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 Deadwood - The Complete Third Season :: 076570448X
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| (Rolling Stone) "The Best Drama on Television" is back with the third season on DVD! Timed to coincide with Father's Day, HBO will release Deadwood: The Complete Third Season DVD on June 12, 2007. Watch as the lawless era of Deadwood comes to an end. This DVD is loaded with bonus features including two featurettes, audio commentaries and more. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
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Author: Guest
If you watch the series- you will understand the title-
Very entertaining and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing and a lot of cussing.
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Author: Guest
Deadwood is is the BEST show ever! Al Swearengen made the show & will forever be the biggest baddest character in television history. I can't believe HBO cancels all these great shows! This masterpiece could have gone many more years and all of us Deadwood fans could have had something to look forward to.
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Author: Guest
The wait is almost over and I will soon be able to watch Al rip people a new one every single day... My girlfriend is going to go nuts when I get my very own copy of Deadwood Season 3...
WHY MUST IT END!? Damn you HBO for not renewing the actor's contracts!
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Author: Guest
(WARNING: possible spoilers abound.)
Immediately off, you can call my thoughts toward "Deadwood" as completely, unequivocally biased; however, for those who appreciate film and moreover, dialogue, then I say with every ounce of passion afforded to me that you should find this series at once. Ever since the first episode of the first season, David Milch's wizardry as not only a writer, but as a thinker, has enthralled me. Watching the bonus features of the first two seasons, and seeing as Milch prepares the actor(s) for a scene, it's wondrous how he does it. His artistic vision ordinates with this series so eloquently, it's bare wonderment.
With that said, I admit one thing: the third season definitely did not overpower either of its predecessors. It was remarkable, outstanding and absolutely heart-wrenching, particularly the concluding tirade from Al on his childhood, but in the end every aspect of it wasn't nearly as taut as the first or second serving. Don't mistake that for appreciation that the series is ending, either, because nobody wishes it would stay more than I do, but the finale of the third season just wasn't spectacular. Not because it ended badly for all in the camp, but more `cause it was so abruptly pushed that nothing seemed to close. It's the series' trademark, no doubt, but it still left me feeling empty, and watching Ian McShane, as glorious as the man may be, fading out of shot as he scrubs the [expletive deleted] bloodstain, while beautiful, nevertheless just wasn't enough.
But it doesn't matter. Some can say it holds no light at all against "The Sopranos," or "The Wire," or even "Rome," but that's not true; as great as the other series are, they're not "Deadwood," not in writing or acting or down-right seduction, and that fact alone makes me smile. The show was never received commercially, and it never won nearly enough awards as it should have, but it was always breathing and it was fresh, and plotlines throughout were magnificent and alive.
More in me would give anything to have David Milch recant his decision on ending the series, but just as heartily I respect his decision for doing so. When it comes to this, there's nothing left to do but wait for the two two-hour episodes to air and see how he concluded it; though, even with that in mind, I've read rumors that he might not even be able to finish them, which, frankly, is nonsense. For those aware of this situation, pray they will be done, and, I don't know, watch more "Deadwood."
I guess that's all. There's a lot more I can say, but it doesn't matter; "Deadwood" isn't the type of show that really grows on people, I think, or at least not for me. In my experience, you will either watch the show and get it, appreciate and out-rightly admire the writing efforts; or you will watch the show and be so disgusted by the language that you'll shut it off and, likely, go watch "Lost" or "House, M.D." or something. In truth, though, I hope more people let "Deadwood" into their souls and really allow themselves to be engrossed by the vast radiance that has been the screenwriting. The Shakespearean beauty (if that's not enough), notwithstanding, the broad story within itself is worth the light of ten thousand suns.
For those familiar with this masterpiece, I salute you; for the rest of you, I beseech that you find it immediately and bask in it. As little as I'm sure anyone cares now, at any rate, it's still heartbreaking to know how such an exceptionally life-changing work of art begins to draw to an end.
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Author: Guest
The third, and possibly final, season of HBO's critically acclaimed Deadwood had it's share of slow moving moments to be sure, but the series as a whole lived up to the excellent precedent set by the previous two seasons of the show. As the third season opens, sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) makes a run for re-election, which gets side tracked by forging an uneasy alliance with Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) against the vendictive George Hearst (Gerald McRaney) who comes to the camp with some deadly plans for everyone involved. The lives of newly weds Alma Garret (Molly Parker) and Whitney Ellsworth (Jim Beaver), as well as Sol (John Hawkes) and Trixie (Paula Malcomson) are in jeopardy as Hearst prepares to wreak bloody havoc, which is mainly what this season of the series is focused on. Also during this season, we witness the recovery of Cy (Powers Boothe), as well as bonding between Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) and Joanie (Kim Dickens), and the debilitating health of Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif). If you've been a fan of the show for some time, you know what to expect with Deadwood in terms of it's vulgarity and violence, so if you're new to the show, you won't really be won over by anything here. That being said, the third season of Deadwood is some truly great TV regardless, and the ensemble cast as usual is superb; with Olyphant, McShane, and McRaney being the best of the bunch. As the previous reviewer stated, if this is indeed the final season of the show with no other kind of resolution, there isn't any real cliffhanger that leaves the viewer cursing at the screen (a la Carnivale). That being said, hopefully this isn't the last hurrah for Deadwood, and there will be another chapter before these characters ride off into the sunset.
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