Childish Things. Tom’s bicycle ride across the thoroughfare. It’s a sweet, happy moment in a hard place, and all the killers, vice merchants, miners and whores seem to appreciate the respite.

It’s a lovely moment in a highly visceral series. Deadwood is the best screenwriting I’ve ever appreciated, and it is shot beautifully, too. The acting is superlative.

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stumpcity t1_jdy3p56 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:03 AM

My favorite line from that whole show is in that episode:

"My bicycle masters boardwalk and quagmire with aplomb! Those that doubt me? Suck cock by choice"

It's not the BEST line in the show, but the combination of frills+filth is so pitch perfect, to me, that it's the one I love the most.

aestus t1_jdyug1m wrote on March 28, 2023 at 4:41 AM

The way the writing veers between shakespearean and potty mouth is a thing of absolute cocksucking beauty.

A quote I like: When I say, 'Go fuck yourself, Sheriff,' will you put that down to drunkenness or a high estimate of your athleticism?"

Dogbuysvan t1_je0agdc wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:23 PM

Shakespeare was pretty filthy back in the day. Not as bad as Chaucer though.

SinisterDexter83 t1_je0im61 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:17 PM

Yeah, Chaucer would have thought the writers of Deadwood were a ryghte bunch O quyntes.

DirectionNew5328 OP t1_jdy4skl wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:11 AM

I always thought it was sweet Tom felt the need to qualify choice, leaving the sordid sexual violence many of them, male and female, had probably experienced, alone.

FlaccidGhostLoad t1_jdzhgcf wrote on March 28, 2023 at 9:51 AM

The best line in the show is;

"He's picklin' his prick in the cunt brine of another."

DrRichardDiarrhea t1_je0etwa wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:52 PM

Personal fav…

“I’ll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.”

Ellsworth

Phreakdoubt t1_je1a2rs wrote on March 28, 2023 at 6:10 PM

That line leave my lips at least once every time I have a few drinks. Pure, profane poetry.

logicalnoise t1_jdy4a6s wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:07 AM

The few truly happy moments in that show are all beautiful.

DirectionNew5328 OP t1_jdy4l8w wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:10 AM

At the end of season 1, when Doc and Jewell are dancing to Green Grow the Lilacs… just gorgeous.

ToeJelly420 t1_jdy1vrl wrote on March 28, 2023 at 12:50 AM

cocksucker

univoxs t1_jdyzt25 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 5:41 AM

Correction: San Francisco Cocksucker

willtag70 t1_jdy5zbr wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:20 AM

Hard to think of another series that played its instrument at such a high and consistent level. A unique achievement.

DirectionNew5328 OP t1_jdy6b25 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:22 AM

And the allusion. The meter… just a triumph.

mr_scorpion_sir t1_jdywvcr wrote on March 28, 2023 at 5:07 AM

I just finished this episode 5 minutes ago by chance and I love the scene at the end where the doc finds the dead Chinese girl in a cage and yells at Woollcott. Great episode.

CubistMUC t1_jdzfvq9 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 9:29 AM

This series was a real gem.

It is sad that it ended so early.

fredbrightfrog t1_jdzaosb wrote on March 28, 2023 at 8:11 AM

I only watched Deadwood for the first time a couple months ago.

I usually binge stuff, but it was so good I forced myself to alternate with other shows so that it wouldn't be over too fast.

Johnnycc t1_je04v89 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:44 PM

“Go on, my son!”

jake831 t1_je1hvn0 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 6:59 PM

Well I guess it's time for a Deadwood re-watch, then I know I'll have to keep my Timothy Olyphant man crush rolling so I'll have to watch some Justified as well.