Deadwood

[KineticPoet]

Anyone hooked on this new HBO series yet. I'm liking it more than the Sopranos. Although the swearing was almost distracting at times in the first few episodes, this story keeps getting better and better.


I was sad to see Wild Bill go so early. :ugg:

I knew as soon as he gave Jack money for food that was gonna be it, as that's how it played out in stories that I've read.

 

[Okiewan]

The swearing? Yeah, they use words that weren't even words in the time. Distracting is an understatement.

 

[KineticPoet]

Well, I think it has mellowed just a tad from the first few episodes, but you're right, it can be a bit much.

I think I was almost turned off by it but I stayed tuned in and I have decided that I like the show.

“My visions of locusts return. I see Pinkertons coming in swarms.”
—Al Swearengen

Thats good stuff, man.

 

[MrLuckey]

I caught one episode - what nights is it on?

 

[KineticPoet]

Sunday night. Right after Sopranos.

http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/episode/season1/episode01.shtml

Here's an episode guide, in case you missed a few. Might be hard to pick it up in the 5th episode and understand whats been going on, but that should help.

Last Friday they ran a Marathon to get everyone caught up in case you missed out the first time. I suspect they'll be playing all of them over again pretty soon.

 

[BEEF706]

Same reaction, I'm hooked on the show but if you're gonna have em swear a lot (like Calamity Jane really did) then at lest use ninteenth century swear words.

 

[BigBore]

I'm hooked on it too. According to an article I read in Newsweek (or maybe it was Time...), those words were around at the time.

 

[Okiewan]

I guess there's no way to know other than through historic writings, but... I was mistaken about one of them. There are several myths about one of them, "the "F-word". Let's see if I can get this posted without offending or breaking the forum rules, lol;

Having consulted the definitive reference work on this subject (yes, there is such a thing: "The F-Word" by Jesse Sheidlower, published by Random House in 1999), we feel confident in dismissing the above claims as imaginative bunk. (Fornication Under Consent of the King, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge)

The word "f" did not originate as an acronym. It crept, fully formed, into the English language from Dutch or Low German around the 15th century — it's impossible to say precisely when because so little documentary evidence exists, probably due to the fact that the word was so taboo throughout its early history that people were afraid to write it down. (The American Heritage Dictionary says its first known occurrence in English literature was in the satirical poem, "Flen, Flyss" (c.1500), where it was both disguised as a Latin word and encrypted — "gxddbov," deciphered as "fuccant," pseudo-Latin for "they f.")

Maybe it's the way it's used in the show, meaning it sounds a lot like current slang/phrases?

 

[BEEF706]

Yeah too much of the cursing is just gratuitous. Sounds like a munch of 7th grade boys just learning to cuss. Did any of you guys ever play the drinking game "hi Bob" to the Bob Newhart show. If you did the same thng for the f-word or c*******er with this show you would be knee crawlin 10 minutes in.

 

[Gary B.]

I've been watching. Agree with you guys on the swearing. Wether or not it's historically(sp?) correct, I think the cussing is a bit much for prime time even these days. It won't be the same show without Bill. He was my hero.