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Oh yeah. It was also an eloquent defense of what seems to be a major theme for Milch this season: the ability of art - theater and words (such as in Bullock's letter) - to lift every person out of the muck of their lives and become better people and a real community. Not white-fonted because that's no spoiler.
Cool. And Swearingen bitched about the entertainments but in the end, he'd thought about what he would do. He had a good voice, considering.
I thought the song to moose was showstopping, myself.
Deadwood: Al's song at teh edn was interesting. He said early on that he'd never been to one of John's performances. DH noticed that none of the power players were at Amateur Night: Bullock, Swearingen, Hearst and Tolliver were all tucked away alone in their lairs.
E.B. making Richardson stop juggling was such a bummer.
More Deadwood: Alma wasn't there, either. Amateur Night was really about the non-power players and hooples. Did Erika mention the board-balancer earlier? He'd been popping up in quite a few scenes, and I half-expected a scuffle between him and Al when he went into the empty Gem. Instead, Al just throws him out and goes back to drinking alone and singing his little song. (an early version of "Streets of Laredo" according to some of my sources). Also, I loved Langrishe telling Farnum that envy was the vilest of the deadly sins when he grabbed Richardson.
Yeah, I thought that was interesting too. Why is Richardson so weird? Do we ever find out? Although it's true...Farnum does use him to feel better about himself.
Ow, sweet. I thought that sounded like an intermrdiate step between St. James Infirmary and Streets of Laredo. I had been told that the latter was a cleaned up version of the former, but I could never see how, really. Al's song struck me as a missing link in that evolution.
Also, Joannie and Charlie Utter discussing the tree and its story was just lovely.
"Streets of Laredo" is a famously filthy song with something like 12,000 verses. Though who knows what iteration it was in during that era.
If you say so. The one I know, a guy is shot and dies. Like I said, cleaned up version.
IM has a nice singing voice. I was pretty impressed. Somehow it was kind of unexpected... I mean, I like how he talks, but that doesn't always mean they can sing. Deadwood spoiler Are Joni and Jane, you know, Joni/Jane? Corwood, while you're here, about The Wire, how do you feel about Teacher!Pres. Of course, he's getting set up for another thankless job but I've been fond of that character for a long time.