#Deadwood season 3 episode 11 recap series#
The TV series opened with Timothy Olyphant as Seth Bullock, then a sheriff in Montana, confronted by a mob seeking its own brand of frontier justice. And history is so rich here - not only the history of statehood and progress, with railroads and telephone lines pushing relentlessly toward the town, but also the history of the characters.
Mostly, they are quick scenes of sex or violence, but they do add to the history.
#Deadwood season 3 episode 11 recap movie#
Now, in the movie, Hearst returns to Deadwood as a prominent politician, a seemingly more rational and genial man, ready to give a speech and expand his mining interests.ĭeadwood: The Movie folds in occasional flashbacks to remind us of its characters and their interactions.
But he left town at the end of the third season to return to California - where the real Hearst became a U.S. In the series version of Deadwood, Hearst (Gerald McRaney) was responsible for several deaths and was frighteningly ruthless and powerful. More than a dozen years later, a movie version of Deadwood has to serve as a reunion special, making room for the old show's surviving characters and actors. And you have to admire, and respect, the degree of difficulty in the task Milch faces - and how superbly he delivers. Series creator David Milch has written Deadwood: The Movie so that it can be seen and enjoyed as a stand-alone drama, but the more familiar you are with the history and residents of Deadwood, the more consistently thrilling this new HBO movie will be.
And that's a fact of life in Deadwood: The Movie as well. One famous figure who came to Deadwood early was Wild Bill Hickok, played by Keith Carradine, but Wild Bill didn't last long - one of the first reminders that, in this town and in this TV series, danger and death threatened every single character, no matter how prominent. The three seasons of the series Deadwood, which ran on HBO from 2004 until 2006, were set in a mining town in the territory of the Dakotas - the black mining hills sung about by Paul McCartney in "Rocky Raccoon." There was no established law there in 1876, when the first season of Deadwood is set, but there was plenty of gold and silver, which led to a quickly growing community of miners, laborers, gamblers, prostitutes, opportunists and outlaws. Foul-mouthed brothel owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) is back in HBO's Deadwood: The Movie.