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- HBO
- Jun 11, 2006
- HBO
- Jun 11, 2006
Summary In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American History draws a throng of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything - and everyone - has a price. Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune. From Executive Producer David Milch ("NYPD Blue") comes DEADWOOD, a new drama series that focus...
Created By: David Milch
- HBO
- Jun 11, 2006
- HBO
- Jun 11, 2006
Summary In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American History draws a throng of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything - and everyone - has a price. Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune. From Executive Producer David Milch ("NYPD Blue") comes DEADWOOD, a new drama series that focus...
Created By: David Milch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
85
95% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Milch has a keen eye for his actors' untapped resources--he doesn't so much cast against physical types as he does psychological ones--and this is what makes Deadwood's expansive ensemble so continually exciting to watch.
Milch's darkly hilarious exploration of the American frontier spirit is back for a third season of twisted human conniving.
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93% Positive
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3% Mixed
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 146 User Ratings
9.1
93% Positive
136 Ratings
136 Ratings
3% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
4% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Tell Your God To Ready For Blood A-.
I Am Not The Fine Man You Take Me For A-.
True Colors B+. Full Faith And Credit B+.
A Two Headed Beast A. A Rich Find B+.
Unauthorized Cinnamon B+.
Leviathan Smiles B+. Amateur Night A-.
A Constant Throb A. The Catbird Seat A.
Tell Him Something Pretty A-.
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SEASON 3
Every scene teems with an enthralling, fully realized vision of life, the kind of jostling pageant of humanity in the most satisfying works of Dickens or Trollope.
Like last season, the plots are thick and quick-flying. (Also like last season, the abstruseness can sometimes feel showy.)
The dialogue is "Deadwood's" calling card, with its mixture of gutter and Elizabethan grace. It layers Milch's broader, working theme -- the coming-together of various organisms to create a single, functioning one.
The circuitous plot is challenging, but the true glory of Deadwood is in its vivid creation of a volatile world where scoundrels, wretches and tormented heroes coexist in an unvarnished time capsule of Wild West history.
Yes, "Deadwood" was incomprehensible last season. It is incomprehensible this season. Fans will be delighted.
This is for the whole series.
I really do wish the series lasted more then three years, but then again maybe it would have declined and been a mockery of itself if it had.
Set in the town of Deadwood in 1876 where it tells the tale of the town going from open frontier with gold strikes, and how the people living there got along. Fun side note, many of the characters in the series were there in real life (and by default are real people).
No, it isn't a documentary, yes it is full of violence and sex (and let's be honest, it doesn't stay too close to the truth either). It starts with following Timothy Olyphant (of Justified fame) as he arrives in town. Then it truly becomes a full ensemble cast with Brad Dourif playing the Doc, Ian McShane playing Al Swearengen, Molly Parker as Alma Garrett and even Keith Carradine as the doomed Wild Bill Hickok.
There are a ton of other famous or semi-famous actors and actresses you will see, but there are so many I can't really list them all.
The show is as good as it sounds. The acting is superb. By the third season the actors play off each other with just a word or a motion. There was so much put into each character that you could read what they were thinking and they could sometimes have conversations with each other that were in depth without more then a few words.
The filming was good, and the direction as well obviously. I am saddened that so many people have not seen it. I was especially impressed that **** didn't play a bigger role, after all that is what most westerns are unfortunately built upon. Not saying that some things didn't happen, but for what the show was (the Sopranos in the old west) it stayed away from that most of the time.
The only thing I thought hurt the show was bringing in Powers Boothe and his whole crew. Not that there weren't good stories, and definitely not because of Mr. Boothe (he is great), but it took away from main characters in the beginning. While I started watching the show for Mr. Olyphant, I ended the show with Ian McShane (Swearengen) as my favorite character.
Pros: Great acting, directing, story and sets.
Cons: Perhaps too many secondary stories and plots and too many characters by mid-second season.
Now to find some more Ian McShane work.
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SEASON 3
This show is overrated and no wonder it was cancelled. The only people who get some type of sick entertainment out of this are misogynists. I agree with a previous poster on here,the show portrays all women as ****, easy without a sign of intellect. Personally am disappointed with Ian McShane , a very talented actor who has somehow been brainwashed into producing this tripe. Oh and before I'm labelled a prude on here, which I could care less, I've seen my share of profanity , violence and sleaze, but this show is way too much and deserved to be put off the air.
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