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Deadwood - The Complete First Season

directed by: Michael Almereyda, Timothy Van Patten

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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783119342
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783119348
Label: Home Box Office (HBO)
Manufacturer: Home Box Office (HBO)
Number Of Discs: 6
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Home Box Office (HBO)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 08, 2005
Running Time: 720 minutes
Sales Rank: 1705
Studio: Home Box Office (HBO)
Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 2004



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(HBO Dramatic Series) 1876. In the Black Hills of South Dakota lies Deadwood a lawless town inhabited by a mob of restless misfits ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. The richest gold strike in American history provides the backdrop for HBO's next great drama.Running Time: 720 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359243028 Manufacturer No: 92430

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The remarkable first season of Deadwood represents one of those periodic, wholesale reinventions of the Western that is as different from, say, Lonesome Dove as that miniseries is from Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo or the latter is from Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur. In many ways, HBO's Deadwood embraces the Western's unambiguous morality during the cinema's silent era through the 1930s while also blazing trails through a post-NYPD Blue, post-The West Wing television age exalting dense and customized dialogue. On top of that, Deadwood has managed an original look and texture for a familiar genre: gritty, chaotic, and surging with both dark and hopeful energy. Yet the show's creator, erstwhile NYPD Blue head writer David Milch, never ridicules or condescends to his more grasping, futile characters or overstates the virtues of his heroic ones.

Set in an ungoverned stretch of South Dakota soon after the 1876 Custer massacre, Deadwood concerns a lawless, evolving town attracting fortune-seekers, drifters, tyrants, and burned-out adventurers searching for a card game and a place to die. Others, particularly women trapped in prostitution, sundry do-gooders, and hangers-on have nowhere else to go. Into this pool of aspiration and nightmare arrive former Montana lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) and his friend Sol Starr (John Hawkes), determined to open a lucrative hardware business. Over time, their paths cross with a weary but still formidable Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) and his doting companion, the coarse angel Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert); an aristocratic, drug-addicted widow (Molly Parker) trying to salvage a gold mining claim; and a despondent hooker (Paula Malcomson) who cares, briefly, for an orphaned girl. Casting a giant shadow over all is a blood-soaked king, Gem Saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), possibly the best, most complex, and mesmerizing villain seen on TV in years. Over 12 episodes, each of these characters, and many others, will forge alliances and feuds, cope with disasters (such as smallpox), and move--almost invisibly but inexorably--toward some semblance of order and common cause. Making it all worthwhile is Milch's masterful dialogue--often profane, sometimes courtly and civilized, never perfunctory--and the brilliant acting of the aforementioned performers plus Brad Dourif, Leon Rippy, Powers Boothe, and Kim Dickens. --Tom Keogh



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - From the begining
I was hooked from the very first episode. I literally couldn't get enough. Literally. Good extras ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Deadwood Season One
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Deadwood is awsome
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Best Dramatic Western Series Ever
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Complete Deadwod
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