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Deadwood | PopMatters Television Review Deadwood is possibly the most coruscating indictment of American capitalism ever aired in primetime. Deadwood capitalizes on the tv series' spacious format to strip the last vestiges of retrospective nostalgia from the frontier. In the letter back East to his wife, in which he describes the house he is building for her and her son, Bullock bemoans the inadequacies of the glass he's found for the windows and boasts of the fine timbers and sophisticated joints in the carpentry. www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/d/deadwood-2005.shtml   (1176 words)

Deadwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Deadwood, South Dakota is a town in South Dakota, United States Deadwood (television) is a television drama based in Deadwood, South Dakota Deadwood, Alberta is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deadwood   (138 words)

Deadwood (television) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Deadwood is a weekly HBO television drama that premiered in March 2004. At the time, Deadwood (a real town in the modern state of South Dakota) was little more than a makeshift camp, but it was a popular destination for those prospecting for gold in the Black Hills. The Metz's, who were previously residents of Deadwood quickly leave the town for their native Minnesota. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deadwood_(television)   (1700 words)

Deadwood thrives on 'Wild Bill' and blackjack - The Boston Globe In some ways, a visit to Deadwood is a disturbing journey into the past, something the TV series has captured with far more authenticity than the reality of the tourist mecca it has become. Deadwood was established in 1876 after a miner found gold the year before in the narrow canyon that became known as Deadwood Gulch, for the dead trees that lined the canyon walls. Still, Deadwood is the largest historic preservation project in the country, according to Mary Kopco, director of the Adams Museum and House, who added that the town shed some of its darker history relatively recently: Brothels remained, illegal but tolerated, until 1980, she said. www.boston.com /travel/articles/2005/08/21/deadwood_thrives_on_wild_bill_and_blackjack   (1086 words)

Deadwood : D. Keith Robinson's Asterisk The characters are based on real world people who lived in Deadwood and many of the events portrayed are based on true events as well. Deadwood is compelling, entertaining, educational, at times funny and often brutal. Deadwood is simply the very best western and written series I have seen in decades. www.7nights.com /asterisk/archives05/2005/06/deadwood   (344 words)

television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) It's a shame that the coarse language used on "Deadwood" may put some viewers off the HBO show, which, as it happens, is television's most thoughtful exploration of morality. As the second season begins, changes are coming to the year-old Deadwood encampment, and Swearengen is smart enough to realize that his iron-fisted dictatorship is coming to an end. Though "Deadwood" was, like many frontier settlements, almost exclusively male at first, the women of the show are coming to the fore. metromix.chicagotribune.com /tv/mmx-0503040020mar04,0,1848181.story?coll=mmx-television_heds   (879 words)

Talk Pretty - The linguistic brilliance of HBO's Deadwood. By Matt Feeney Deadwood's characters utter long, serpentine sentences, in diction that—depending on the speaker—can ascend to courtly abstraction or sink to the ripest vulgarity. The camp's doctor (Brad Dourif, in perhaps the finest performance of his weird career) examines the corpse of a man who apparently fell to his death, but who was actually pushed off a ridge and then bludgeoned, as he lay groaning on the rocks, by one of Swearengen's men. Deadwood is a funny show alright, but that's because, in the unflagging brilliance of its execution, it fulfills its ambition. www.slate.com /id/2100950   (1310 words)

Re: The New York Times > Arts > Television > HBO, Looking at 'Deadwood,' Sees Cavalry Riding to Rescue The numbers alone meant "Deadwood" was the first truly successful western series since "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," which started on CBS 11 years ago. HBO was not even disappointed that the numbers for the finale were slightly off from its average for the season, blaming the competition from the National Basketball Association finals. Albrecht said he believed "Deadwood" suffered to a degree in following "The Sopranos" because, he said, "it's so hard to have to follow such a heavy, challenging series with another one." He said he had also concluded that 10 p.m. www.talkabouttelevision.com /group/alt.tv.hbo/messages/8532.html   (909 words)

More New & Noteworthy The best show on television this year would have to be David Milch's epic tale of life in a real frontieer town — Deadwood. Here, the town of Deadwood is a haven for all things criminal and illegal being located outside the United States and out of the reach of any sort of real law enforcement. Not only is the story beind Deadwood a good one, it features some of the best characters to grace television screens since The Sopranos, namely Timothy Olyphant in a career defining role of Seth Bullock and Ian McShane as the criminal head of the town Al Swearengen. www.dangerousuniverse.com /detail.asp?ID=813   (1087 words)

Deadwood | PopMatters Television Review Deadwood is possibly the most coruscating indictment of American capitalism ever aired in primetime. Deadwood capitalizes on the tv series' spacious format to strip the last vestiges of retrospective nostalgia from the frontier. In the letter back East to his wife, in which he describes the house he is building for her and her son, Bullock bemoans the inadequacies of the glass he's found for the windows and boasts of the fine timbers and sophisticated joints in the carpentry. popmatters.com /tv/reviews/d/deadwood-2005.shtml   (1240 words)

CBC.ca - Arts - Television - Vile, Vile West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) “Tonight, throughout Deadwood, heads may be laid to pillow assuaged and reassured; for that purveyor for profit of everything sordid and vicious, Al Swearengen, already beaten to a fare-thee-well earlier in the day by Sheriff Bullock, has returned to the sheriff the implements [guns] and ornaments [badge] of his office. Deadwood conforms to this rule, as the series couldn’t be more 2005 in the way it presents politics and business as a PR and cost-pricing challenge. Timothy Olyphant as Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood. www.cbc.ca /arts/tv/deadwood.html   (1360 words)

[silverthought][Oscar Deadwood] So many of the residents in his building had been brainwashed through their television sets that were turned on by satellite and forced on for fifteen hours a day. He walked to the library every morning, leaving his apartment once the television was remotely turned on, and he would leisurely walk across Royal Oak’s small downtown to the library that had changed precious little since his childhood. What one saw on television, and what ads one saw on the sidewalk, were all selected based on the data retrieved from one’s memory. www.silverthought.com /deadwood03.html   (4186 words)

SignOnSanDiego.com Television Guide As a community, Deadwood is a lawless, illegal settlement populated by cutthroats, gamblers, thieves, swindlers, prostitutes and altruistic entrepreneurs. The lives of the populace are as muddy as Deadwood's streets after a rainstorm. Swearengen's ruthless philosophy is memorialized when he pooh-poohs a suggestion that his patrons stop their midnight carousing and go out and look for the "heathen Sioux" supposedly responsible for the grisly massacre of a pioneer family just outside town. www.signonsandiego.com /tvradio/040325_pt.html   (607 words)

Stories Tagged 'deadwood' » Netscape.com Television – As you may recall back in May 2006, Deadwood fans were shocked to learn that the third season of David Milch's acclaimed western series would be the show's last. Television – This article recaps the 1st eleven episodes of the third and last season of the gritty western drama Deadwood on HBO. Television – Deadwood is about to come back for its third season - but a report suggests that\'s going to be it. www.netscape.com /tag/deadwood   (233 words)

Deadwood by Ron Steinman / The Digital Filmmaker / “Deadwood” may be the only show on TV that is true, despite taking place more than one hundred years ago. The only narrative film in recent years that is equal to “Deadwood” is Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven,” a powerful and demanding film that demythologizes the Western film as genre and often-weak entertainment. Simply put, Deadwood, the place, is the way the West may have been before Hollywood cleaned up its version of the old West. digitalfilmmaker.com /dv/features/deadwood/index.html   (1026 words)

AmericanHeritage.com / The Man Who Made Deadwood The exploits of Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant), a real-life peace officer in “Deadwood,” are viewed by a mere fraction of the audience that followed those of “Gunsmoke”’s Matt Dillon (James Arness), a composite of several famous Kansas lawmen. Deadwood, South Dakota, was one of the West’s wildest gold-mining camps. Both, for a short period, were practically outside the realm of legal authority, Dodge because of the enormous influx of cowherds that often overwhelmed the local police force, Deadwood because it was, for a while, an illegal town built on Indian land beyond the reach of U.S. authority. www.americanheritage.com /articles/web/20060608-deadwood-hbo-david-milch-television-westerns.shtml   (2641 words)

Television : Gold Diggers of 1876 : HBO's Deadwood , a western series for grownups :: The Cleveland Free Times :: ... The major television networks have been bellyaching for years about how cable is chipping away at their dwindling market shares and ad revenue. Deadwood takes some time establishing its multitude of players and laying out the central story threads, but it's well worth the time and effort. The most principled new resident of Deadwood, and the ostensible hero of the series, is former marshal Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant, in a potentially star-making performance). www.freetimes.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1211   (1097 words)

TheHistoryNet | Wild West | The Real Men of Deadwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) In its earliest days Deadwood was little more than a rough-and-tumble mining camp, where men, livestock and the elements coexisted, in a sprawl of ramshackle buildings and tents, knee-deep in mud, rats and garbage. His place in Deadwood's history, of course, stems from the fact that he was last seen alive in a local establishment, the Lewis and Mann No. 10 Saloon. A prominent member of Deadwood's large Jewish community, Star was active in the local synagogue and gave generously to needy Jewish families in Russia and Europe. www.historynet.com /magazines/wild_west/3418471.html?showAll=y&c=y   (4406 words)

Deadwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) I know it's Deadwood, but really, he is suppose to sell the pick axes, not look like he is carrying them around in his pants. Deadwood is in its prime and I'm looking forward to many more seasons of it. Deadwood didn't jump at all, and it has the momentum building for a great second season. www.jumptheshark.com /d/deadwood.htm   (6818 words)

TV Show Summary :: Deadwood :: Television Series Synopsis Deadwood is the story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. Although no one is locked into continuing with "Deadwood", an HBO rep said the network was confident in reaching all the deals necessary to proceed with the show in its new incarnation. www.tvrage.com /Deadwood   (493 words)

Deadwood (2004/I TV series) - A Hollywood Jesus Television Review Located in the Black Hills Indian Cession, the "town" of Deadwood is an illegal settlement, a violent and uncivilized outpost that attracts a colorful array of characters looking to get rich — from outlaws and entrepreneurs to ex-soldiers and racketeers, Chinese laborers, prostitutes, city dudes and gunfighters. Milch, DEADWOOD's creator and head writer in addition to its executive producer, is a onetime Yale lecturer whose TV credits include such series as "NYPD Blue" (he was co-creator) and "Hill Street Blues." Walter Hill ("48 HRS.", "The Long Riders") directed DEADWOOD's pilot episode. This show is loosely based on actual events in the Sioux Indian land of Deadwood, South Dakota, during the 1870s -- just after Custer’s ill-fated stand at Little Big Horn and as gold is discovered in the Black Hills. www.hollywoodjesus.com /deadwood.htm   (1586 words)

‘Deadwood’ hopes there’s life in the western - TV DRAMA - MSNBC.com Set in Deadwood, S.D., shortly after the battle of Little Big Horn, the show focuses on a dusty collection of characters, many of whom could have hoofed it directly to the set from any other screen western. In fact, "The Sopranos" is, more generally, a fairly obvious ancestor of "Deadwood." It is, after all, television's most beloved moral quagmire, in and out of which stomp a colorful collection of greedy, aggressive, often bumbling guys living by a complicated set of rules of engagement that they themselves often seem not to understand. Although Sydney Bristow is part of an official government agency, she and her team generally operate in a gray area between nobility and treachery, making grim compromises that would be unfamiliar to a traditional police officer. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4548105   (1132 words)

Deadwood — Sepia Toned Western Mayhem - Printer Friendly Page - Television - EclipseMagazine.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) The town of Deadwood actually existed as an illegal settlement on the Black Hills Indian Cession — which meant that federal laws did not apply to it. “Deadwood” is set in this unique environment, and features a cast of some of the grubbiest, orneriest characters imaginable — alongside some famous names [Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane] who weren’t known for their civilized behaviour, and a number of more refined types who seem completely out of their league. In my estimation, “Deadwood” is not for the faint of heart, but it is for the adventurous. www.eclipsemagazine.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=937   (634 words)

Deadwood - Television Review Deadwood takes place in the late 1870s, just after gold was discovered in the Black Hills of what is now South Dakota. Desperate adventurers flocked to Deadwood -- most were trying to reinvent themselves, and many were gamblers, gunfighters, prostitutes, or those who might profit from providing or using those services. As the rough-and-tumble town of Deadwood lurches toward becoming a civilized society, its people (many of whom are based on actual 1870s residents) grapple with change in themselves, as well as how they fit in. www.commonsensemedia.org /tv-reviews/Deadwood.html   (860 words)

Chicago Tribune | The Watcher Allowing “Deadwood” to wither, in favor of an as-yet-unseen new surfing series from “Deadwood’s” creator, David Milch, is a disastrous decision, and it sends a worrying signal at a crucial time for HBO. True, “Deadwood” is expensive to make, but it no doubt has made and will continue to make plenty of money on DVD and other platforms. Deadwood ranks right up there with The Sopranos to me. I keep on telling my wife that she has her daytime soaps and I have my nighttime soaps (meaning Deadwood). featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com /entertainment_tv/2006/06/is_it_hbo_or_ju.html   (3050 words)

the futon critic - the web's best primetime television resource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) The spring of 1877 brings major changes to DEADWOOD, in the form of new arrivals, and the encroaching forces of modernism and capitalism, as the camp becomes an official part of the United States. In addition, DEADWOOD was recently nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Television Series, Drama and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama (Ian McShane). DEADWOOD is produced by HBO Entertainment in association with Red Board Productions and Paramount Network Television; created and executive produced by David Milch; executive producer, Gregg Fienberg; supervising producers, Scott Stephens and Jody Worth; producers, Ed Bianchi, Ted Mann, Elizabeth Sarnoff; casting directors, Junie Lowry Johnson, C.S.A. and Libby Goldstein. www.thefutoncritic.com /cgi/pr.cgi?&id=20050113hbo04   (305 words)

Deadwood, South Dakota - REVEALED As an amateur historian, the remarkable story line of HBO's : "Deadwood" television series prompted me to seek the true history behind the people and places shown on my television screen. This is not a criticism of the HBO series, as the series was not intended to be a 'documentary.' The Deadwood mini-series is a fascinating tale of the early days of the Black Hills of South Dakota, being loosely based on factual people and events. April 2006: Added DEADWOOD SOUTH DAKOTA BLOG - Discussion of the HBO television series, "Deadwood." Moderated discussion, latest news, commentary on actors. www.deadwood.searchroots.com   (319 words)

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