We've come to the end of our summer trip back through the first season of David Milch's epic revisionist Western  "Deadwood,"  and we're continuing to do it with two separate but largely identical posts: one for people who watched the whole seri more

We're continuing our trip back through the first season of David Milch's epic revisionist Western "Deadwood,"  and we're continuing to do it with two separate but largely identical posts: one for people who watched the whole series and want to be abl more

The most important passage in all of "Deadwood" appears in this episode, and it features language that David Milch didn't write. The scene is the funeral of Wild Bill Hickok, and the passage is the Reverend Smith's quoting of St. Paul's epistles to the Co more

We're continuing our trip back through the first season of David Milch's epic revisionist Western "Deadwood,"  and we're continuing to do it with two separate but largely identical posts: one for people who watched the whole series and want to be abl more

"Deadwood" is fundamentally a series about the work and sacrifices necessary to bring order to chaos, civilization to lawlessness. This brutal, amoral mining camp had a long, complicated road towards becoming a place that could acceptably be absorbed into more

"I see  as much misery out of them movin' to justify their selves as them that set out to do harm."  -Doc Cochran Last week, I talked about how the series pilot seemed to be setting up three central characters in Bullock, Wild Bill and Swearenge more

It's time once again for this year's summer DVD rewind here at What's Alan Watching? In summers past, I've dealt with the likes of "Freaks and Geeks," "Firefly," "Sports Night" and the first few seasons of "The Wire," among others. This year's candidate i more