Deadwood

It seems to me the perspective on Deadwood and The Wire too is kind of a left-libertarianism -- which is a weird place to be on the American political spectrum, because it's kind of the dominant voice of our mass entertainments, but it's almost totally unrepresented in actual political dialogue. And lacking political representation, it tends to run and hide whenever bipartisan bluenoses start yammering about values. I'm so sick of reading allegedly "liberal" columnists say things like, "Of course, our pop culture is an open sewer, and nobody can blame parents for wanting to protect their children..."

(Which is also another reason I like Frank Rich, because he's one of the only major liberal voices in the media who's sounding alarms about all this "indecency" stuff -- it's like he actually sees it for what it is. We need more pundits with arts backgrounds, maybe.)

I'll shut up now. But I do love this show.

Indeed.

What are y'all favorite lines from Deadwood? Put them here.

I like the little speech Swearengen gives about when he and Dan came and built Deadwood from scratch, "bucktooth fucking beavers slapping their tails in the water as if we were hired entertainment". Haha.

Well, he's good on Deadwood.

OTMFM. Swearengen is the REAL hero of the show; Bullock is this sort of confused teenager.

I personally think the whole thing is what MOST great ensemble cast stories are: a personification of the inner life of the chief writer. Bullock THINKS he's the superego, but he's really the id; Swearengen THINKS he's the id, but he's really the ego.

Trixie
Doc
Alma (ooh, I just know she's a con-artist. I know it. I used to hate her, until it occured to me she was an evil bitch. Now I like her tons.)
Starr (getting better, and I hope to see him allied w. Trixie against Bullock).
and Ricky Jay's character. Is he back this season?

and, naturally, Swearengen.

That, if I may be motherfuckin' permitted to voice my goddamn opinion on the topic which we have at here to fuckin' hand, could possibly be concieved as my favorite episode to date, despite the motherfuckin' surfeit of Al, speaking of his estimable (yet lacking in coherence) contributions in the matter of dialogues. This sonofabitch Mr. W - and if that's not a name evocative of our ways and times I'll be doubly fucked as to what could qualify - is representing a shadowy, powerful, distant motherfucker who's very name puts a shake in the boots of everyone in this shithole camp from a craven cocksucker like E.B. to the icewatery veins of Cy Fuckin' Tolliver? Oh, he's a body to keep your bloodshot peepers on of a one hundred percent certainty.

The sequence where Trixie told off the Jew ("fuck the whole lot of you. i wish i was a tree") was as brilliant and clean and incisive as anything I've ever seen on television.

OTM with Dan crying. Such a great character.

Did anybody else notice that the actor who plays the new Hearst man is the same guy who killed Wild Bill?

1) Trixie / Jane
2) "Don't look me in the face."
3) "Don't spread the rumors. About the claims. Don't."
4) "Maybe I'm wrong on account of me being perpetually fucking drunk."

ahem.

(it's fun to post in Deadwoodese!)