Deadwood: Season Two

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"This is the star of a union general"
"This is the asshole of a drunken shitbird"

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"You cannot fuck the future. The future fucks you!"

i must say, though, after having a full 3 deaths thus far in the season (of ridiculously minor characters, no less ... er, 'no more' i guess i mean), i kind of liked how things got rather exhilaratingly personal this episode. i don't know what that says about me or the show, but i know it's true.

I do agree about the retribution, though. I'll predict that Isringhausen will either be dealt with by Al making Silas kill her (to make a small problem go away, like he did with the highway men at the beginning of last season), or she will become very powerful in a short period of time. maybe both. I agree with you about Tolliver, but he better go out with a great build up, Tommy DeVito style.

There've been plenty of archetypically "elemental" liquids (blood, mud, piss, laudenum, jizz, whiskey), plenty of "elemental" solids (gold, guns, antlers, stones, wood) and very few "elemental" gasses (fire, fog, stars). And if I'm right, Mr. Wu & the Chinese (the Celestials) are harbringers of the conflict that'll be embodied by the struggle to the point of their monikers, even.

Hmmm...

And if jane was stuck in lockup, sleeping off a drunk when a fire came through....
Could be anyone, really.

The Isringhausen subplot rings just a tad false. It has the air of one of those sudden idea/plot changes that Milch is famous for. It DOES make me want to go back and watch old episodes to see if there was any clue she was a mole, tho...

interesting about the fire thing.

"We are dwarves in the presence of a giant."

"Tread lightly, ye who hope of gettin' pussy."

"Open or shut?"

I hope Miss Isringhausen sticks around for a while, she killed in last week's scene with Alma, plus "no charge for the pussy."

Dead kid alert!

"I've been prostrated with the agonies of the damned"

Always nice to see Taylor Pruitt Vince though. And Brad Dourif. Hmmm... what with all these X-Files guests running about, I'm getting ready to begin anticipating the arrival in Deadwood of Giovanni Ribisi?

Mm-hmm. My favorite scenes are the ones built on all the weird character inter-connections (like when they bring Alma in for the opening of the safe, and nobody really says anything but there's all these weird vibes going around the room). The death'n'destruction is overkill in the literal sense.

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"God is not mocked, you sonofabitch."

stabstabstab

Still, Season One >>>>>>>>>> Season Two

Waiting game sucks, who's up for hungry hungry hippos?

BUT, I was generally and widely entertained. I'll miss it. I'm now left without a single weekly show to look forward to. Maybe I can catch Lost in summer reruns...

Mr. Wu kicks ass.

I think he accepted Hearst's offer because of the condition that Farnham would stay on as manager. He's nothing without that Hotel, and he knows it.

this seems really ridiculous. The creator has changed his focus to a surfing show for HBO? Did he get bored already? This sucks. The last season better be great.

Last month, HBO made the premature announcement that the upcoming third season of Deadwood would be its last. They were half right.

The cable net has reached an agreement with David Milch, the cuss-friendly western's creator and exec producer, to wrap up the drama next year with a pair of two-hour TV movies rather than a fourth season.

"I am thrilled that we were able to figure out a way to continue," Milch told the Hollywood Reporter. "No one was ready to let go of the show. And I am really glad we have found a way to proceed that works creatively."

For the past month, it was assumed that Deadwood would be DOA come its season premiere after HBO announced it would not be renewing the contract options for its series' stars, which were set to expire on the date of the season opener, June 11.

As it is, the cable net will need to renegotiate deals with the cast anyway to account for the difference between a full season's contract and a contract for two two-hour installments.

The show's swan song incarnation is a happy medium for both Milch and the network, who previously had discussed a truncated six-episode final season in lieu of a full-blown 12-episode order.

According to Variety, Milch took issue with the idea of a shortened fourth season as each episode of Deadwood takes place over the course of one day and wrapping up the goings-on at the doomed encampment in, per the show's time, just six days, would not do the show, or its fans, justice.

By using the new TV movie format, which HBO will tout as special event presentations, Milch will be able to abandon his one show-one day format and wrap up the drama without the time constraints.

The promise of a proper Deadwood send-off will likely ingratiate the network to both fans and critics, as the drama has proved to be a critical favorite--racking up five Emmys out of 11 nominations last year, as well as nabbing series star Ian McShane the Best Actor in a Drama nod at the 2005 Golden Globes as well as taking home a Peabody Award--and continued to be one of HBO's best performers last season.

But according to Variety, the show, set in the titular outlaw mining camp in the late 1870s, was also one of its priciest.

Each episode of the drama reportedly cost around $5 million to produce and took up to 16 days of shooting--a lot, even by HBO standards.

While no start or premiere date has yet been announced for the two-part four-hour series finale, it will need to revolve around Milch's production schedule for his new HBO pilot, John from Cincinnati. Production is expected to kick off shortly on that project, described as a "surf noir."

The third and final full season of Deadwood kicks off this Sunday on HBO.

you cannot fuck the future, sir. the future fucks you.

finished season two, this show is amazing.

blowjob soliloquy would be a good name for a band.