For this week's TV Rewind, dandock writes on why it's never a bad time to return to HBO's exceptional Deadwood
, debuting in 2004 and lasting just three short seasons before being abruptly canceled. The brainchild of TV-writing legend David Milch, it’s a series that uses the titular town in 1870s South Dakota to tell a story about how a community organizes itself through the law, money, violence, and simple hope and good will. That last part is often in short supply, but despite’s grime and renowned use of curse words, it’s also deeply humane and at times spiritual in its thematics.
But the series’ cast is expansive, and excellent from top to bottom. It includes the likable Charlie Utter ; alcoholic heart of the series “Calamity” Jane ; forthright prostitute Trixie ; the soulful Sol Star ; good-hearted Ellsworth ; the Civil War-haunted Doc Cochran ; pathetic hotel owner E.B. Farnum ; and many others.
And yet, there is no clear-cut attempt at a moral lesson. Just as Al Swearengen once said, “No one gets out alive;” no characters emerge unscathed, and the way that many of them deal with their innate vileness is continually fascinating. Swearengen and Bullock, each dealing with an internal struggle with their own capacity for cruelty, never become pure hero or villain. Instead, they survive to be as noble as the world allows them, with circumstance and self-loathing intermingling as one.
Those who come to the series looking for cowboy shootouts and John Wayne antics will not be totally displeased. However, the murder in the show, for the most part, is never treated as anything less than heavy necessity or ghoulish backlash. At the end of the first episode, a man lays gunned down in the muddy street, having been all but executed for his crimes. But there is no glory or rootin’ tootin’ sense of justice.
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