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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783119342
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783119348
Label: Home Box Office (HBO)
Manufacturer: Home Box Office (HBO)
Number Of Discs: 6
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Home Box Office (HBO)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 08, 2005
Running Time: 720 minutes
Sales Rank: 1631
Studio: Home Box Office (HBO)
Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 2004
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(HBO Dramatic Series) 1876. In the Black Hills of South Dakota lies Deadwood a lawless town inhabited by a mob of restless misfits ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. The richest gold strike in American history provides the backdrop for HBO's next great drama.Running Time: 720 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359243028 Manufacturer No: 92430
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The remarkable first season of Deadwood represents one of those periodic, wholesale reinventions of the Western that is as different from, say, Lonesome Dove as that miniseries is from Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo or the latter is from Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur. In many ways, HBO's Deadwood embraces the Western's unambiguous morality during the cinema's silent era through the 1930s while also blazing trails through a post-NYPD Blue, post-The West Wing television age exalting dense and customized dialogue. On top of that, Deadwood has managed an original look and texture for a familiar genre: gritty, chaotic, and surging with both dark and hopeful energy. Yet the show's creator, erstwhile NYPD Blue head writer David Milch, never ridicules or condescends to his more grasping, futile characters or overstates the virtues of his heroic ones.
Set in an ungoverned stretch of South Dakota soon after the 1876 Custer massacre, Deadwood concerns a lawless, evolving town attracting fortune-seekers, drifters, tyrants, and burned-out adventurers searching for a card game and a place to die. Others, particularly women trapped in prostitution, sundry do-gooders, and hangers-on have nowhere else to go. Into this pool of aspiration and nightmare arrive former Montana lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) and his friend Sol Starr (John Hawkes), determined to open a lucrative hardware business. Over time, their paths cross with a weary but still formidable Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) and his doting companion, the coarse angel Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert); an aristocratic, drug-addicted widow (Molly Parker) trying to salvage a gold mining claim; and a despondent hooker (Paula Malcomson) who cares, briefly, for an orphaned girl. Casting a giant shadow over all is a blood-soaked king, Gem Saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), possibly the best, most complex, and mesmerizing villain seen on TV in years. Over 12 episodes, each of these characters, and many others, will forge alliances and feuds, cope with disasters (such as smallpox), and move--almost invisibly but inexorably--toward some semblance of order and common cause. Making it all worthwhile is Milch's masterful dialogue--often profane, sometimes courtly and civilized, never perfunctory--and the brilliant acting of the aforementioned performers plus Brad Dourif, Leon Rippy, Powers Boothe, and Kim Dickens. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
If you are offended by obscene language, you will not like this show. You probably shouldn't even watch it. You'll hear the F-wor 43 times in the first episode and respond by posting a 1 star review about how this is a horrible show. If your ears are numb, if you don't mind cursing, if you like obscenities, or you're willing to try and deal with it for the sake of the best show ever made, then keep reading.
This is an abbreviated review. I posted a much longer at my blog (lonelyartistclub.blogspot.com), ... Read More
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So many people seem to have an ignorant, dismissive opinion of this show based on the language. Yes, it does take a little while to tune into, but you might want to consider doing a little homework before you shoot your mouth off about it being dumb, trivial, or especially "unrealistic".
Milch painstakingly researched the history of the period and the kind of language used, and in fact a large part of the show's project is about how the use of such language fits into a scenario where people are trying to ... Read More
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This could be the best western I've ever seen. Not that I've seen many, mind you, and being from New England I'm new to the whole midwest theme concept; but this show is brilliant. It's hysterically funny and touching and clever; and the writing is absolutely fantastic.
There is however a side effect to watching this show: you will begin to notice a distinct smattering of pepper in your vocabulary. They use tremendous amounts of foul language in particularly creative ways; it's part of the charm but unfortunately ... Read More
Rating:  -
Ok, judging by the title for this review, you can guess what my main problem with Deadwood is. I rented the first disc of Deadwood season 1 because I love the old west theme and I've liked HBO's other productions, so I really wanted to check this out.
Unfortunately, within the first 5 minutes of episode 1, I quickly started noticing a theme with the dialogue that did not let up one bit throughout the 2 episodes on this disc, and that was the profanity. Lots and LOTS of it. I'm no goodie-two-shoes and don't have the ... Read More
Rating:  -
i loved this i used the first season from a guy at worked i enjoyed it so much i bought all 3 seasons the only reason i did not give it all 5 stars is it was going to run 4 seasons so i did not like the way it ended at the end of the 3rd season it left you hanging but it was still a good show
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