perfectly acted.
2. It's perfectly situated in the scene it's delivered in.
3. It's really funny.
4. It says something deeper and smart and culturally literate -- it's said by Trixie, a sex worker with little formal education in a rough frontier camp, snarling it to about men. And it sounds completely natural and understandable coming out of her mouth and enjoyable on that level, but it's also a really apt meta-reference to classical mythology, and another famous story of a woman who had enough of dudes and their penises and egos.

So yes, this is a particular situation for Trixie, told with particularity, but it's also a universal story, in that women have felt this level of exasperation for thousands and thousands of years, because this level of male assholery has been around for thousands and thousands of years. And in the story, she gets turned into a tree, and Apollo still fucking finds a way to make it all about him, which is interesting in the context of Deadwood because [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]

It's also a nice touch from when Deadwood was going to be about Ancient Rome, and got pipped to the post by my deeply beloved Rome.
posted by joyceanmachine at 7:26 AM on March 22, 2019 [7 favorites]


(I also had to quit the show for a while in the first season because of the episode about the two kids. You know the episode I'm talking about.)
posted by joyceanmachine at 7:30 AM on March 22, 2019 [1 favorite]


>this was due to the fact that they tried, initially, to use period-appropriate language and found that it made the show a comedy

Do you have a source for this? I have never heard it.


The best I was able to find is a quote in this story (Deadwood Rides Again):

"Some linguists pointed out that 1880s Americans did not use the F-word as often, or in as many grammatical variations, as characters on Milch's show; Milch replied that he'd thought about having the characters swear in period, using religious oaths instead of secular curses, but decided against it, because to modern, secular ears, 19th-century blasphemy sounds more quaint than shocking. (If the characters used period-accurate swear words, Milch told one interviewer, "They'd all wind up sounding like Yosemite Sam.")"

I can't find the original interview where Milch said that, just further references in other articles to the fact that Milch said it in an interview one time; but it appears that the actual source may be from Geoffrey Nunberg in Obscenity Rap and not Milch at all. So, yeah, it might be that somewhere along the line that quote got attributed to Milch erroneously and it all got conflated in my mind as well to something bigger than it was.
posted by nubs at 7:38 AM on March 22, 2019 [2 favorites]


Pain or damage don't end the world -- or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man -- and give some back.

It's already in this thread twice, but that line, and Swearengen's closing line of the final episode, while once again scrubbing blood off the floor, "Wants me to tell him something pretty" are both pretty devastating in their own right.
posted by Ghidorah at 7:40 AM on March 22, 2019 [1 favorite]


I was taken by such joyous shock by this trailer. I'd heard in the winds that a Deadwood movie was in the works or eminent basically forever, so I just stopped paying attention. And then.... THIS! Man. Deadwood is for sure one of my all time favorite TV shows, and I don't even like westerns.

Hell, it was literally the show that made me want to write my very first post ever on MetaFilter.
posted by absalom at 7:51 AM on March 22, 2019 [1 favorite]


The language is strangely compelling, and you might find yourself emulating the speech patterns if you binge-watch. It's a combination of flowery, formal language interspersed with the most vile of profanity, and it's jarring to listen to. But it's really well-suited for characters like Al Swearengen, who is like a black hole of charisma from which your eyes cannot escape whenever he's on the screen. Until Powers Boothe shows up, and then there are TWO incredibly charismatic, powerful characters on the screen, like the irresistible force and the immovable object.

I've got the series on DVD but it's been ages since I last watched it, so it's time for a re-watch. While people are at it, they should check out Carnivale, another truly unique HBO series that didn't get as much of a run as it deserved.
posted by Autumnheart at 7:53 AM on March 22, 2019


Wait, Kristen Bell is in this... ?

If you think that Kristen Bell is a surprise, just wait until you find out about Nick Offerman's wang.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 8:28 AM on March 22, 2019 [1 favorite]


Metafilter: It's a combination of flowery, formal language interspersed with the most vile of profanity.

Get the fuck out.
posted by Twang at 8:41 AM on March 22, 2019


E. B. Farnum considers his lot in life.
posted by billm at 9:57 AM on March 22, 2019 [2 favorites]


Never watched Deadwood.... Should I ?

Deadwood is The Great American Novel everyone's been hoping would get written. It just happens to be written for television.
posted by tzikeh at 11:48 AM on March 22, 2019 [4 favorites]


my deeply beloved Rome.

another HBO series that got cut short - that's why Season 2 was so rushed, it was supposed to have been three seasons.
posted by thelonius at 12:03 PM on March 22, 2019 [5 favorites]


A little late to this party, but everyone's favorite quotes somehow missed something approaching my own worldview:

In life, you have to do a lot of things you don't fuckin' want to do. Many times, that's what the fuck life is -- one vile fucking task after another. But don't get aggravated -- then the enemy has you by the short hair.
posted by booooooze at 4:09 PM on March 25, 2019 [1 favorite]


I have a sudden hankering for pancakes.
posted by homunculus at 12:14 PM on March 26, 2019 [1 favorite]


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