Deadwood - The Complete First Season (2004)

A Western Like You've Never Seen Before

This series is, as many previous reviewers have said, positively addictive. Yes, you have to get past the language, which I agree is probably easily done by the second or third episode. Yes, it is violent, but the community depicted is so loaded with riveting characters and plotlines that the violence seems secondary and, actually, appropriate for the time. And the character played by Ian McShane has got to be an all-time great--he's violent and corrupt but if you listen to him talk you will be entranced and astounded by the almost poetic way he expresses himself and the sardonic humor he displays. I absolutely love this character. And playing opposite him are a group of characters no less riveting--his rival saloon keeper; the newly arrived, honorable and seething ex-lawman Bullock; the local doctor; the mysterious, aloof and passionate new widow; the prostitutes who deal with the two saloonkeepers; the sleazy hangers-on who eddy around the central figures; and on and on. If you can watch two episodes of this series and not be glued to it thereafter, I will be very, very surprised. This is every bit as good as The Sopranos and maybe better, and the writing is superb.

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