(See? Heart.) You'll lose her for a few episodes after Hickok is killed and she disappears into the woods to drink for many days on end, but when she does return she works at a makeshift smallpox hospice, befriends a madam after a run-in with a psychopathic killer, and eventually helps care for the camp's schoolchildren. Arriving at camp with Wild Bill Hickok-a man she had an obsessively close friendship with-she mostly just does a lot of cussing at the beginning of Season 1 until she finds herself helping care for a little girl whose family was killed by road agents outside of town. However, Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) is not only quick with a drunken one-liner, but ultimately proves to be the heart and soul of a town desperately lacking in both things. To say you love Deadwood is like saying you love the worst people in town (it was making us fall for antiheroes long before Walter White broke bad), but aren't those the most interesting people to know?īest Character to Follow: Every character in Deadwood is colorful, to put it mildly.
At the end of the day we're all hoopleheads, and c*cksuckers, and motherf*ckers-it's just that in Deadwood, everyone's up front about it. And it will always one day become evident that those two people really aren't that different at all. There will always be generally honest people like hardware-store-owner-turned-sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant), and there will always be guys like saloon/whorehouse operator Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) who ruthlessly pursue their own interests. Most are based on real people who, although liberties were taken, actually did a lot of what happens on Deadwood-right down to the moment Wild Bill Hickok met his end.)ĭeadwood, in that sense, is a microcosm of every new society. (If you really want to fact-check, watch the show with your laptop open and Google the characters. If you've ever wondered why America seems incapable of going a month without some political or corporate scandal, throw on an episode of Deadwood and realize that the nation was largely built by crooks who would do anything to get rich or get by.
("Gabriel's trumpet will produce you from the ass of a pig." Direct quote.) It's also a people's history of the United States from a time (1876) before Deadwood itself was even part of the union. What Milch created with Deadwood was something of an American masterpiece-a piece of historical fiction where pimps, whores, gold miners, and tomboy drunks give profanity-laden soliloquies worthy of Shakespeare.
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