Ask The A.V. Club - March 28, 2008

by The A.V. Club staff
March 28th, 2008

Alas, Poor Deadwood, We Knew You

These all regard original HBO series. They should all be quickies, so I figured I'd lump them together.

1) Whatever happened to the Deadwood movies that were promised as a way to wrap up the series properly? It seems like an eternity ago that the last season of Deadwood ended.

2) Somewhat related—is there any way now that I can find out at least what was going to happen on John From Cincinnati in the future? It was a pretty trippy show, so I'd like to at least know what the deal was with John and whatnot.

3) In regards to Tell Me You Love Me—How is it that HBO can't/doesn't show sex acts, but can show them via props that look completely realistic? What kind of weird censorship rules are they skirting when you can't show an erection, but you can show a completely realistic depiction of an erection?

4) I've not watched either of them much, because they bored me to tears—but Tell Me You Love Me is the exact same show as In Treatment, right? Minus aforementioned props and plus Gabriel Byrne. It annoys me that good shows like Deadwood and Rome get canceled early so they can repeat the same humdrum show twice!

Thanks, A.V. Club!

Schmapdi

 

Kyle Ryan does not wish to get took for a duckling:

Deadwood's frustratingly anticlimactic final episode first aired on Aug. 27, 2006, so yeah, two years does roughly equal an eternity in TV time. But with HBO, where a new episode of Flight Of The Conchords won't air until 2009—not to mention the interminable breaks between Sopranos seasons—it's par for the course. I'm afraid, though, Deadwood's time has passed. Although creator David Milch was apparently writing the films at the beginning of 2007, the project was supposedly scrapped by the time the writers' strike rolled around. No less an authority than Al Swearengen himself—a.k.a. Ian McShane—