I've not mentioned Wu, or my great affection for Doc Cochran, and am trying to overlook my lingering suspicion that Bullock is the weakest character in this fabulous drama. And Seth is charged with taking over Alma's affairs, which might hint at the conclusion of the series, though Parker's too good an actress to make anything inevitable.
Charlie and the hardware boys become closer, triggering the beginnings of what might, in a while, start to look like proto-civil society (the plague, and the response it demands, has a similar effect). Plotwise, Hickok's death facilitates a number of important developments. Hickok did die like this, just a month after arriving in the camp (there's quite a lot of licence, too, but more is true than you'd imagine – check out the real Seth Bullock's moustache, for instance.) A pause to applaud the music, a fabulously tense banjo riff (not a phrase one often writes), but also to note the extent to which Milch has kept his drama true to the real life characters who populated the real life Deadwood. It's a shocker, four episodes into a new series. So Swearengen didn't kill the little girl, the Bella Union has whooped into town, the dude is dead, Bullock and Star have built their hardware store. Keep a particular eye on Garret Dillahunt, as droop-eyed McCall – he'll be back as creepy Francis Wolcott in season two. Ellswood, Reverend Smith, Jack McCall – you might imagine, at this point, they were supporting parts, but they'll all be swinging centre stage. Did I mention Molly Parker's breathy, breathtaking Alma Garrett?īefore I leave the first episode, an observation. Mean old Swearengen (we don't get to like him for a couple of episodes yet), cheerful sidekick Sol Star, muscles Dan Dority, AW Merrick of the Deadwood Pioneer, damp-palmed EB Farnum, Doc, the Yankee doodle dandy.Īnd look, it's a woman with a speaking part, in feisty whore Trixie! (A small hurrah for Paula Malcolmson, who plays Trixie and is also – who knew? – from Belfast.) Out of interest, can I ask, are there many women among us? I dislike gendered arguments in general, and yet one gets the impression that westerns aren't usually made for women any more than 19th century frontier America was, (though there is some fascinating stuff to read about the real-life whores of the west).īut the women in this show are why I will always love it more than other programmes (no need to use the W-word) that I admire greatly.
It's only when you watch this again, by the way, that you get how skilfully the assorted moustaches are introduced. Nice teeth too.Īnd here in the stampede to the place with no law, "it's only Wild Bill Hickok you've got stuck here in the mud!" And that's only Calamity Jane, with the first of many C-words.
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And here's grumpy sheriff Seth Bullock, whose perfect Hollywood teeth will only irritate you more as three series progress, carrying out his last act as a lawman, hanging a crim before somebody else gets to hang him. Your insights solicited below, cocksuckers.Īnd so to Montana territory, May 1876. And hopefully you've been recapping on season one. This fascinating, thought-provoking profile of Milch in the New Yorker was pretty admiring. Charlie Brooker had a few things to say too. I have written before about why I think David Milch's drama is the best thing since pan loaf. "You can rank them however you like but to exclude Deadwood makes it a farce," said ShelfsideAndy, and most of the 1,516 comments on the blog seemed to agree. I could try, again, to get why so many of my acquaintance so adore Buffy. I could splutter somewhat at Brideshead Revisited at number two.
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OK, so here is why the numbskulls and dafties who compiled the Guardian's top 50 TV dramas were so very, very wrong. Next time: TV Club will discuss I Claudius – so order your DVDs, get watching and join us here in a fortnight, at midday on Wednesday 24
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