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Deadwood: season 3, episode 10-12
"A Constant Throb"/"The Catbird Seat"/"Tell Him Something Pretty"
September 9, 2009 - 12:09p.m.
An ending. That’s the thing that Deadwood is missing in the eyes of most serious TV fans, the thing that might put it on that top tier of TV dramas with The Wire and The Sopranos and assorted others ...
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Deadwood: season 3, episode 7-9
"Unauthorized Cinnamon"/"Leviathan Smiles"/"Amateur Night"
September 2, 2009 - 12:09p.m.
Episode 31. “Unauthorized Cinnamon.”
Someday, you’re going to die. I probably will too.
I know that you don’t really believe this, deep down. I know I don’t. I know that each and every one of us, no ... -
Deadwood: season 3, episode 5-6
"A Two-Headed Beast"/"A Rich Find"
August 26, 2009 - 04:08p.m.
Episode 29. “A Two-Headed Beast.”
Deadwood doesn’t really do iconic. It has a number of great setpieces, but it’s as much known for its subversion of traditional Western tropes and expectations as anything else. Which is why one ...
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Deadwood: season 3, episode 3-4
"True Colors"/"Full Faith and Credit"
August 19, 2009 - 04:08p.m.
Episode 27. “True Colors.”
If the first two episodes of Deadwood’s third season functioned mostly as a prologue to what was to come, closing with that awful scene showing what Hearst was truly capable of, then “True Colors” is ...
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Deadwood: season 3, episode 1-2
"Tell Your God to Ready for Blood"/"I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For"
August 12, 2009 - 12:08p.m.
Episode 25. “Tell Your God to Ready for Blood.”
Deadwood’s third season is very, very good. And yet …
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Deadwood: season 2, episode 11-12
"The Whores Can Come"/"Boy the Earth Talks To"
August 5, 2009 - 12:08p.m.
Episode 23. “The Whores Can Come.”
Both Jane and Johnny have procured new boots. Both intend to wear them to the funeral of young William Bullock, being laid to rest today. There’s some discussion of whether it’s acceptable ...
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Deadwood: season 2, episode 9-10
"Amalgamation and Capital"/"Advances, None Miraculous"
July 29, 2009 - 12:07p.m.
Episode 21. “Amalgamation and Capital.”
I almost wrote about “Amalgamation and Capital” and “Advances, None Miraculous” as one unit, as I did the two-part season premiere. Like those two episodes, they take place over the course of one day, and ...
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Deadwood: season 2, episode 7-8
"E.B. Was Left Out"/"Childish Things"
July 22, 2009 - 12:07p.m.
Episode 19. “E.B. Was Left Out.”
"So including last night that's three fucking damage incidents that didn't kill you. Pain or damage don't end the world or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you ...
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Deadwood: season 2, episode 5-6
"Complications (Formerly Difficulties)"/"Something Very Expensive"
July 15, 2009 - 12:07p.m.
Episode 5. “Complications (Formerly Difficulties).”
“Complications,” which involves a number of characters blossoming into their own, is about self-definition, about self-determination. It’s an episode about how we wish the world to see us and how we take steps to ...
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Deadwood: season 2, episode 3-4
"New Money"/"Requiem for a Gleet"
July 8, 2009 - 04:07p.m.
Episode 3. “New Money.”
“New Money” isn’t the best episode of Deadwood, but it’s one of the most important. In terms of the wheels it sets in motion for the future of the show, it’s damn near ...
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Deadwood: season 2, episode 1-2
"A Lie Agreed Upon, Parts 1 and 2"
July 1, 2009 - 12:07p.m.
To me, the second season of Deadwood is the greatest achievement of the televisual form. As far as sheer consistency of quality, there are a few seasons that can match it (the fourth and fifth seasons of The Simpsons, perhaps ...
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Deadwood: season 1, episode 10-12
"Mister Wu"/"Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking"/"Sold Under Sin"
June 24, 2009 - 12:06p.m.
Episode 10. “Mister Wu.”
It’s tempting to just write about the final three episodes of Deadwood’s first season as one unit. In many ways, they’re the most cohesively plotted episodes as a story unit, presenting three central ...
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Deadwood: season 1, episode 7-9
"Bullock Returns to the Camp"/"Suffer the Little Children"/"No Other Sons or Daughters"
June 17, 2009 - 05:06p.m.
Episode 7. “Bullock Returns to the Camp.”
“Bullock Returns to the Camp” is somewhat instructive about something that makes Deadwood feel like Deadwood: It’s the only episode in the series’ run to take place not over the course of ...
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Deadwood: season 1, episode 4-6
"Here Was a Man"/"The Trial of Jack McCall"/"Plague"
June 10, 2009 - 04:06p.m.
Episode 4. “Here Was a Man.”
For much of its running time, the “man” of the episode title seems to refer to poor, dead Brom Garrett, whose death sends ripples throughout the community and begins to bring its people together ...
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Deadwood: season 1, episode 1-3
"Deadwood"/"Deep Water"/"Reconnoitering the Rim"
June 3, 2009 - 02:06p.m.
Before we start this insane attempt to blog all of Deadwood over the course of one summer, I thought it best to make room for some general introductions to the course work, as it were. There will be a couple ...
