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[Grildon Tundy]

I started watching Deadwood for the first time since around 2009. Back then, I didn't have subtitles for it, couldn't understand the colloquial and layered dialogue, the subtexts that are implied with so many lines, the general complexity, and dropped it.

I'm two episodes in now, subtitles intact, and I haven't looked forward to the next episode of a show like this in a long time.

If Netflix shows get crap nowadays for being written for people who are half-listening to it while browsing their phones, this show is the antithesis of that. It feels almost like a challenge to the audience, but one that actually rewards the effort. The subtle body language, the double- and triple-crosses that only become clear later, the nuanced relationships, Al Swearengen's Machiavellian plotting, the glimmer of justice and hope that Timothy Olyphant's Sheriff Bullock provides. It's all so good.

Part of the reason I'm making this thread is to see what you all think of it now that so much time has passed, especially for someone like me who's "new" to it and has the movie to cap it off and give the series (hopefully) some kind of closure without needing to wait.

Btw, I did check if there was another thread I could necro, but it only had one post and was locked:

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[DKehoe]

Incredible show. I rewatched it a couple years ago and it was even better than I remembered.

 

[willothedog]

Another good watch set in roughly the same period is 'hell on wheels'

 

[The Fartist]

Damn, forgot about this one. I think only watched the 1st season. I think it's time for some cocksucking.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I still need to watch it tbh.

"Those who doubt me suck cock by choice."

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

DEADWOOD THREAD! LFG!!!

 

[BloodFree]

Decently good show, very solid 8/10, watched it last year (or the year before?), but I never finished it. Dropped it off mid-S3, I think, for whatever reason I don't recall and never went back. I guess it never entirely clicked with me to the point of loving it, maybe because it kinda mostly felt like a flavour of the week type thing, rather than having an overarching bigger A->B type plot or storyline which is the kind of show I prefer. Cocksucker scene definitely a highlight though

 

[Pimpollo818]

I'm doing my first rewatch, alongside my wife who is doing her first watch. This time I am ALSO doing subtitles. One time I notice though is that they distract a bit from the performances. Kind of reminds me of how I skip through the animations in Yakuza games b/c I read the subtitles faster than the Japanese voice over happens.

Still, I think this is the best television I've ever seen. I forgot how fast paced this show is. I do remember the later season slowing down, but 9 episodes into S1, it's a fucking miracle how good this is.

 

[BillMaxwell]

I want to do a rewatch soon.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Deadwood, Sopranos and The wire were the HBO holy Trinity back then.

Really good show, but, gotta say, the acting from Timothy Oliphant was...bad to say the least and MFer would take me out of the moment everytime he cosplayed as the sheriff, terrible, terrible actor...

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Deadwood, Sopranos and The wire were the HBO holy Trinity back then.

Really good show, but, gotta say, the acting from Timothy Oliphant was...bad to say the least and MFer would take me out of the moment everytime he cosplayed as the sheriff, terrible, terrible actor...

I don't think he's bad, but he does seem to play everything as a slight variant of "Timothy Olyphant". He's not the type of actor who disappears into the role like, for example, Tom Hardy.

 

[FMN]

SWEGIN!

 

[KaiserBecks]

So many great actors on this show! The casting process was quite something:

 

[GymWolf]

From the title i thought it was a topic about Topher 's junk tbh...

 

[thefool]

Really good show. Movie was very unnecessary.

 

[Trilobit]

I started watching it thinking it'd be a realistic wild west show, but dumping it when I realized it was a Shakespeare play.

Cool for those who enjoy that kind of mix though.

 

[Spyxos]

It was good, but i think i dropped it twice in the 3d season and never finished it.

 

[Chuck Berry]

One of my favorite shows of all time. I watch it annually. As soon as Hearst arrives in town I felt the show really went full steam ahead and it was banger episode after banger episode. The fight between Doherty and the Captain is still the most brutal I've ever seen.

 

[DKehoe]

One of my favorite shows of all time. I watch it annually. As soon as Hearst arrives in town I felt the show really went full steam ahead and it was banger episode after banger episode. The fight between Doherty and the Captain is still the most brutal I've ever seen.

That fight is so good. Rather than being elaborately choreographed it's just brutal.

 

[Ben87fr]

Wu ? WHO STOLE THE FUCKING DOPE ?? Watched it recently and the scenes with Swegin' and Wu were the best (the rest of the show too of course), COCKSUCKA !!!

 

[NekoFever]

That fight is so good. Rather than being elaborately choreographed it's just brutal.

It's like five minutes long as well, just two guys kicking the shit out of each other in the mud with no music, no dialogue, no flashy editing.

 

[AJUMP23]

Never watched it.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

What is there to say about Deadwood other than all those who denigrate it suck c*ck by choice?

I do agree that Olyphant was the weak link in the cast though. Seth deserved an actor with more physical presence. Everyone else though...chefs kiss.