Yes, I'm too cheap to pay for HBO. I will rent from Blockbuster, however. When returning DVDs last night they had Season 1 of Deadwood, so I rented and watched the first four episodes last night.
Amazingly filthy stuff (makes Nip/Tuck look modest in comparison) with fluent cursing. And people liked to call Spike and Angel evil ::shudder::
Lots of death in the first four episodes. I knew Wild Bill Hickcock {sp?} was doomed primarily due to history, but I had heard rumblings back when the series first aired. It's too bad because he was an interesting character-- flawed, heroic, and somewhat suicidal. The guy who played his murderer reminds me far too much of "All My Children's" psycho-Jonathan. The actors look very similar.
The show seems to take the same direction with history than Johnny Depp's "From Hell" did. Nothing is romanticized here. . .at least, not in a fluffy way. It's the historical equivalent of modern urban gang wars.
I like Saul (Sol?), Calamity Jane, and I'm undecided about Trixie and Alma (and her drug addiction). Alma seems intelligent, but there's something about her degree of cool that makes me not as warm to her as I'm perhaps meant to be. Al is heinous (and meant to be) but in a fascinating way. And I like his henchman (even if he does have to kill lots of people).
Not sure how wise it is to give pigs a taste for human flesh though. . .
All in all, interested but not sure how I feel about the series yet (but I will have finished Season 1 by next weekend I'm sure).
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