In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
Savage men who disagree beat each other’s brains in. “Civilized” men who disagree send proxies to beat each other’s brains in.
Among hardcore Deadwood fans, a discussion of favorite characters could go back and forth for hours.
The story of the Ellsworth/Alma/Bullock love triangle is being told almost entirely in subtle looks and body language.
By episode’s end, the political speeches postponed by Al in the season opener had taken place, but Al paid a price for his defiance.
Let us now praise the law.
It had to be one of the quickest seductions in the history of television.
In Deadwood, no one incident is isolated; it inevitably touches everyone and everything, reverberating throughout a community now readying itself for its first legal elections.
Robin Weigert has the unenviable task of now playing the most famous character on Deadwood.
The women of Deadwood are passionate, fully realized human beings.
In fighting off waves of melancholy over Deadwood’s premature demise, it’s helpful to reflect on the improbability of the show’s existence.
As Deadwood has acquired more and more of civilization’s trappings, Merrick has come increasingly to the fore.
Not with a bang…not even a whimper…it was more like a wet fart.
It goes without saying that if you’re a newcomer to Deadwood, every article appearing during Deadweek will contain spoilers galore.
Ellsworth thrives in Deadwood’s lethal landscape by peppering his encounters with a self-deprecating wit won over many terrains.
The richness of Deadwood puts every other TV drama to shame.
It’s strange to think of Deadwood as a life-affirming show, but it is.
HBO’s Deadwood, which begins its second season tonight, is the greatest dramatic series in the history of American television.
Often Lost’s greatest failing is the way it shoe-horns in extraneous flashbacks to pad-out the run-time.
Can’t you feel it all starting to crumble around them?
Miraculously, the second season of the show has stepped up to the Herculean task of making sense of so many bombshells