Can't cut the throat of every person whose demeanor it would improve
January 25, 2016 12:05 PM   Subscribe

Ten years after its third season, HBO confirms that a Deadwood movie will appear on the network.
posted by Brandon Blatcher (83 comments total) 24 users marked this as a favorite
 
I don't claim to speak for everyone, but Deadwood and Twin Peaks are the only canceled TV dramas I need to see continue. I'm good with us not reviving anything after this.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 12:10 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


"Cocksuckers"
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:11 PM on January 25, 2016 [26 favorites]


The awful possibility in such matters is those that first cancelled the show sustaining mortal career injury ... but I'm rarely that fucking lucky
posted by langtonsant at 12:15 PM on January 25, 2016 [5 favorites]


...and pussy's half price for the next 15 minutes!
posted by srboisvert at 12:21 PM on January 25, 2016 [4 favorites]


Deadwood ranks as one of the best shows ever put out on tv and having re-watched it over the summer, it holds up very well. It's exciting to think it'll have a proper ending, after all this time, but fingers are also crossed that this movie doesn't mess up the narrative or characters in anyway.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:23 PM on January 25, 2016 [8 favorites]


Can't cut the throat of every person whose demeanor it would improve

I see what you did there.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:23 PM on January 25, 2016 [2 favorites]


I actually like the way the show ended abruptly at the third season, just when Hearst was about to crush everything. It's arguably a better ending than a lot of other series have had. And the writers should be thankful that they were spared the fan-anger that planned endings almost always seem to raise.

That said, I'm totally going to watch this.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 12:25 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


please don't be shit please don't be shit please don't be shit please don't be shit please don't be shit please don't be shit please don't be shit please don't be shit please don't be shit
hoopleheaded motherfuckers
posted by lalochezia at 12:26 PM on January 25, 2016 [16 favorites]


This is quite emotional for me. Wow, I hope they pull it off.
posted by aesop at 12:28 PM on January 25, 2016


I see what you did there.

By "request"
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:32 PM on January 25, 2016 [2 favorites]


You could have used hooplehead
posted by rhizome at 12:35 PM on January 25, 2016


Open a can of peaches, Johnny!
posted by mudpuppie at 12:35 PM on January 25, 2016 [14 favorites]


By "request"

I recollect.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:35 PM on January 25, 2016


I just watched Deadwood for the first time a few months ago and I am going to vote "ambivalent," here. I didn't think it ended with much of a cliffhanger so much as letting my imagination fill in the blanks, but maybe the movie will be "20 years later?"

Regardless, I hope Franklyn Ajaye returns.
posted by rhizome at 12:38 PM on January 25, 2016


Yay! Even if we don't know if it's gonna be awful. Or as Al would say, "Day saw advances, Trixie. None miraculous."
posted by craven_morhead at 12:39 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


If they do twenty years on, they won't have Al Swearengen or Dan. Or Trixie, likely.

There's many ways Deadwood can end, in fire, in a ditch, but it's not with happy ever fucking afters for all the players.
posted by bonehead at 12:44 PM on January 25, 2016


I really hope they focus entirely on the theater troupe.
posted by bondcliff at 12:48 PM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


qaStaHvIS wa' ram loSSaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD
posted by Splunge at 12:50 PM on January 25, 2016


Happy f'n ever- no. It is exactly what we have today. Swearingen's great grandson is running for president.

I had a couple of take aways, one being, the clever use of the f-word and others, cut the cost of scriptwriting by half. Then I have never had a more crisp, clear American history lesson.
posted by Oyéah at 12:52 PM on January 25, 2016


Oh, snap. Hell. To the Yes.
posted by Bob Regular at 12:57 PM on January 25, 2016


I have told my god to ready for blood.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 1:01 PM on January 25, 2016 [7 favorites]


Swearingen's great grandson is running for president.

"Be in my joint in two hours, we're forming a fuckin' government."
posted by nubs at 1:08 PM on January 25, 2016 [7 favorites]


If they do twenty years on, they won't have Al Swearengen

Ugh what an awful thought. You could replace just about anyone in that show in a pinch, but not McShane as Swearengen. That wouldn't even be Deadwood anymore.
posted by Hoopo at 1:18 PM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


Me! Deadwood! Hang dai!
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 1:20 PM on January 25, 2016 [4 favorites]


Swearingen's great grandson is running for president.

The twist is, it's John Kasich.
posted by Naberius at 1:28 PM on January 25, 2016


But it won't be the same without Richardson.
posted by carmicha at 1:33 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


So, I have never seen Deadwood. I liked Firefly. Twin Peaks scared me so I couldn't sleep. Based on those limited preference indicators, should I see this show?
posted by epanalepsis at 1:51 PM on January 25, 2016


Hey remember how awesome Carnivale looked like it was gonna become right when it was cancelled?
posted by tittergrrl at 1:59 PM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


For my money, one of the most terrifying and gruesome things in the original run was the passing of a bladder stone.
posted by bonehead at 2:06 PM on January 25, 2016 [7 favorites]


Of all the "you must watch this" prestige TV that has come out over the past two decades, Deadwood is my favorite. I fell in love with Calamity Jane right off -- because I had never seen a female character like her on TV before. And then over time, I fell in love with pretty much everyone. Except Bullock and Alma. But it's an astounding feat of writing to take an audience from hating Al Swearengen to rooting for him by the end. This was a show that was all about character development, despite the very heightened language.

I never was able to get into The Wire (I know, I know, I know) or Breaking Bad. Mad Men was something I liked but didn't care deeply about. But I adored Deadwood. I should do a re-watch. Would folks be up for that on fanfare?

And I really hope this movie doesn't suck.
posted by JustKeepSwimming at 2:10 PM on January 25, 2016 [7 favorites]


I really can't see a two hour movie doing justice to the 36 hours that represented the series. That we were denied an ending was more than sad, but this really looks to be a final Hollywood cash grab, and I'm not optimistic.
posted by eas98 at 2:13 PM on January 25, 2016


So, I have never seen Deadwood. I liked Firefly. Twin Peaks scared me so I couldn't sleep. Based on those limited preference indicators, should I see this show?

Depends. Do you like a show about how encroaching civilization impacts a community, with effects both benign and corrosive? Can you handle a foul-mouthed brothel owner who might just be the moral center of the show? Will repeated uses of the words "fuck", "cocksucker", "pussy" and "hooplehead" add to your experience or make you nauseous?
posted by nubs at 2:14 PM on January 25, 2016 [4 favorites]


So, I have never seen Deadwood. I liked Firefly. Twin Peaks scared me so I couldn't sleep. Based on those limited preference indicators, should I see this show?

Eh, just watch the first several episodes and know that however despicable you find the character of Al Swearingen, you might be rooting for him (despite him remaining a nasty piece of work).
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:26 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


This succeeds, HBO, what you're trying to work out here, I will doff hat to you and no fucking mistake.
posted by entropicamericana at 2:33 PM on January 25, 2016 [2 favorites]


Greatest show ever. Watched it all the way through 7 times. A friend once asked me how many characters I could name in 5 minutes. Got to 77 before I ran out of time, including Crop Ear, Barney, Persimmon Phil, Rainbow the Trout, Slippery Dan, Pasco, and the guy who is not the fine man you took him to be.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 2:54 PM on January 25, 2016 [6 favorites]


Just get through the first episode. It was jarring to me. Then let the Social Studies and History lessons begin, my pretty.
posted by Oyéah at 3:02 PM on January 25, 2016


Was it the, "FUCK. YEWWWWWWWWWWWW!"?
posted by rhizome at 3:05 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


Yep, greatest show ever. Three times through the entire series. Once by myself, once with an old girlfriend, once introducing the wife to it. I'm sure there will be a fourth time before this movie.
posted by chris24 at 3:05 PM on January 25, 2016


I met Ian McShane as a kid while they were filming Lovejoy at my house: that show left such a deep and abiding impression on me that watching Deadwood has always seemed strangely blasphemous, like seeing a drunk relative swear at the vicar during evensong.
posted by bebrogued at 3:11 PM on January 25, 2016 [9 favorites]


Big ole ball of dope!
posted by clavdivs at 3:12 PM on January 25, 2016


I fell in love with Calamity Jane right off -- because I had never seen a female character like her on TV before.

Or since, and ditto! My favorite moment in the entire series is this very brief Calamity Jane bit. (Warning: Language. Which should probably go without saying with any Deadwood clip.)

I can't understand why Robin Weigert keeps getting relegated to very minor supporting roles in really popular shows. (Sons of Anarchy, Jessica Jones, others I can't name right now.) She's so, so good in Deadwood.
posted by mudpuppie at 3:16 PM on January 25, 2016 [15 favorites]


I'm recycling a comment I made on an earlier Deadwood thread:

I pretty much liked the show from the first episode, but I really got hooked when I saw E.B. deliver a straight-up soliloquy while scrubbing the floor of one of his rooms.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 3:42 PM on January 25, 2016 [6 favorites]


I pretty much liked the show from the first episode, but I really got hooked when I saw E.B. deliver a straight-up soliloquy while scrubbing the floor of one of his rooms.

Technically, that soliloquy was wrong for using certain curse words that weren't in usage at the time, but directors used that take because it was so damn good. Just a great scene.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:55 PM on January 25, 2016


Poor Cy, always in Al's shadow. I guess nobody quotes Tolliver because his lines generally rate among the show's most repugnant, but I've always loved the exchange between him and Cochran re: care of the Chinese whores.

"I would see to those others pro bono."
"I know what that means. Prove to me you do."

Ad fucking hoc. Free fucking gratis. Did they speak that way then?
posted by Lorin at 3:59 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


Technically, that soliloquy was wrong for using certain curse words that weren't in usage at the time, but directors used that take because it was so damn good. Just a great scene.

The whole show uses curse words not in use at the the time because the curse words actually in use back then would seem very tame by today's standards. So Milch et al used modern vulgarities to convey the real feel and intent the words needed to express.
posted by chris24 at 4:02 PM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


paper chromatographologist: Oh, there was going to be a lot more going on than just a Hearst-ageddon. I remember an interview with Olyphant wherein he was unhappy that there wasn't going to a 4th season because of the wonderous preliminary scripts and boards he had seen. A brief perusal of Seth Bullock's actual history should convince you.
posted by Chitownfats at 4:12 PM on January 25, 2016


I should say curse words not as commonly used back then rather than not in use at all. Fuck and cocksucker were used, but religiously blasphemous curses were more common than today's more sexualized curses.
posted by chris24 at 4:17 PM on January 25, 2016


chris24: By the bloody menses of St. Agatha, I believe you!
posted by Chitownfats at 4:36 PM on January 25, 2016 [2 favorites]


I fell in love with Calamity Jane right off -- because I had never seen a female character like her on TV before.

Well that clip is probably ok historically, so I've got a family story. Jane came through the small town of my grandfather lived. She slept in the school yard and was the dirtiest woman anyone had ever seen. That's all.

The grandiose fantasy shooting and violence of the films like the Hateful Eight are really just as historically accurate as Johnny Depp's portrayal of an indian native american. (bullets were expensive) Cow hands or cowpokes were really just working stiffs that worked hard. ("Cowboys" really only existed in print in a Connecticut authors imagination) I'll have to put Deadwood on my binge list, see if it makes me less annoyed.
posted by sammyo at 4:49 PM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


I think some of you are misreading Swearengen's development.

David Milch, writer and executive producer, once said "You can't think your way to right action. You can only act your way to right thinking." I think he was paraphrasing Aristotle's Nichomachean (sp?) Ethics there. Roughly speaking, the idea is that the inner state of virtue isn't something that you just have or don't have. One behaves in a virtuous manner and over time the virtuous psyche develops as a result. (Fake it 'til you make it?)

Swearengen starts off as a right, fucking evil bastard but, as the town grows, his own self-interest demands that he behave more and more virtuously. Eventually, he's instrumental in getting some kind of civil government going - not because he's suddenly a good guy but because it's the natural counterbalance to outside forces, and it protects his interests. And as this goes on, circumstances conspire to make him a better and better man. He acts his way to "right thinking."
posted by kaymac at 4:57 PM on January 25, 2016 [14 favorites]


I guess nobody quotes Tolliver because his lines generally rate among the show's most repugnant

True, but it doesn't stop everyone. Whenever I text this one friend that I'm running x minutes late, he replies back, "A man might use that time to put some stink on his Johnson."
posted by Beardman at 5:00 PM on January 25, 2016 [15 favorites]


Exactly one of the lines I had in mind. His delivery on that makes my skin crawl! As intended I guess.
posted by Lorin at 5:05 PM on January 25, 2016




Tolliver works great as a demonstration of how bad Al isn't.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:11 PM on January 25, 2016 [4 favorites]


I guess nobody quotes Tolliver because his lines generally rate among the show's most repugnant

I have used "If he hadn't meant me to wag it, sir, why would the Lord give me a tail?" on more than one occasion as a way of explaining to my girlfriend why I'd just done something otherwise inexplicable. She finds this mostly charming.

I am dangerously susceptible to unconsciously picking up speech patterns when I binge-watch shows (I can't watch Bob's Burgers in bulk because Gene's speech-patterns are really easy for me to fall into). My friends like when I watch Deadwood, because I very quickly pick up the cadence, without the more, uh, "colorful" portions of the vocabulary.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 5:17 PM on January 25, 2016


sammyo: Silver City, New Mexico, Canyon Diablo, Arizona, Tombstone, Dodge City, et al. beg to differ.
posted by Chitownfats at 5:30 PM on January 25, 2016


E.B. Farnum for mayor! Seriously, I'm more excited for this than I thought would be possible.
posted by amelliferae at 5:31 PM on January 25, 2016


I think some of you are misreading Swearengen's development.

I think I might have misspoke or rather simplified what I originally intended -- which is it's a great feat of writing to go from loathing a specific character to coming around to agreeing with their point of view, even while recognizing that the character himself hasn't become an outstanding citizen. You're completely right -- Swearengen only acts in his own best interests. But much to my surprise, I found his best interests were aligned pretty easy to identify with as time passed. Something I would have never guessed early on.

Basically, I agree with you, even if I didn't originally write it that way.
posted by JustKeepSwimming at 6:06 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


The more I think about it the more I realize what a treasure Calamity Jane is in terms of female representation in entertainment. She's goodhearted, but incredibly flawed in ways that are normally only allowed in male characters. She's vaguely queer, but also not there for sex appeal. And she's allowed to fail and does so often. I think the show failed some of it's other female characters by making them a little too close to tropey, but Calamity Jane is fully realized in a lovely way.

And mudpuppie, that cocksuckers moment is FANTASTIC.
posted by JustKeepSwimming at 6:18 PM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


If you haven't checked them out previously, Alan Sepinwall did some masterful rewatch/reviews of Deadwood that included great comments from Jim Beaver (Ellsworth) that greatly enhanced my enjoyment of rewatching the show. I'll link Season 3, Episode 1 as a great representative here, but they are all fantastic
posted by Lame_username at 7:05 PM on January 25, 2016 [2 favorites]


I am overjoyed with the possibility of a Deadwood movie, although I will believe it when I see it. Deadwood is hands down the greatest show ever on television and I would even say it ranks as one of the great pieces of art of the last 100 years in any medium. That is how much I love this show. Time for my 6th rewatch!
posted by Falconetti at 7:14 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


Calamity Jane: I'm calling on the widow and the little one in her care, and if I was you I wouldn't try to stop me.
E.B.: Be brief!
Calamity Jane: Be fucked!
E.B.: Her gutter mouth, and the widow in an opium stupor: a conversation for the ages.




Oh Calamity Jane, Oh EB!
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:37 PM on January 25, 2016 [6 favorites]


Oh, there was going to be a lot more going on than just a Hearst-ageddon.

I agree. Just from the reading of town history, this was very likely a grand tragedy, centred on Al for the most part, which only made it to Act 2. Hurst has made heros of villains and built the town by counter to his actions. But Al has been threatening to burn the whole town down from the beginning.
posted by bonehead at 8:07 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


FUCK YA!

And I'm counting on Al Swearengen still being alive. An old fucker, yes — but fucking alive.
posted by chance at 8:29 PM on January 25, 2016


You know that Al Swearengen was a real guy, right? So we know whether or not he would still be alive?
posted by Justinian at 8:32 PM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


The whole show uses curse words not in use at the the time because the curse words actually in use back then would seem very tame by today's standards. So Milch et al used modern vulgarities to convey the real feel and intent the words needed to express.

I saw David Milch talk about this once. Basically most of the cursing centered around taking the lord's name in vain. The rest of it would be tame to our ears. Milch said if he had written it period-accurate it would have sounded like Yosemite Sam. Since the point was to be as offensive as it would have been at the time, he made the cursing more modern.
posted by nushustu at 8:48 PM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


POSSIBLE MOVIE SPOILERS AHEAD.

Also, my understanding is that the fourth (and final?) season was to center around a large number of horses that were in the care of Swearingen. They were supposed to have frozen during the winter, because he had cheaped out on blankets for them, or something. Somehow it lead to a fire (maybe to cover this up?) that ended up burning down much of the town.
posted by nushustu at 8:50 PM on January 25, 2016


Re: Al's evolution. In the third season, Swearengen became not only a defender of women and minorities, but a champion of freedom of the press.
posted by bcarter3 at 10:48 PM on January 25, 2016


You know that Al Swearengen was a real guy, right? So we know whether or not he would still be alive?

Well, I don't think the show's writers have constrained themselves to the actual lives of the historical characters, to date, so there's nothing stopping them from keeping them alive in the fictional world, at least nothing that bothers me.
posted by thelonius at 11:04 PM on January 25, 2016


Swearengen is the greatest character ever on TV.
posted by persona au gratin at 11:35 PM on January 25, 2016 [3 favorites]


Al Swearengen Pep Talk:

Swearengen: Why ain't you up and runnin' again?
Merrick: I'm in despair. The physical damage is repairable, but the psychic wound may be permanent.
Swearengen: You ever been beaten, Merrick?
Merrick: Once, when I thought I had the smallpox, Doc Cochran slapped me in the face.
[Swearengen slaps Merrick in the face]
Merrick: Stop it, Al.
Swearengen: Are you dead?
Merrick: Well, I'm in pain, but no, I'm obviously not dead.
Swearengen: Well, you obviously didn't fuckin' die when the doc slapped you.
Merrick: No.
Swearengen: So, includin' last night that's three fucking damage incidents that didn't kill ya. Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or fuckin' beatin's. 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 11:55 PM on January 25, 2016 [17 favorites]


Merrick: Stop it, Al.

I so love Merrick's delivery of "Stop it, Al!" here. So perfect. No fear of Swearengen, when fear would be anyone else's reaction. You can feel the years of friendship that are so lightly alluded to through the seasons.
posted by distorte at 12:27 AM on January 26, 2016 [1 favorite]


I loved Deadwood while it lasted. Given a few more seasons to develop, it may even have rivalled the depth and scope of The Wire.

There's a danger here that the uninitiated will think there was nothing more to Deadwood's dialogue than a bunch of swearing. In fact, there was a real poetry to the rhythm and arcane vocabulary which every character used. At its best, it was like finding yourself swept along by a great Shakespeare soliloquy and enjoying the music of the language as much its content.

That said, the line that's always stuck in my mind is the one that closes this scene.
posted by Paul Slade at 1:57 AM on January 26, 2016 [2 favorites]


I don't think that's anywhere near the best line from her
posted by thelonius at 4:06 AM on January 26, 2016 [1 favorite]


I'm fond of yelling or thinking about yelling when getting into a hot bath, "I burned my snatch!"

Don't know why that's so funny to me.
posted by angrycat at 5:22 AM on January 26, 2016 [2 favorites]


So many great lines in that show. Many of my favorites:

- Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?

- I find you to be the most severe disappointment of all. / Often, to myself as well.

- Pardon my french. / I speak french.

- I don't want my getting fucked to put others to inconvenience. (Stunning performance from Michael Harney.)

- I feel you breathing on my neck. / Shall I exhale out my ass? ... Take a beating. And know how it fucking feels to be helpless and have no one fucking stick up for you!

- There's a horse waiting for you outside you'll want to get on before somebody murders you who gives a fuck about right and wrong. Or I do.

- I see as much misery outta them movin' to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm.

- It must cost you sleep. The guests you drive off, the chances of thievin' and bilkin' you lose, needing to rub against your betters.

- Were you bullied, Mr. Bullock, when young and incapable? And now you see wrongs everywhere and bullying you feel called to remedy?

- Every bully I ever met couldn't shut his fuckin' mouth. Unless he was scared.

- Ain't gonna make you popular with your fellow white people. / Question I wake to in the morning and pass out with at night: "What's my popularity with my fellow white people?"

- I knew him by reputation as an earnest worker and a diligent believer in right and wrong. His memory I am sure will always be with those who knew and loved him, among whose number I imagine you as first.

- Swearengen's a cue and Farnum merely a billiard ball.

- Have I bled on your bed linens? / You wouldn't be the first.

- You can help your delicate sensibilities by turning the fuck away.

- We all get our portion. We don't have to draw it to us.

- You ought to pin that on your chest. You're hypocrite enough to wear it.

- Past hope. Past kindness or consideration. Past justice. Past satisfaction. Past warmth or cold or comfort. Past love. But past surprise? What an endlessly unfolding tedium life would then become.

- Allow me a moment's silence. I'm having a digestive crisis and must focus on repressing it's expression.

- I enjoy the way you lie.

- Let's say that's the case. / I just did. Now let's hear you say it.

- Save us! Think of something. / Have I ever not?

- Could you have been born, Richardson? And not egg-hatched as I've always assumed? Did your mother hover over you, snaggle-toothed and doting as you now hover over me? / I loved my mother. / Puberty may bring you to understand, what we take for mother love is really murderous hatred and a desire for revenge. ... I'd like to use your ointment to suffocate you.

- Leave this camp and draw a map for anyone who wants to believe your fucking lies. Anyone wants to put your daughter or her holdings in jeopardy, you show 'em how to get here. And you tell 'em I'll be waiting.

- When I say, "Go fuck yourself," will you put that down to drunkenness or a high estimate of your athleticism?

- He's not mad. / He's got a mean way of being happy.

- How stupid do you think I am? / I don't know. I just met you.

- Wrestle the fucking future to the ground.

- Every day takes figuring out again how to fucking live.

- What kind of many have I become? / I don't know. The day ain't over yet.

- You don't fuck the future. The future fucks you.

- Custer was a cunt. The end.

- When he ain't lyin', Al's the most honorable man you'll ever meet.

- You are reckless, madam. You indulge yourself.

This last one is from one of my favorite scenes in the show.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 7:20 AM on January 26, 2016 [7 favorites]




The grandiose fantasy shooting and violence of the films like the Hateful Eight are really just as historically accurate as Johnny Depp's portrayal of an indian native american. (bullets were expensive)

It didn't seem to me that all that many bullets got fired in Hateful 8 though? The ones they did fire were extra gross, but still. And the situations they were used in sorta didn't strike me as ones where a cost-benefit analysis was performed. There's no doubt a lot of reasons why Hateful 8 is not historically accurate and I doubt they were going for historical accuracy any more than they did for Inglorious Basterds, but "bullets were expensive" seems a sort of odd angle to pick out given the characters' respective professions and backgrounds and the context of the film.
posted by Hoopo at 8:38 AM on January 26, 2016 [1 favorite]


So we know whether or not he would still be alive?

People and history are already messed up. Alma is new, whole cloth, as is Sophie, her ward. Tolliver is a composite. Bullock never married his brother's widow. Wyatt Erp's timing in the series is a few years too late. Al was from Iowa and was raised by his parents. And so on.

Calamity Jane, though, by all accounts, is pretty close to life.

Milch put the story first, strict accuracy somewhere near the bottom of the list.
posted by bonehead at 8:39 AM on January 26, 2016 [1 favorite]


I would so be up for a rematch of Deadwood on Fanfare.
posted by culfinglin at 9:02 AM on January 26, 2016 [5 favorites]


Since the point was to be as offensive as it would have been at the time, he made the cursing more modern.

Deadwood was not above the occasional meta comment, either:
E.B. Farnum: Some ancient Italian maxim fits our situation, whose particulars escape me.
Francis Wolcott: Is the gist that I'm shit out of luck?
E.B. Farnum: Did they speak that way then?
posted by entropicamericana at 10:37 AM on January 26, 2016 [5 favorites]


I'm fond of yelling or thinking about yelling when getting into a hot bath, "I burned my snatch!"

Don't know why that's so funny to me.
In our house, we have a big tub in the master bath, and in the winter my wife and I frequently take Epic Baths therein, replete with wine, snacks, books, and (sometimes) cats.

Nearly every time, the second person to arrive to the tub will ask the first whether or not the water will burn our snatch, and I'm not sure if we find it funnier when the speaker has or lacks said snatch.

Long live Jane.
posted by uberchet at 10:38 AM on January 27, 2016 [1 favorite]


You just reminded me how much I love the term "cuntstruck" to describe a man who can't think of anything but pussy.
posted by Paul Slade at 4:28 AM on January 28, 2016


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