tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post5700018272718710264..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: The Milch Studies: DEADWOOD Season One - “Okay, What If We Do It As A Western?”Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-4706792303403524752017-07-15T04:33:31.977-05:002017-07-15T04:33:31.977-05:00Bullock -- “helps with the drop” since the fall fr...<i>Bullock -- “helps with the drop” since the fall from the porch isn’t actually enough to kill him. (Meaning Bullock physically pulls the man’s body down until he finally chokes.)</i><br /><br />I understand he rather yanks the man so he breaks his neck to kill him quickly, which I believe was the idea how it was supposed to happen when done correctly, as opposed to the horrible slow suffocation by strangulation. This was the usual concern for the customer behind the worry if there's "enough drop".<br /><br />I have had the episodes waiting for my attentions on my internet tivo thingy for two years now. I'll try to binge to stay in pace for season two review.<br /><br />Gosh, there's not much of the lovable rogue that is the dealer-in-antiques Lovejoy to be found in Ian McShane's performance.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-20810516308913510302017-07-05T12:41:20.022-05:002017-07-05T12:41:20.022-05:00I've been skimming your Milch articles, but I ...I've been skimming your Milch articles, but I haven't had much to contribute since I never watched any of the shows. I did, however, watch DEADWOOD and I mostly liked it. If nothing else, it introduced me to Ian McShane and Timothy Olyphant (the latter of whom went on to portray one of my favorite TV characters in JUSTIFIED), and reaffirmed my love of Powers Boothe (I'm still bummed about his death).<br /><br />I liked this series well enough, though I wouldn't say it set my world on fire. And there was way, way too much profanity. I'm not exactly a prude, but this show just piled it on to the point of absurdity. I get Milch was trying to shock viewers, but it was just too much most of the time. I vastly prefer judiciously used swearing over non-stop curse-fests.<br /><br />Anyway, since this one I actually watched and remember, I'll be paying closer attention to your posts on it!Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-90899713487807169092017-07-03T22:04:29.988-05:002017-07-03T22:04:29.988-05:00In one of those YouTube videos, someone tries to p...In one of those YouTube videos, someone tries to prod Milch into discussing the critical praise for the show, and he comes close to saying there wasn't much. Outside of Ian McShane's Golden Globe win, Milch couldn't come up with too many examples of critics fawning over the series. It has been oddly overlooked in a way, but it's continued to endure after its death, unlike many of the other HBO series from the era.G. Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12279461069684403792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-70548180288039650192017-07-03T21:49:45.926-05:002017-07-03T21:49:45.926-05:00"Deadwood" is, in my opinion, the most u..."Deadwood" is, in my opinion, the most underrated of HBO's "prestige" programming from around the turn of the century. "The Sopranos" had a monstrous audience, "The Wire" was the Hope diamond of critical fawning, "Six Feet Under" had the gimmickry, "Rome" poured on the sex and violence with buckets while other shows used brushes, and "Big Love"... uh, "Big Love" had five seasons somehow. <br /><br />And "Deadwood" seemed to run under the radar of just about all of them at some point or another. It's a damned shame(or should I say "motherfucking shame?") too, because it's such a unique and often beautiful show, with characters and scenes that stand up to the best of HBO's other series. A decade ago, Todd VanDerWerff over at the AV Club proposed "Deadwood," "Rome" and "The Wire" as a perfect trifecta of exploring a society's birth, maturity and decline (respectively.) And that's one of "Deadwood's" hidden charms: for all its visual and moral crudeness, there's an underlying thread of optimism in scenes like the occasional informal town meetings (and how they become more formal as the series progresses.)Bobnoreply@blogger.com