Timothy Olyphant and John Hawkes in 2019’s Deadwood revival. The Deadwood project, never far from the mud but always mythic in its scope, thus finished on a sombre downswing. Even if the rivalry of combustible lawman Seth Bullock ( Timothy Olyphant) and sulphurous saloon kingpin Al Swearengen ( Ian McShane) had been resolved – or at least put on hold in the common interest of the camp – the abrupt ending still left a bushel of plot threads dangling. That corporate bushwhacking robbed Milch of the opportunity to craft any proper closure. Deadwood was cancelled by HBO in murky circumstances just before its third season aired in 2006. Perhaps that devotion lingers because they remember the sting of betrayal. Loyalty – a fluid commodity among the town’s dirtbags and desperadoes – has remained a constant among fans. Even now, to suggest this wildest of westerns is anything less than a masterpiece is to risk being lynched by its posse of admirers. W hen it debuted in 2004, David Milch’s 1870s-set gold rush drama combined brutal violence with goddamn gutter poetry.
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