Shakespeare with cusses

HBO's Deadwood was an amazing show. I can't come up with a single flaw. It redefined the western genre in my opinion. It showed the American frontier as an even harsher wasteland than the Leone's, Peckinpah's, Ford's, & even the Eastwood's ever did. The town of Deadwood as shown in the TV series was uncompromising in it's brutality. The land was cold and harsh, rich with gold but hell to get it out. The people of the town would rather shoot ya than look at ya. The worst of what America had to offer had settled there. Deadwood was a pot ready to boil over.

A lot of westerns showed the west as cruel and unforgiving especially those of Peckinpah and Leone, but what they never did was use language like this show did. It's use of some of the most eloquent prose of the past century mixed with the most vile disgusting language to spew out of anybodies mouth made the shown truly unique. It made the west even more real, even though I've heard a lot of complaints from history snobs saying people back then didn't really use words like fuck and cunt. I don't care, it makes for good television.

One of the stand out scenes of the series was from season one. It's shows the show's main antagonist Al Swearengen explaining how he came to bea nd reveals his childhood all while getting a blowjob. Ian McShane is so briliant here. It takes something that would become the focus in most other situation, the blowjob, and makes it almost incedental. As a viewer you forget there's fellatio happening because your so caught up in the performance, but what make it great is the moment in the scene where you realize he's been delivering this amazing speech all while getting a blowjob. At the end of the episode you have to take a moment to realize what you just watched and great it truly was.

Deadwood was and is amazing.

Laters,

Dan "The Man"

P.S. The one thing that does suck about Deadwood and its not the show's fault is that the DVD's are so expensive. $80 a pop. I got the entire series in one go thanks to a great deal on amazon. It came out to about half price for each season. Well worth it in my opinion. Thank you amazon.com.