Deadwood: The Complete Second Season
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Actor: Brad Dourif, Ian Mcshane, Keith Carradine, Molly Parker, Timothy OlyphantBrand: HBO Home Video
Producer: David Milch
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 92779
Studio: HBO Home Video
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- 1877. A new day is dawning in the Black Hills outlaw camp of Deadwood. For better or worse, times are changing, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. Unsavory new arrivals - looking to cash in on the lucrative anarchy -- and a government of outsiders usher in an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, all learning the hard way.fortune comes with
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Movie Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
I want to start this review with this. I've never liked westerns that much. I've never seen "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" or "Dances With Wolves".
I liked "Open Range" but that's about as far as it goes. I started watching "Deadwood" when a friend recommended it. I started watching the first season via rental about two weeks before this season came out on DVD. After about 5 episodes of the first season I was hooked. This show is so good and there are so many good things about it. The dialogue is great, the action riveting, the characters are well drawn out and even the most evil characters you can't help but like. A lot of people associate "Deadwood" with "that western show with lots of cussing." Yes, there is a lot of cussing in this show and it works perfectly. The show is also very real; You'll never see a character wearing Nikes and the woman all have armpit hair. It's realistic, even when you don't want it to be. In the second season, older characters return and new characters come in. We even have an actor from the first season come back and play a different character. First off, I try to spare as many details as possible about episodes in my review because I feel it's best to watch the show without a preconceived notion of what's going to happen, but I'll give you a brief and to the point synopsis before giving my thoughts on each episode. In the first episode we see the return of Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert, who's really a talented actress who I look forward to seeing in movies after the third-and sadly last-season of Deadwood ends). We also get to witness a bloody and entertaining fight between saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane, who would win the Best Actor Oscar if this was a movie easily) and sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olymphant). We also see Joanie Stubbs, the former hooker of The Bella Union temporarily open up her own brothel. Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe, who gives a great supporting performance and is very good at playing unstable characters) owner of The Bella Union is even worse off in this season in first. Whore Trixie becomes more of a lead character as she begins working in Bullock's hardware store alongside Sol Star (John Hawkes). Alma Garrett, still raising the young child Sofia, forms a sexual relationship with Bullock right as his wife & son show up. Also, Swearengen who was established as a thoroughly evil character in the first season turns out to be a pretty good guy this season while maintaining his nastiness. Anyway, this season (I think) is very superior to the first season...Except it'll spend as many as three episodes on one subject (urinary infections, death, etc.). All the actors are getting used to their roles and are almost becoming real people. As for the complaint that the same actor who played Jack McCall is now playing Francis Wolcott, I hardly noticed at first. It's obvious it's him, but it's not bothersome. The guy seems to be a character actor who can float in and out of episodes. Here are the episodes and my thoughs, but my final comment is...If you love westerns or have already watched "Deadwood" and love it. Buy this damned DVD set.
1. A Lie Agreed Upon Pt.1-An explosive opener for the season. The best episode I've seen of Deadwood so far. There's a great sex scene between Seth Bullock & Alma Garret; There's a great fight scene between Seth Bullock & Al Swearengen; There's a great return of Calamity Jane, that keeps true to her characters. The dialogue is so good, this is really a spectacular episode.
2. A Lie Agreed Upon Pt.2-Ian McShane is such an amazing actor. Al Swearengen is a terrific character who's got near perfect dialogue. Another great episode.
3. New Money-This episode, for the most part, centers around a bladder problem Swearengen is having...These scenes where the doc has to remove stones and such from his bladder are painful to watch. Oh and P.S., why is the actor that played Jack McCall back in the show as a guy named Wolcott? He's not bad, but they could've gotten someone else.
4. Requiem for a Gleet-Again, scenes involving Swearengen's bladder infection are painful to watch. Everytime Wu comes into The Gem though, it's pretty funny. Stephen Toblowsky (from "Memento") guest stars.
5. Complications (Formerly Difficulties)-5/5-This is my favorite episode of 'Deadwood' out of the ones so far. The dialogue in this episode is very witty and well written. I like the Calamity Jane character more & more with every episode.
6. Something Very Expensive-This episode is very intense and you find out that Wolcott is worse than Swearengen. It shows that the show is ready to go in a different direction.
7. EB Was Left Out-This episode isn't my favorite, but the scene where Charlie Utter beats up Wolcott was very cool.
8. Childish Things-This is one of the shortest episodes (48 minutes). I love the line Swearengen says to that teacher chick "Thank you for brushing against my prick."
This episode is really good and introduces a Russian telegraph operator.
9. Amalgation & Capital-A tragic event occurs. The score and the sequence of events leading up to this event (as well as the camera work) make this one of the saddest & most effective episodes.
10. Advances, None Miraculous-This episode pretty much revolves around the tragedy that occured in the previous episode. It's pretty good, I guess.
11. The Whores Can Come-While one can come up with all sorts of innuendo for this episode's title, it's not what you think. This episode is about the funeral of the person who died in the last episode. This one has it's moments, but overall is probably the weakest episode this season.
12. Boy The Earth Talks To-This is a great season finale that leaves you cheering for the characters and waiting for the next season.
GRADE: A+
P.S.,
I want to add that I'm happy the writers of the show decided to make the character of Mr. Wu bigger. He was in the first season for a few moments, but left such an impression and made me laugh so hard. I'm pleased to see him back.
Summary of Deadwood: The Complete Second Season
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