But Al’s not exactly going gently into that good night, railing with blasphemous brio against the indignities of infirmity while lamenting the loss of his famous libido, though admittedly he’s “become more and more forgetful of what that whole sordid business is to signify.” “It’s the dispatch I find inglorious,” he confides to Brad Dourif’s kindly Doc Cochran. Watching over the town from the balcony of his brothel, as always, is McShane’s shockingly frail Swearengen, waylaid by an over-abused liver and nearing death’s door. Gerald McRaney (pictured standing in the horse carriage) as George Hearst in "Deadwood: The Movie." (Courtesy Warrick Page/HBO) The thoroughfare is filled for a celebration of South Dakota’s induction into the United States of America - an event bringing together old friends and enemies, including the aforementioned widow Ellsworth and our repugnant villain Hearst, now the junior senator from California. Our muddy mining town has flourished into a full-fledged mini-metropolis, complete with telephone poles studding the streets and buildings made of brick and stone.
“Deadwood: The Movie” picks up in 1889, 10 years after the shattering events of season three. You finish the show yearning for a redemption that was never able to be filmed. As an ending it felt agonizingly incomplete, not to mention antithetical to Milch’s humane, optimistic worldview. The final shot found Swearengen on his hands and knees, trying to scrub a blood puddle from the floor as it spread like a stain upon the community’s collective soul.
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The series ended in exactly the wrong spot, with the camp brought low and complicit in the killing of an innocent in order to appease murderous millionaire George Hearst, played by the terrifying Gerald McRaney as a rapacious, drawling creature of unfettered capitalism. It was an R-rated story with a G-rated heart, about folks who can’t help but come together and look out for one another, which is how civics and civilizations are born. Say what you will about the ill-mannered, potty-mouthed people of Deadwood, they had a knack for rising to the occasion when least expected.
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(His breathtaking deployment of a certain 10-letter obscenity proved astonishingly adaptable to all parts of speech, notably thriving in gerund form.) Yet for all the cussin’ and bloody tusslin’ in the muck, “Deadwood” viewed its filthy mining camp full of misfits, hoopleheads and whores with uncommon generosity.Įven Swearengen - a vicious pimp and unrepentant murderer - turned out to have hidden streaks of kindness and decency underneath his soiled long-johns and pinstripe suit, brilliantly manipulating characters and events to protect the burgeoning town’s best interests while outwardly insisting he was only looking out for his own. When it premiered in 2004, the program became instantly notorious for its pungent period details, blunt sexuality, graphic violence and, above all, the soaring arias of profanity carried to Shakespearean heights by Ian McShane’s aptly named Al Swearengen. Dayton Callie (left) as Charlie Utter and Molly Parker as Alma Ellsworth in "Deadwood: The Movie." (Courtesy Warrick Page/HBO) “It is my considerable happiness to see you again,” swoons Molly Parker’s twice-widowed Alma Ellsworth upon being reunited with her long-ago lover, Sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant), “as if a dream might come alive to draw breath.” For die-hard fans, these 110 minutes will feel very much like a dream indeed, one full of fond, familiar faces in which old wrongs are righted, amends are made and everyone takes a turn on the dance floor before getting a proper, sentimental sendoff. That it turned out to be this terrific is cause for celebration.
The fact that “Deadwood: The Movie” even exists at all is something of a logistical miracle.
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For more than a decade, fans left dangling by season three’s abrupt, unresolved ending have clung to whispers and rumors of a two-hour movie that would wrap things up - an undertaking that seemed impossible given the scale of the production, plethora of plotlines and busy schedules of its sprawling ensemble cast.
Timothy Olyphant as Sheriff Seth Bullock and John Hawkes as Sol Star in "Deadwood: The Movie." (Courtesy Warrick Page/HBO) This article is more than 2 years old.ĭavid Milch’s short-lived and long-lamented HBO western “Deadwood” gets a belated series finale this Friday night, some 13 years after being unexpectedly canceled just before production was to begin on the show’s fourth season.
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