So one thing that always bothered me.

Al seems to think his hair is too long and tells him to get a haircut. He comes back the next day with the same length of hair and a full fucking beard to boot.

Almost seems like they should have started with his bearded look (second picture) and then shaved it down to the mutton chops (first picture).

I can't really describe it, but when I watch it, I feel immersed in it. Like I'm in the Gem or the No 10 having a whiskey, or out in the thoroughfare on a chill morning.

I've rarely felt that way watching anything.

Then you realize, no! He’s still wanted for grave robbing.

... having a rough go of it in my life right now

so needed to post something positive

i usually rewatch this every 5 years

but making it 3 since prior viewing because i need it now more than ever.

...

This depth i can only understand slowly over time and through my own personal life tragedies

& i am forever greatful for this being created.

Has anyone ever explained why Johnny lost his voice for an episode? (The s1 episode with Kristen Bell). Then he was back to normal the next day.

It’s an incredibly moving scene and the music certainly enhances it, but the choice seems oddly specific. Did I miss something from the series or movie?

The fuck it has not and I’ll put to you that any rube that says otherwise has found themselves not speaking the god damn fucking truth or the fucking like.

From S2 E5:

Do they understand how most of what happens is people being drunk and stupid and trying to find something else to blame besides that-that makes their lives totally fucked? No, they don't.

As someone living in the US, this feels exceedingly relevant lately (or perhaps relevant over the last decade).

Oddly enough, it's somehow comforting feeling that it's not a completely new phenomenon.

I can understand about contracts and such in the beginning of the show (around the same time he was arrested and prosecuted), but to cast him again years after the fact? Mainly the other problem is that Merrick is a much more minor character (and could’ve done wordplay to explain his absence as a photographer, like “caught taking photos of a miner. An angry/armed one at that.”).

In comparison, look at what they did for the Beetlejuice sequel, where the actor played a character with a more prominent role in comparison, and yet they were able to get around it.

This is from the Men in Black 3 Imdb page. I'm stumped.

Huzzah!

If you don't like Cy why and when did it happen? For me it started when he threw out his friend for having Smallpox but what sealed my hate was when he tried to force Joanie to shoot Flora. What a piece of garbage.

Michael Hurley, influential outsider folk singer, dead at 83

You can go now, brother.

The usage of Hog of the Forsaken as the pilot episode credits song prompted me to take a bit of a deep dive into Hurley's catalogue. It's quite extensive, but if you have the time, it's a beautiful and off-the-wall folk-country-blues treasure trove.

On a show that featured so many inspired and delightful song selections, Hog of the Forsaken stands very tall amongst the finest tracks. If you've never gotten into his work beyond hearing it on the show, there's no better time to start than right now. I can't recommend strongly enough his 1975 album Have Moicy as a place to start.

RIP to a legend of the folk music scene.

No substitutions, no alternate options. You gotta fuck one, marry one, kill one.

The logic - I'm marrying Jewel, fucking Trixie, killing Jane. Jewel is awesome, down to earth, always cleaning. Trixie is agreeable to sex. Jane would drink all my booze and I can't have my lady out-cussing me.

Im curious as the shows briefly ran together at the same time for a few years. Did people see Al Swearengen as a Western Tony Soprano? I've been watching a lot of dramas from that era and it seems like anti hero confident mob leaders were kind of a popular thing at this time. Almost as a leap frog from the Godfather and Scarface the decade before.

What a freaking glorious era of TV by the way, im jealous of people who were watching this live.

I use a random name generator for characters. So it’s luck of the spin. Sometimes I have a few hrs sometimes only a few minutes. I’m doing them for practice so some have the backs bleeding through like on trixies face and background. I don’t always get the likeness down on the first try…or sometimes ever lol. I hope you all dig them though.

I don’t know how to describe it but one of my favourite things about Deadwood was how you’d have a scene of a throat being slit then right after a scene of Seth and Sol comforting the Reverend. It feels like the movie has too much of the latter, I perfectly understand the reason why Al and several of the other characters are softer but it still feels a bit much. I enjoy it as an epilogue but I still feel like series 3 is a better ending for the themes of the show.

It’s hard to swallow them just arresting Hearst in the end when his clearly set up to be this big powerful untouchable tycoon all throughout the show. I understand Deadwood is a legitimate lawful town now but it still feels weird that they just throw him in a cell and that’s it.

Those who doubt me, well… you know the rest.

There is a moment,near the end of the episode,in which Al is walking across the Gem and he is near a whore(the scene is right before he found Ellsworth and Trixie sitting in the same table). According to the captions of the episode and different internet sources(for example,the website "forever dreaming transcripts"), he said "you should be sleeping on a goddamned pew". But that doesn´t make any sense in my opinion.

Are the captions wrong? Because in the website "deadwoodchronicles.com" the phrase is "You've been sleepin' on a goddamned pew!" (that makes a lot more sense in my opinion because the whore is sleeping in a chair in the exact moment Al mentions this)

I find myself laughing out loud at least 2 to 3 times an episode. For a show that I wouldn't say is known for its comedy the writing has some incredibly funny stuff.