Deadwood 2nd Season (1 Viewer)

[Jean D]

Yeah, last night was rough. "What do we do with this extra time?"....I played Halo 2, she watched Cold Case Files. I still feel like somethings missing though.

 

[LewB]

Perhaps we need to concoct some sort of board game that pays homage to Deadwood. We have 30+ weeks ( ) to work on it.
It must involve lots of cussing (extra points for f*k and c*ksucker). It must also involve drinking shots of whiskey, playing poker, and lots of whores. It should also include dice in honor of Cy. You know that you've lost at 'Deadwood, the board game' when you get fed to Woo's pigs. Hey, with the cussing, drinking and whores, it's got to be a winner

 

[JonZ]

 

[Jean D]

That sounds like a great fucking game! It could make a great video game as well. I could see it as being like a western version of Grand Theft Auto.

 

[Justin Bauer]

I started watching season 1 on DVD to tide me over for the Sopranos DVDs next week. It will at least give me something to watch.

 

[LewB]

Looks like they are replaying season 2 on HBO2 starting next week, this is from an e-mail I got from HBO:

 

[Henry Gale]

If I had cable or a dish...I'd certainly be watching Deadwood.
But I don't.
I do however have an inquiring friend....who asks this question:

Last week, the show Deadwood ended with a song whose first line went something like this:



“Rattlesnake, rattlesnake

what makes your teeth so white?”



“I been living in these bottoms all my life

and I don’t do nothing but bite,

no I don’t do nothing but bite.”

So, any help from you Deadheads on information about this tune?

Thanks,

Henry

 

[TravisR]

They list the songs from the episode on HBO's Deadwood site but most of season two's music isn't updated yet. You may be able to find it in their message boards too but there is ALOT to go through. Hopefully they'll update it soon. Good luck!

 

[Alex-C]

Any word on Deadwood season 2 DVD release ?
This year, before Christmas perhaps ?

I watched Season 1 on DVD and decided to wait and not watch season 2. I missed some episodes and really enjoy the progression from 1 episode to the next.

 

[TravisR]

Probably not until about month before Season Three starts on HBO. And with The Sopranos coming back in March, Deadwood MAY not start until late spring or later.

That being said, I wish Season Two's DVDs were already out.

 

[JonZ]

Im already missing Deadwood. I really hope we dont have to wait until May for a new season.

 

[DaveMcS]

Just started re-watching Season 2 on DVD (courtesy of Netflix) and the first few eps brought back a question I've had since watching it "live" way back when.

Whatis Seth's beef with Sol Starr's "lady friend" Trixie. They each seem to hold the other in some serious dislike....where does this animosity come from ?

 

[Charlie Campisi]

She's a whore and he sees his friend falling for someone who might be preying on him; she's Al's girl; she's distracting Sol from doing his job at the store; I think she's also been critical of his relationship with Alma. At least that's where I think it comes from.

 

[Dheiner]

I think that Seth is convinced that the only reason Trixie is screwing Sol is to allow her to "spy" for Al. And at the start, he was right. I'm not sure he still is, but, at the least, Trixie still has mixed loyalties.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Just finished the second season. It was in this run of episodes that I really got the sense that Deadwood is a show about a place, rather than a show about a couple of characters. The focus is still on Bullock and Swearengen, but the supporting cast continues to expand, and the amount of time we spend with them continues to expand. At any given time, there are six or seven different subplots unfolding, and one of the principal joys for me is the way the show intermingles them, weaving up and down the thoroughfare and giving us a brief window into the goings-on at each stop along the way.

It was a bit strange having Garret Dillahunt play two different characters, one in the first season and one this season. Other than both being murderers, the two men don't have much in common in terms of temperament, bearing, or social class. But Dillahunt's voice is so distinctive that it was hard to ignore that it was the same actor.

It's strange that Anna Gunn's two most famous roles -- this and "Breaking Bad" -- have her playing wives who serve as frustrating obstacles to the male protagonist's less honorable desires. She does a good job here with some tough material, especially in the aftermath of her son's untimely death.

It's interesting that Gerald McRaney, one of television's great actors for playing decent and honorable men, is revealed in the finale as the show's much-discussed but heretofore unseen Big Bad, George Hearst. As Swearengen and Tolliver, Ian McShane and Powers Boothe give big, bold, juicy performances. It would have been a mistake to present a George Hearst who attempts to be bigger, bolder, and juicier than them. Instead, McRaney plays Hearst with an understated directness. He's the most dangerous and powerful man in any room, and he knows it, so he doesn't need to huff and puff to show it.

Jeffrey Jones was promoted to a series regular this season as A.W. Merrick, the newspaperman. He's well-cast in the role, but I do find it a bit perplexing that nobody had a problem hiring or working with a man with a felony conviction for soliciting a minor to produce child pornography.

For a show set in a time and place very unkind to women, this show has a higher than average number of great female characters.

The machinations involved with bringing Deadwood into the Dakota Territory were fascinating. I don't know how much was fiction and how much was rooted in historical fact.

 

[Hollywoodaholic]

We tried re-watching the series on HBO GO, but there was much more grain in the darker scenes, so we're sticking with the blu-ray, which looks better. Duh.