Deadwood DVD box set, just in time for Chistmas!
Posted by: Chris Hails in TV, Westerns Add comments
A story by Bruce Dancis in the Houston Chronicle has just caught my eye, what with the DVD buying Christmas season approaching!
John Wayne would have hated Deadwood.
Since Wayne referred to the 1952 Western High Noon as “the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life” because of its depiction of frontier townspeople as cowardly, it’s reasonable to assume that the conservative cowboy actor would have despised David Milch’s HBO series.
With just days to go (for presents arriving by post anyway) HBO have just released a new box set of the three seasons of their infamous western TV show set on the 1870s frontier.
I usually like a good HBO series, Six Feet Under being a great example of the risk-taking channel. The freedom to swear so frequently in a TV show always seemed to me to add realism to a medium where ‘damn’ is usually the nastiest insult on prime time British TV.
I never did catch many episodes of this show though perhaps because I could never get my head round Lovejoy being evil!
Ian McShane is a fine actor but having grown up with the genteel ramblings of an East Anglian antiques expert I never could see past that loveable rogue exterior. Now I know why David Tennant fears Dr Who typecasting…
Anyway, our American cousins can now take advantage of the new box set with extra features on the town and ideas for future movies. In the UK you’ll have to make do with the heavily discounted old edition on Amazon.
Before you rush off though be sure to vote on my Deadwood poll:
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