Deadwood - The Complete Third Season | Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane

Deadwood - The Complete Third Season | Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane | Deadwood The Complete Third Season

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Deadwood - The Com...

	Deadwood - The Complete Third Season Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane Home Box Office (HBO), 2007 average customer review:based on 100 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A great series

All three seasons have been great, and the quality of our DVD'd are excellent. We particularly like the historic extras.

Deadwood The Complete Third Season

The third season was not lacking in keeping one glued to the television. The story line was just as strong as the other two seasons, with the only disappointment being that it is the last season and the viewer is left wanting for more. Deciphering the complex relationships between existing characters and those introduced in this season keeps the audience guessing who's the good guy and who's the bad guy, and what could happen next. Overall, watching the third season is well worth the time, even when you watch it a seond time!

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Great show, great characters, one miscast.

I agree with many of the glowing reviews for Season III. Deadwood is a show with piss and vinegar characters, comically morbid scenes, and skewed Shakespearean dialogue. The principal annoyance from the first two seasons, Robin Wiegart's overkill portrayal of Calamity Jane, smoothes out and the actress hits her stride. Unfortunately, Timothy Olyphant (featured in the upcoming Hit Man), while mostly pitch perfect as lawman Seth Bullock, still has only one look while striding through the thoroughfare: gritted teeth, furrowed brow, wooden gait. This has not changed through three seasons, although the character finds enough other ways to show his boiling temper, so that this contrivance seems hardly necessary. And while others have been singing the praises of Gerald McRaney as Hearst, I must disagree. The part is extremely well written, true, but McRaney never sheds the aw shucks 80's teen movie Dad vibe and tone of voice (he might as well have just gotten off the train from Shermer, Illinois), so that the actor's attempts to glare menacingly fall flat and acts of extreme violence seem completely out of place. The gravitas of actors like McShane as Swearengen and Boothe as Cy Tolliver overpower McRaney, and when the script calls for them to be intimidated by him, it just doesn't feel truthful. Perhaps that's simply an indication of how high McShane set the bar for villainy in Season 1. This does some damage to season 3, as the show is all about power plays and intrigue. As a side note, once his "muscle" is dispatched, it is odd that, in a town with so little regard for human life, while bullying the town's power brokers, Hearst could simply stroll freely by himself, unencumbered. For the show to be consistent, it seems like he should be dead by about episode 7 (although this would have consequences, not to mention the historical inaccuracy), but Hearst opening the door to an irate Charlie Utter in the season finale after he stepped up security after the Trixie incident strikes me as odd. Even with these minor setbacks, Milcher and crew managed to create one of the most memorable shows on television.

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Deadwood Season 3

This seasons meets the bar set by the first two, but fails to leave the veiwer with any type of closure at the end. Season 3 definitely makes you want to see the 1st episode of Season 4.

Good acting , EXCITING drags, unsatisfying ending

SPOILER ALERT
I prefer a stronger good BEATING evil especially on the wrap up. A skilled cast of actors, not altogether wasted, is frittered away on a story which is diffused by side plots which seemed more designed to take up air time than contribute to what was going on (the theater guild people for example).

The villain gets what he ultimate wants--
--control of all the local mines
---destruction of a fledgling workers union
--assassination of a persistent, annoying enemy
--killing of person he thought was responsible for the attempt on his life
then rides away into the sunset.
Sure he gets embarrassed a few times, but he wins. He's THE biggest employer in town, now watch wages drop 36%.

The series is pseudo -historical meaning there are a few characters that REALLY lived,, but deeds they done vary greatly from their historical counterparts. Rather than the angst of the Theater guild, the plot would have been better spent having that eras President (Grant?) travel in from Washington. Then maybe Bullock and Friends could foil the President's assassination and assumption of that fine office by Hearst the Villain.

As hokum as that might be, it certainly would be more satisfying than watching how the good guys posture while signing over the mine and which innocent hoe gets throated to appease Hearst lest he throw a tantrum.

I give 3 Stars for
+1--good acting
+1--unique Western series
+1--overall atmosphere effects
-1--sluggish plot polluted by irrelevant side plots
-1--weaker than the 2 seasons that preceded it

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