Deadwood REACTION - 3x12
Added 2020-07-04 04:01:35 +0000 UTC
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I'm not kidding - Cullen Bohannon is one of the best Western characters to grace the screen (and I'm a big western fan) and the Swede is one of the genre's best and most unconventional villains. He's like the old west Joker with a flawless Norwegian accent.
The Dork Knight
2020-07-06 18:40:32 +0000 UTCBased purely on what you just said, you will adore the show.
The Dork Knight
2020-07-06 18:38:56 +0000 UTCThere's a lot I have to say about this finale but I need to formulate my thoughts. A lot of my feelings on it were from years of it being the ending and the idea of more seeming impossible, but now the movie exists and changes things but that's a relatively new development. One thing I'll say is that I agree with you Jimmy that it feels more conclusive than some people give it credit for; there was definitely for years a popular notion that it totally fails to conclude in any way as if its like the dangling plotlines and cliffhanger of HBO's cancelled Carnivale, but I think a lot ties up nicely. I especially like the way it ties into the very beginning. This whole series started with a real community of like minded strangers forming in the camp around the idea of saving a young innocent blonde girl from Al's blade, and ends with a fully formed society and founding class in a city of Deadwood dutifully rallying around allowing an innocent blonde girl to be ended by Al's blade. It's dark and bleak but it says a lot about how violence is not eradicated but simply different as society congeals, it shows change in Bullock, a somewhat dark change, as he puts aside his old do gooder morals to allow this murder to save his friends girlfriend. The whole thing with Johnny...despite there being justified reasons for the dark deed, there's no getting around that Deadwood has a ruling class and Al is a part of it and so now is Trixie through Al, Sol, and Alma, and Johnny is of a lower caste as is as is Jenny. And so when Al and the rest side with their feelings, as Dan puts it, those on the bottom of the new Deadwood pecking order suffer for the greater good AND for the feelings of those in charge. There's a lot of moral gray to it as an ending, fitting as there is a lot of that to the whole series.
Michael
2020-07-06 05:32:25 +0000 UTCI'm very curious about that show but I vaguely recall a lot of negative reviews when it debuted, but then again the same thing kept me away from Black Sails for years and now that's one of my favorite shows. Deadwood is my absolute favorite...knowing that, do you think I'd dig HoW too?
Michael
2020-07-06 05:23:27 +0000 UTCAfter Deadwood you should definitely check out Hell On Wheels. I'd place money on Cullen Bohannon becoming one of your top ten all time fictional characters.
The Dork Knight
2020-07-06 00:53:59 +0000 UTCDo you have any plans to check out the tv show "Orphan Black"?
Tanner
2020-07-05 00:26:42 +0000 UTC
