
"On the tit - I know where it goes..."
another from the TV masterworks collection
by Allan Fish
(USA 2004-2006 2,175m) DVD1/2
My counter offer to your counter offer
p Scott Stephens, David Milch, Ted Man, Liz Sarnoff, Edward Bianchi d Walter Hill, Michael Almereyda, Edward Bianchi, Davis Guggenheim, Alan Taylor, Daniel Minahan, Steve Shill, Greg Fienberg, Mark Tinker, Daniel Attias w Ricky Jay, David Milch, Malcolm MacRury, Ted Mann, Bernadette McNamara, George Putnam, Liz Sarnoff, Jody Worth, Regina Gorrado, Sarah Hess, Victoria Morrow created by David Milch ph James Glennon, David Boyd, Lloyd Ahern III, Annie McAveety, Xavier Perez Proget ed Stephen Mark, Elizabeth Kling, Lauren A.Schaffer m David Schwartz, Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Michael Brook art Maria Caso cos Katherine Jane Bryant
Ian McShane (Al Swearengen), Timothy Olyphant (Seth Bullock), Molly Parker (Alma Garret), Brad Dourif (Doc Cochran), Robin Weigert (Calamity Jane), Keith Carradine (Wild Bill Hickok), William Sanderson (E.B.Farnum), Jeffrey Jones (Merrick), Jim Beaver (Ellsworth), Powers Boothe (Cy Tolliver), Ricky Jay (Edward Sawyer), Kim Dickens (Joanie Stubbs), John Hawkes (Sol Star), Paula Malcomson (Trixie), Leon Rippy (Tom Nuttall), W.Earl Brown (Dan Dority), Dayton Callie (Charlie Utter), Sean Bridgers (Johnny Burns), Larry Cedar (Leon), Ray McKinnon (Rev Smith), Keone Young (Mr Wu), Zach Grenier (Andy Cramed), Brian Cox (John Langrish), Gerald McRaney (George Hearst), Anna Gunn (Martha Bullock), Geri Jewell (Jewel), Garret Dillahunt (Jack McCall/Francis Walcott), Josh Erickson (William Bullock), Bree Seanna Wall (Sophia Metz), Titus Welliver (Silas Adams), Stephen Tobolowsky (Hugo Jarry), Pruitt Taylor Vince (Mose Manuel), Alice Krige (Maddie), Kristen Bell (Flora Anderson),
It had been over a decade since the cancellation of My-So Called Life that such groans were heard as when HBO made the ridiculous decision to cancel David Milch’s small screen masterpiece a season early in what was to be a four season run. Here was a series that put all the pale imitations of westerns on the box – and indeed largely on the big screen – into the shade. It dared to show the west not only as it was, but let us hear it as it was. The hardline moralists were shocked; their Calamity Jane sang about a ‘Secret Love’ and the dirtiness was purely face deep. Hollywood’s idea of a rowdy western saloon was perpetuated in Destry Rides Again and Dodge City, their women dressed in pioneer gingham dresses. Not only was Deadwood not afraid to call a spade a spade, it called a spade a fucking spade. Some found it excessive at first, but as Ian McShane was quick to point out in his DVD commentary (with Tim Olyphant, one of the best ever done), every single cuss word was strategically placed. Take one out or add an extra one in and it loses the rhythm, like Revelation 22:18-19 made fact. (more…)
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