deadwood

[Yer_Maw]

amazin. top notch writing, every line choca full of imagery and hidden meaning. (david milch is nuts, check out some interviews). lovejoy is brilliant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/615000/images/_618119_ian_mcshane300.jpg

just watched s3e6 and i was actually getting to into supporting dan in his fight. mazin stuff.

anyone else into it?

[Paddy]

only seen two episodes but i liked what i saw. hope channel four get it on soon, cos i can only get it on sky travel and it seems to be a little bit sporadic.

[spoon]

it's the best thing on tv ever methinks. that fight was fucking out there, brutal!

i love it.

[nempsey]

i'm working through the dvds of series 1 at the mo....you fuckin cocksuckers should start from the fucking beginning like me.

the writing is excellent and so is almost all of the acting. please don;t tell me what's happening as i like doing it in order! cocksuckers.

[spoon]

san francisco cocksucker!

[thomas hooked]

i did a picture of ian mcshane
http://www.mrthomaswhitehead.co.uk/images/necspenecmetu.jpg

[spoon]

preview of tonights episode - http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=2863

wyatt earp?

@thomashooked: that's rocking my desktop at the moment, looks great and confuses everybody. i don't know why he's dressed as lord fauntelroy and i don't want to. cheers :)

[Yer_Maw]

gots it downloaded ready to watch tonight. bullocks manouvering was genius in the last episode.

so glad this is the last season, and have some closure, unlike the sopranos which is going to continue for fucking ever

[nempsey]

deadwood is infinitely better than sopranos...

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Lovejoy was good in Sexy Beast too.

[Yer_Maw]

deadwood is infinitely better than sopranos...

defo. but i think its kind of the successor. The sopranos is well written, but still has to have the bangs and stuff and at least be a bit obvious at times - deadwood doesnt make it easy at all. how milch gets away with this, and the money to do it, is amazing

[nempsey]

it's amazin. i was watching series 1 ep 11 last night and ian mcshane had an actual bona fide big shakespearean style soliloquy - while getting a blowjob. its up there with dennis potter a lot of the time.

mind you it can be patchy - but thats cos american dramas have to have so many eps.

[spoon]

there's going to be one or two feature length deadwoods after this series to tie everything up apparently.

[garew]

Deadwood is great and smarter than the Sopranos, but the Sopranos suck me in. I can't get enough of that show.

[Orang Utan]

only seen two episodes but i liked what i saw. hope channel four get it on soon, cos i can only get it on sky travel and it seems to be a little bit sporadic.


Fraid not Paddy

[spoon]

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there's about two funny bits in this 5 minute skit, fans of the show will find both of them amusing.

[spoon]

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the show itself is way funnier!

[penciLneck]

it's amazin. i was watching series 1 ep 11 last night and ian mcshane had an actual bona fide big shakespearean style soliloquy - while getting a blowjob. its up there with dennis potter a lot of the time.

mind you it can be patchy - but thats cos american dramas have to have so many eps.

I watched that one last night as well strangely enough. I think it may be patchy because they have a different director and writer every episode.

Finished watching the first series and am totally hooked. thanks spoon.

[garew]

I read an interview with Milch in american heritage mag. He says deadwood is about order developing from choas and he was going to set the show in Rome, but they came out with ..Rome. A different show on hbo. He said the way people talk on the show is authentic. People had more regional accents cause of the lack of mass media and all people knew was the kings james bible and shakespeare. He mentioned a book called the American language and he also read lots of correspondence letters between common folk. Like one miner writing to his brother. etc...

[spoon]

Finished watching the first series and am totally hooked. thanks spoon.

cool, i'm glad you like MY show!

[Yer_Maw]

thought it was my thread :...(

[bigus]

i've been watching season 3 on demand(like tivo,or cable) its bloody brilliant. i want to see the 1st two seasons.last nights episode was a doozy
also i saw timothy olaphant(sp) the other day just down the road but i think ive mentioned that in another thread.HBO kicks arse

[Yer_Maw]

i saw brian cox in edinburgh yesterday. anyone for tenuous?

[penciLneck]

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[Patrick]

anyone for tenuous?
http://www.stfrancis.edu/livinghistory/images/tennis1951.jpg

[garew]

That pancakes vid made me piss myself.

[spoon]

That pancakes vid made me piss myself.


haha! i want to speak like that!

hang dai fuckin' wu.

[adsr]

Watched the first 4 episodes and it's great!!...I love it and now I'm hooked.

[garew]

Get Fuckin!!

[spoon]

watched the last episode last night - all i can say is that i hope to fuck they get those feature lengths made or it will have been a serious anticlimax even though season 3 was still utterly fantastic. it'll be a while before something like that comes along again, if ever.

i'm going to rewatch the whole thing!

[penciLneck]

yeah. I was a little disappointed with the whole of season two, it only seemed to really pick up again by the end of season 3 and then the last ep, was like ok, no apocalypse?

missing it already.

[Yer_Maw]

yeah, im getting rather sick of HBOs inability to finish things. still good though.

[spoon]

yeah, no big massive war, maybe that would have been too easy. it was great though with sy tolliver going completely insane (finally) and al's moment of tension in the room with hearst - fucking hell, it was good.

still some story left though, fingers crossed!

[spoon]

just in case anyone's wondering...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_%28TV_series%29#Cance llation
On May 13, 2006, HBO confirmed it has opted not to pick up the options of the actors, which were set to expire on June 11, 2006. This means that there will likely be no fourth season with the current cast as it stands, though HBO has stressed that the show is not cancelled and talks regarding its future are ongoing. The chance of the show returning in its current state of cast and crew, however, is small. [1]

On June 5, 2006, HBO and creator David Milch agreed to have two two-hour telefilms in place of a fourth season, after Milch declined a short-order of 6 episodes. This is because in the show's original form, each season was only a few days, with each episode being one day, in the town of Deadwood. The final two-hour format will release these time restraints and allow for a broader narrative to finish off the series.[2]

[Yer_Maw]

ja. but milch is working on something else though, so it was either cancelled or he got fed up.

fair enough with specials. but theyve done it with the sopranos too, and all it does is make the last series rather strange without any conclusion. milking bastardos.

[penciLneck]

I loved all the monty pythonesque characters. there were quite a few excellent bit parters just there for the comedy value. It was also a nice twist to introduce two even more evil characters, Tolliver and Hurst after thinking Al was as evil as you could get. Hurst in the end won the prize of most worthy of carrying a pitchfork, while Al showed some hidden fluffyness.

[Yer_Maw]

yeah that was a well done. how good someone is is defined by the more evil people in the town, not by how good they are.

*SPOILER ALERT***





al's the good guy, but hed murder an innocent whore to protect trixie. Is that good? mon the milch relatavism. the fact is, the chinese, the gang (plus midget) and all the yankton troops are all still there. ok, he got what he wanted, but there still could be amassive war inre: election rigging

[spoon]

yeah, it takes a bit to slide into that realisation - you can't apply your own morals to that time and place, brilliant. they made al sick in the second series because he was taking over the show and they had to ease off and allow the other characters to develop, that's where it all shifted around and became clearer i think (bullock=borderline psychotic, al=ruthless but principled etc).

[spoon]

I loved all the monty pythonesque characters. there were quite a few excellent bit parters just there for the comedy value.

yeah, your man who gets kicked in the head by the horse - priceless justice!

[garew]

Very good Milch interview (http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/3/2006_3_50.shtml)

[adsr]

Just watched two more episodes and it's official
the character Montana is pretty good looking...:)

[Paddy]

sat through the entire 12 hours of season one in a single sitting last sunday. loved every minute of it.

[adsr]

woo-hoo!!..
will be getting Disc One - Season 3 today!!.

I'm super looking forward to this!!..

[Lighter Thief]

Just watched this from start to finish. Fucking brilliant - gutted there's no more!

[bigus]

Just watched this from start to finish. Fucking brilliant - gutted there's no more!

:) I envy your free time.

[nempsey]

it is about the best thing on telly. whoda thought lovejoy could be so good