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Deadwood
Season 3
SERIES: HBO, Sunday 9:00p (60 minutes)


9.1

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Starring Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Kim Dickens, and Brad Dourif

This final season of HBO's profanity-laden western will be followed by two movies that will wrap up the various storylines.

GENRE(S):	Western
CREATED BY:	David Milch
FIRST AIR DATE:	June 11, 2006

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100

New York Post Adam Buckman

Its scripts - always among the finest on TV - are even stronger this time around.

100

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

Milch's darkly hilarious exploration of the American frontier spirit is back for a third season of twisted human conniving.

100

New York Daily News David Hinckley

The language, the acting, the themes - everything in "Deadwood" is good as gold. In TV entertainment terms, maybe even better.

100

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

This series is one of a kind.

100

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

To call "Deadwood" great television doesn't begin to do it justice.

100

Slant Magazine Keith Uhlich

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.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

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.

The New Yorker Nancy Franklin

A gorgeously living thing.

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

The series returns with its creative six-shooters blazing, its florid language and baroque manner of storytelling still gloriously riveting.

USA Today Robert Bianco

For all the artificiality of the language, there has seldom been a show that felt more authentic.

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

Like last season, the plots are thick and quick-flying. (Also like last season, the abstruseness can sometimes feel showy.)

TV Guide Matt Roush

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.

Variety Brian Lowry

"Deadwood" remains a series like none other.

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

The third season, as much as the two preceding ones, continues to breathe new life and vigor into the Western genre. What's more, the actors have become so comfortable in the skins of their characters, we can now appreciate the complexity of their personalities and desires.

Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield

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.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

[A] fascinating, challenging series.

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

As it lurches to its conclusion, the politics of "Deadwood" keep growing more dense and colorful, and that magnificent obsession crowds out other primal forces.

New York Magazine John Leonard

What makes Deadwood so fascinating is not the action we put up with; it’s the language we listen to.

Time James Poniewozik

It's worth hopping on this poetic, profane story of frontier money lust before it rides into the sunset.

Newsday Verne Gay

Yes, "Deadwood" was incomprehensible last season. It is incomprehensible this season. Fans will be delighted.

The average user rating for this tv show is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 77 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
Will remain a favorite of mine for years to come. Fabulously written, flawlessly executed, but laid to rest long before it's time. I would have loved to have seen another season or a TV movie after it's cancellation in order to complete the story properly, in the manner the series deserved.

Brian L gave it a10:
Not just one of the best television series of all time, but rather one of the best exercises in narrative form across all mediums.

Cody E. gave it a10:
Greatest series ever on Television. People at HBO were absolute idiots to have stopped it. Was the best ever.

Dan B. gave it a10:
Brilliant. Whole dang show was. Dialogue was incredibly inventive and often hilarious, and there's a history lesson or ten in there, somewhere. Shame there won't be more seasons, nor two wrap-up films as originally promised.

Rejean R. gave it a10:
Best series I've watched, ever. Great script, wonderful dialogues, fantastic actors, superb art direction.

Daniel gave it a10:
Best damn show on TV! HBO needs to bring it back!

Drew P gave it a10:
The casting, acting, and writing on this show are second to none. The way the story was told and the interweaving storylines were incredible, and the fact that HBO cancelled the best show on television just kills me. Not to mention the fact that they are now attempting to back out of the 2 hour movies to conclude the series, this is an absolute disgrace to one of the best shows in the history of television.

Deadwood Season 3 SERIES: HBO, Sunday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Deadwood
Season 3
SERIES: HBO, Sunday 9:00p (60 minutes)