Any Deadwood fans out there .

Yep if someone wants to start a thread on sex offenders ? Go right ahead I,ll join in . In Fact I,ll do the starting .

I am impressed with the villainous nature of the man , (VILLAINOUS ? ) (doesn't the suffix ous after a word mean like or of ?) he is not of villainy but an archetype of it !
 
Love the show, Love the language. My top 3 characters: Cy, Jane, and Richardson.

I read somwhere that they originally scripted in period profanity, but it was so mild by today's standards that it seemed funny.
 
Evah. American Literate. My fav is Charlie Udder.
The writing is just the best. IMHO Keith Carradine's Wild Bill is just superb; mournful, world weary, still kind, and very dangerous. Guns, Knifes, and fisticuffs. What a story line! The last episode of the 1st season has to be one the absolute finest things I've ever seen on TV. Each season has moments of pure creative genius.
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Watched it every sunday, didn't realize last episodewas last week ,dissapointed , have to wait till next summer . Al Swerigen is defently my fav. character.
 
I have seen season 1 & 2 twice over. I love getting hammered and laughing my tail off trying to understand what exactly people are implying in conversation...
 
Francis Wolcott: I feel you breathing down my neck.

Charlie Utter: Should I exhale out my ((edited))

Francis Wolcott: And I believe you're doing it intentionally.

Charlie Utter: Why? You think I believe you're a ((edited))

Francis Wolcott: [turns to face Utter] If we fight, it won't be a casual matter.

Charlie Utter: Ohhh, I see you got your big ((edited)) knife there, and hid somewhere on your persons you've probably got some ((edited)) shootin' instrument. But I am good at first impressions, and you are a ((edited)) , and I DOUBT you've fought many MEN, maybe even ONE!

Love it. Love it. Love it :cool::thumbup::thumbup::cool:
 
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Sorry, I let my edited enthusiam for the show get the better of my manners.
I edited up :foot::o
 
I did start out liking this show a lot but the constant swearing sort of got old for me. I know they say this is supposedly how it was but I am not so sure that it was this way having done a lot of research on this era. People back then still had religion and this meant that they tended not to blaspheme as easily as we do these days. This was in honest fear of their souls, even those who lived in sin tended not to tempt fate and call out God. They also had a healthy respect for the way they spoke around women, even in these sorts of rough camps. Not the whores so much but once folks had wives and such showing up, the language would have changed quite a bit in town simply out of respect.

I am no prude. I now and say most of these words myself, though I don't blaspheme. I know that a lot of folks do though and frankly that is fine with m e, I am not going to tell them to stop it. Where I draw the line is when it is done for simple "shock" value which is what I sense is why they do it so much in this show. They know it is a part of why the show has become so popular, people kind of like to hear these folks curse like this constantly. It has a sort of, well, shocking way of assaulting their values and they like this and are drawn to it. Like "Shock Jocks" on the radio saying and doing the most outrageous things they can possibly think of just to make people laugh. I guess I don't find it so funny. YMMV and I am not preaching, just my two cents.
 
Doc Cochran: "I see as much misery outta them movin' to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm."

Jack McCall: "Should we shake hands or something, relieve the atmosphere? I mean how stupid do you think I am?"
Wild Bill Hickok: "I don't know. I just met you."


Reverend H.W. Smith: "Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted, to understand, than to be understood, to love, than to be loved... and the rest I forget."
 
A great show.

I used a DVR when I initially watched this show and was really glad that I had it. I can't even count the times that after some dialogue I'd say "What did they say?" With the DVR I was able to rewind and replay until I understood. That led me to understanding the lingo quicker in the future...kinda like getting used to British "English" while watching some of the BBC shows.

The issued DVDs had a lot of good background information from general historical, day to day life, the role of the Chinese and even some on the writing process for the shows. A dang shame they didn't even do a two hour wrap up.
 
Watching Series 1 at the present. Finding it most interesting and looking forward to the remaining episodes.
 
Watched it last year for the first time. We now have all episodes on dvr. We now are watching the series for the 4th time.
 
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