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

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cocksucker

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

#2,405,672

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.

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

#2,405,781

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

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

#2,405,826

Replying to logicalnoise (#2,405,781)

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

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

#2,405,862

Replying to stumpcity (#2,405,672)

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.

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

#2,406,074

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

#2,406,118

Replying to willtag70 (#2,406,074)

And the allusion. The meter… just a triumph.

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

#2,409,720

Replying to stumpcity (#2,405,672)

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?"

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

#2,410,059

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.

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

#2,410,463

Replying to ToeJelly420 (#2,405,413)

Correction: San Francisco Cocksucker

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

#2,411,714

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.

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

#2,412,265

This series was a real gem.

It is sad that it ended so early.

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

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Replying to stumpcity (#2,405,672)

The best line in the show is;

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

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

#2,416,185

“Go on, my son!”

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

#2,417,296

Replying to aestus (#2,409,720)

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

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

#2,418,029

Replying to FlaccidGhostLoad (#2,412,451)

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

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

#2,418,650

Replying to Dogbuysvan (#2,417,296)

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

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

#2,423,380

Replying to DrRichardDiarrhea (#2,418,029)

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

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

#2,424,768

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.