Deadwood on Blu!

[hoytereden]

It's up for pre-order on Amazon. (no release date though ) The complete series for $147. I'm in.

[Steve T Power]

I'll drink to that!

[Dave Ryan]

The picture quality on the SD discs is so good, I don't really see a need to upgrade. Good option if you don't own the regular set, though, I suppose....

[cdouglas]

The picture quality on the SD discs is so good, I don't really see a need to upgrade. Good option if you don't own the regular set, though, I suppose....

You're technically right, but I have a feeling I'll be upgrading anyway. Curse my HD addiction...

[Steve T Power]

The picture quality on the SD discs is so good, I don't really see a need to upgrade. Good option if you don't own the regular set, though, I suppose....

You're technically right, but I have a feeling I'll be upgrading anyway. Curse my HD addiction...

I dumbed my SD versions (along with Rome) as soon as both series were rumored to be coming (so as to maximize profits!) Of course that failed when Deadwood didn't materialize alongside Rome like the rumor mill had stated it would... F**cking C**ks**kers!

[Future Man]

The language ruined the show for me. Then I heard the creator give a #%$*@ interview or commentary or whatnot and it all came perfectly clear.

[HGervais]

First off all the language is accurate depiction of the way the people spoke. If bad words put you off by all means walk away but you are missing out on a certain kind of poetry that while certainly profane is also kind of beautiful. Any actor I know worth their salt would kill to speak that kind of writing.

[Future Man]

First off all the language is accurate depiction of the way the people spoke. If bad words put you off by all means walk away but you are missing out on a certain kind of poetry that while certainly profane is also kind of beautiful. Any actor I know worth their salt would kill to speak that kind of writing.

You will never convince me that the word "strange" was ever employed as a noun back then. Be that as it may, by your logic all westerns should be rife with sixteen letter words, since otherwise they fall short in depicting the way people routinely spoke at the time. As for the poetic and beautiful, Shakespeare has a way with salty descriptions that are undeniably poetic and beautiful despite their subject matter. The dialogue in this show I see not so much as poetic and beautiful as crass and juvenile.

[HGervais]

Deadwood took the language of the gutter, much David Mamet, and elevated it to something else entirely. That you find it crass & juvenile is probably the most unsurprising opinion I will read for the next few days.

On a David Milch note, HBO takes Milch & Mann's racetrack pilot, Luck, to series.

[hoytereden]

I never owned the DVD set. Hell; I've never seen it but it's a western and I've deliberately resisted buying it until the Blu-ray was available. Really looking forward to this.

[cdouglas]

For my money, Deadwood featured some of the most consistently compelling dialogue in the history of television. Full of profanity, but poetic and musical in its construction. It owes a lot to Mamet, but it's in a category all its own. While I don't think it's terribly realistic in terms of how people spoke in the old west (not so much the specific words as the order in which they are delivered), I could listen to the characters on that show just sit around and talk for hours on end.