Deadwood

[blueerica]

I'm starting this early because I need something to keep me pumped tonight, especially since I'll be in my.. (gasp!).. dreaded programming class.

March 6th.


Will anyone other thank EH & I be watching?!

/drool

[Ghoulish Delight]

Grrr. I hadn't heard of this. Last night I saw the ad during the Oscars and thought, "Wow, this looks like an actual quailty TV show!" Little did I know that I was getting my hopes up for nothing since it's on HBO :(

[innerSpaceman]

It's for awesome! Can't wait till for the new season to start. It will be the only TV I watch (until the next Sopranos season starts).

That's right, GD. It is quality TV. And that's why the only two shows I watch at all are both on HBO.

[blueerica]

I'm quivering in anticipation of this next season. My eyes almost well up with tears, for good TV!! There's just too damn little of it... :blush:

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm quivering in anticipation of this next season. My eyes almost well up with tears, for good TV!! There's just too damn little of it... :blush:Tell me about it. And what is good gets canceled because it's not inane enough for the sheep to watch. I'm am going to mourn if Arrested Development doesn't make it. Fortunately Desperate Housewives seems to have legs. But that's about it in the way of TV for us other than the odd thing on Comedy Central. Our poor Replay is feeling very neglected.

[Stan4dSteph]

Will I be hopeless lost since I never watched Season 1? I have watched small parts of it before, but was always put off by the large amount of f-bombs being thrown around. It seemed to be a bit anachronistic to me.

[blueerica]

Fortunately Desperate Housewives seems to have legs.

And other parts...

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Rent it on Netflix if you can, GD. It's the best TV show in years. I think it's the best Western ever made. And it's worth it for Ian McShane's performance alone, though everyone on the show is amazing.

Plus, as my friend Mike likes to say, "Deadwood: Making C**T Safe for America".

The cussing is brilliant fun!

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[mousepod]

Will I be hopeless lost since I never watched Season 1? I have watched small parts of it before, but was always put off by the large amount of f-bombs being thrown around. It seemed to be a bit anachronistic to me.

They're going to run the first season one more time this week. Go to hbo.com for details. And get your TiVo (or DVR (PVR?) of your choice).

[blueerica]

I think people cussed back then, especially the "dirty rotten types" like the ones that cuss like crazy on the show... I think it's just a different view of the old west.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I think people cussed back then, especially the "dirty rotten types" like the ones that cuss like crazy on the show... I think it's just a different view of the old west.

Was this directed at me, E?

I just meant that it's rare for American television to hear the word c**t used so often. I'm well aware that cussing existed then, and in abundance. I just love the realism of the show. I read one reviewer who bristled at hinted lesbianism, saying that women wouldn't have done that then....etc.....WHAT? WHAT?! Morons. MORONS!

So, yeah. I just meant the show is incredibly unflinching and true to the time period it's about.

[Ghoulish Delight]

It was directed at Steph who said she felt the cussing was anachronistic.

cheap shot that I can't pass up because it's funny even thought I know it's cruel and totally not true: Do you need to write anachronistic down in your little notebook to look up later?

[blueerica]

Was this directed at me, E?

I just meant that it's rare for American television to hear the word c**t used so often. I'm well aware that cussing existed then, and in abundance. I just love the realism of the show. I read one reviewer who bristled at hinted lesbianism, saying that women wouldn't have done that then....etc.....WHAT? WHAT?! Morons. MORONS!

So, yeah. I just meant the show is incredibly unflinching and true to the time period it's about.

That's what Im'a sayin'!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

It was directed at Steph who said she felt the cussing was anachronistic.

cheap shot that I can't pass up because it's funny even thought I know it's cruel and totally not true: Do you need to write anachronistic down in your little notebook to look up later?

I thought I read through all the posts before I launched my defense, dammit.

Thanks, Greg. Also, SHUT UP GREG!

Whadda ZING! - Phooey you!

And, c'mon man. I deserve props for looking up those words and not just shrugging my shoulders and saying, "Eh, whatever. Just one word. Who cares?!"

Of course, when I had to look up, like, 3 words a page minimum when reading The Once and Future King , I really DID feel like a moron. Cause that was only last year.

[Ghoulish Delight]

And, c'mon man. I deserve props for looking up those words and not just shrugging my shoulders and saying, "Eh, whatever. Just one word. Who cares?!"
Hey, I'm not saying the cheap shot was in any way deserved. Thus the term "cheap shot". But when an opportunity for high grade humor like that presents itself...I'm all over it, even if it does need to come with disclaimers. :D

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Hey, I'm not saying the cheap shot was in any way deserved. Thus the term "cheap shot". But when an opportunity for high grade humor like that presents itself...I'm all over it, even if it does need to come with disclaimers. :D

Buddy, as Cordelia from Buffy once said, "A disclaimer is nobody's friend." And I would have found it just as funny, without any offense taken, if you'd just zinged me without one. I can certainly appreciate a good zing. And it did make me chuckle.

[Stan4dSteph]

I don't think cussing on its own is anachronistic, just the use of "fvck." Of course, I'm not an expert on the Old West, but I just think of this more as a modern favorite. My thought was that back then they would have had different "preferred words."

The constant use of fvck just seemed to take me out of the context, like I was just watching a bunch of modern actors in dirty vintage clothing playing dress up. I suppose I can give it another shot. :)

[innerSpaceman]

Fortunately, they use caulksuker far more often than they use fvck, and that lends a certain authenticity to the proceedings, as I see it.

[innerSpaceman]

Hahahaha - Swearengen and Bullock beat the living crap out of each other in the season opener! This show rocks!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I have to agree with IS, it DOES rock. What a great fist fight. What a great sex scene. Loved the formality between Bullock and Garrett before he grabbed her.

When Sol was shot, I actually believed he was dead and screamed out loud. I really thought he was a goner. I was all prepared to cry.

Wonderful, wonderful. I could not have asked for a better opener to the season. "Welcome to fvucking Deadwood." Indeed!

Best show on television right now.

Swearengen has kidney stones. LMFAO. Poor Al.

[innerSpaceman]

Hahaha, I can hardly wait to hear the cussfest that ensues when Al passes those stones!

And yeah, hubba, Seth and Alma hot sex following cold business. Yum.


(but I'm tempted to move this thread, because with the Deadwood Thread being in the Beatnik forum, I keep thinking "Deadbeat.")