I'm with you on on the cussing. I tried to watch several shows to see what everyone was raving about. As a professional sailor of 20 years and one who can cuss with the best of them, I found Deadwood to be nothing more than a 1 hour show of how many cuss words could the writers fit in. In fact it was so distracting I would lose the plot as some of the cussing really didn't fit the scenes. My wife liked it but I ended up writing it off as a gimiky hook to try and get viewers.
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I guess to each his own, I love the whole series and was disappointed when it was cancelled.
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Me too. It was the only series I would remember to watch on time instead of record so we could talk about it at work the next day.
BTW, I meet Wild Bill & Calamity Jane about a year ago. They said to say F#*kin Hello!:-)
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Cool Kevin! :-)
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And it wasn't really cancelled. Milch decided it was time to move on. To John from Cincinnati.:-)
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Quote of the evening....Calamity Jane to Mose.."She no more needs a watchman than she does a fu$%ing ballonist."

As for the cursing, I am sure it struck everyone the same. In watching the special features, it seems that there were
foul-mouthed people and regular people back then as today, and words like $hit, bltch, son of a bltch and a$$ were
plenty bad for victorian times. The reason the words in Deadwood are taken up a notch (bam) is that Milch wanted
to shock and deliver the same feeling that the previously mentioned words did in that time. Except that now the
words that were so foul THEN are common in prime time TV and in common usage in these coarser times. So the words
chosen for the Deadwood teleplay are the "shocker" words of OUR day, to deliver the proper intensity and shock effect.
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F**!!ng C***S***ers ! Throw em to the hogs !
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Now that I have watched three seasons all in a line over 3 weeks, I think it was ended too quick.
IT WAS ended cleanly and it made sense and I was beginning to get tired of my friend Powers Booth.
But to watch Ian McShane read that dialogue was a real treat. They wrote for him some of the
most lengthy, twisted up streams of big words, and he just hammered em. That was something
to watch, and I just loved every minute of it. He has a fan for life. And what was doubly interesting
was watching the E.B Farnum character devolve into a total nutjob. He was quirky at the start,
but he just completely went nuts by the end of the series. And HIS manner of speech was hilarious
as well. It was like he spent so much time hearing the statements of Al Swearengen that he was
trying to imitate his word usage. And he admitted to reading vocabulary improvement articles or
books. And watching him beat on his underling like an Igor was another parallel to his own
relationship with Al.
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