No fans of Deadwood on here?
No, I tried to like it, but found it boring and demeaning. The biggest problem with any story is finding someone within the story that you can identify with and pull for, with Deadwood I could not connect with any of the characters. Further, I thought the script was too cartoonish for its own good.
It was interesting listening to the writer’s interview explaining how he developed that style of dialogue. He said his reading of American newspapers for that period revealed this very heavy, leaden prose. I’m sure you’ve heard the show called “Shakespearean.” Coupled with the constant vulgarities, which are not technically accurate, but give the modern listener the relative level of off-color language.
In other words, they didn’t use the F bomb and other of the worst gutter talk then, but the profanity they did use would SOUND about that dirty to someone in those times as the Deadwood dialogue sounds by modern standards.