Deadwood
Decca -- Monday, April 05, 2004 -- 09:36:40 AMThe show that does for the Wild West what The Sopranos did for the mob.
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"I need to fuck something. TRIXIE!" The warm fuzzies just don't stop!
I thought it was the Gem Saloon?
Yeah, Powers Boothe. And the woman who's part of that group looks familiar, too, but I don't know her name or her character's name in Deadwood.
The guy Race is talking about is Ricky Jay--he's a magician along the lines of Penn & Teller, and he was on an X-Files episode.
It is The Gem. I keep doing the mental equivalent of double takes when they refer to it, because it sounds like they are talking about "the gym".
No, that was Tim Blake Nelson, though he looks like he could be a relative.
If you look at this picture, though, he looks like Jason Lee, so...
D'oh! The Gem ? That certainly makes a lot more sense.
Okay, Race was talking about This Guy.
Also, check out Best Lines from Deadwood. Fun!
Glad to see a thread on this. It's also good to see Walter Hill at the helm of Deadwood. Hill is a Hollywood fixture, and he's directed a few good pictures (48 Hours, The Warriors, Geronimo) and just a passel full of shit, including --
Last Man Standing (1996) Wild Bill (1995) Trespass (1992) Another 48 Hrs. (1990) Johnny Handsome (1989) Red Heat (1988) Extreme Prejudice (1987) Crossroads (1986) Brewster's Millions (1985) Streets of Fire (1984) Southern Comfort (1981), The Driver (1978) and Hard Times (1975).
That said, he's made one masterpiece - The Long Riders, which was a western and which included Keith Carradine. For my money, The Long Riders is a top ten American Western (along with, off the top of my head, Unforgiven, Red River, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers, The Ox Bow Incident, The Magnificent Seven, High Noon, Once Upon a Time in the West).
Good to see him back in the saddle. I love the series. And Hill owes.
Whoever is thinking up the outrageous thinks for Swearengen to say, I hope they are paying him or her well.
GET FUCKING!
SO & I laughed so much over this, we nearly lost the next few lines.
"I wasn't personally offering."
Bwah!!
My mother always referred to fundies as "holy rollers". As I kid, I remember asking her what that meant, and she explained that some people believe they get the spirit of De Lawd in them and start rolling around on the ground. Maybe that's what the preacher is. (Just kidding; it didn't seem to be a religious experience he was having.)
I think it's epilepsy -- the poor man probably thinks it's the devil in him.
Trixie cleans up quite well and actually seemed to be having fun with the little girl.
I thought is was a striking scene the little girl was staring out of the window, just like Alma and Trixie do.
I think I did miss a few lines because of laughing hard after "Get Fucking."
"The jury will now retire to the whores' rooms for deliberations!" My husband asked where he could get on a jury like that.
You think Seth will eventually hook up with Alma? Or Sol? (personally, I'd rather him hook up with ME)
Did you notice that when Annoying Preacher was having his seizure, he was flopping all the way out of his tent into passing foot traffic, and no one even paused to look down? Wouldn't you think that the preacher having a seizure would attract a little bit of notice? Weird.
I did notice that. I thought perhaps it was supposed to illustrate the callousness of the general Deadwood population, but now that I think about it, there should have been a crowd of gawkers spitting, laughing, and taking bets.
Obviously the little Norwegian girl is understanding English (and probably has all along), but I thought it was a bit odd that she seemed to be proud of Alma the second time E.B. came to visit. I wouldn't think she would understand what was going on enough to be like "Hey, GREAT job on faking like you're high on opium!"
That rock-head-bashing scene was just about the most visceral violence I can remember seeing on a tv show. OUCH.
Yeah, I thought they might be keeping the widow around as Seth's love interest, but now that I know he's married, I guess not. Maybe they plan to have her open some business or otherwise become a prominent/influential citizen (maybe the claim will pay out big-time?). It would be interesting to see how a woman-- other than the saloon girls and Calamity Jane-- would fare in that environment.
I think Al Swearengen is fast becoming one of my favorite tv characters. He was in particularly good form last night. The scene at the newspaper press was priceless ("So why not just say 'free'?"), and his skills as a host were noteworthy ("There's peaches and pears on the f***in' bar. Sort them out for yourselves!")
I really felt for him when the preacher had his epileptic fit. He was simultaneously so exasperated and so oddly, genuinely concerned.
I don't think Alma is destined for high-profile greatness, simply because she isn't a real historical character and they seem to be sticking to the (very) broad outline of real events. Maybe she'll end up taking over the Gem after Al's sad but inevitable demise, at the end of the series.
I agree about the rock to the Indian's head. Yuck.
The character that suprised me most last night was Trixie. I wonder how her resistance to Al's orders to get Alma to eat opium will play out.
Also, I thought the scene with Joanie was very interesting. I think she's going to play out into a complex character, and I was very curious to learn more about how she wound up in Deadwood.
What is Joanie's problem, anyway? I can't figure her out at all.
I think Trixie saw Alma as her ticket out from the very beginning. Trixie helps Alma kick opium, Alma helps Trixie out of Deadwood.
I loved the canned fruit. I also loved Swearengen walking in the room and immediately asking Trixie if she'd tossed it. Also? The doctor telling Calamity Jane that she can drink off hours like he does was priceless.
Last night was the first night he wasn't a thorough asshole.
I think Trixie is siding with Alma just to spite Al. And I think the little girl understood enough to know that something was being put over the bad guys (the people who are obviously disliked by the ones who take care of her).
I don't know what Joanie's deal is, either.
I love Jane's delivery. "Be careful." "BE FUCKED!"
Bwah! I loves me some Al Swearingen, myself.
Oh, man. Another ROFL moment, if you'll excuse the abbreviation.