[BluegrassScholar]

The Chinese are well representd on Deadwood and critical to many of the plot lines. There was one episode where the principle story line was the murder of one of the opium traffickers and Mr. Wu's attempt to leverage Swearengen for justice.

As for the profanity, Milch claims it's historically accurate. It's obvious in watching the show and then reading about the real Deadwood, that he's done his homework. But it's not just the profanity, it's the syntax used in the scripts that I find equally striking.

[bannie]

I don't get HBO...but I do appreciate authenticity.

I'm under no delusions that those in the Old West were dainty or well-mannered! Life was harsh!!! They were missing half of their teeth, they were skinny, and their lives were short.

I'm glad that the show is realistic. I'll have to see it when it comes out on dvd's.

:)

[mumbo]

Yep. The Victorian syntax salted with the Anglo-Saxon profanity is a strangely addicting device. You almost have to visualize the spoken words as a written sentence to understand a lot of the humor, too. I laugh a lot more than my wife, because she can't build the sentences in her head. You really have to listen to the dialog.

EB Farnum: "An august commencement to my administration, waiting outside the door for a degenerate t!t-licker to pass."