Episode 2! And, ooh, it's the very next day. I do enjoy my serial dramas.

Al Swearengen is...a very bad man.

He's a complicated man

no one understands him but his...hookers?

Ok, that worked better for Shaft. My bad. But it's still true.

Al Swearengen is...a very bad man.

You don't know the half of it. But erika's right too. Pretty amazing, that. One of the most compelling major characters I've ever seen in a serialized TV drama.

'Course, there are very few uncomplicated people in Deadwood, Hoopleheads aside.

Steve The Drunk wasn't too complicated. Just conflicted, that's all.

Steve The Drunk wasn't too complicated. Just conflicted, that's all.

Heh, I almost made an exception for him. Although he did have a complicated relationship with that horse.

Aw, Deadwood talk. I may need to drag out my DVDs...

I'm having nasty mold allergies today, so this may not be the clearest thing I've ever written, but here's my 16-pt plan to fix the media story in S5 of The Wire. Please let me know what you think.

Aw, Deadwood talk. I may need to drag out my DVDs...

Never a bad thing to do.

Well, unless you got Bible Study or something.
Deadwood would not go over then.

Corwood, much as I liked Clark Johnson, enterprising Editor(and I do...Clark Johnson has got to be one of top Twenty Likeable Actors working these days)one thing you are absolutely right about is that Alma should be more connected to the story. And she would be relatively easy for a jerk like Templeton to...beguile, because, unlikeable as he is(to us, anyway) it's not like his whole career is bullshit. He could totally keep her intrigued with war stories, especially since, as a recent grad, she probably gets high off the smell of newsprint.

And of course Bushy Top got that Idea from some movie or lurid book...the culture is absolutely marinated in serial slayings at this moment.

As for the slimy part...I'll leave you to find out.

I think I'm reconsidering. I called him slimy since he's Al's right-hand man, doing his dirty work, but he seems kind of conflicted about it. He's like a big murderous teddy bear. He'll kill who needs killing, but he won't like it!

And speaking of killing...that was the guy from Psych ! Oh well, he was kind of a douche. See, this is why I'm staying away from IMDb. I don't want to know how many episodes a character will be in since they'll likely leave the show by dying. I knew Molly Parker was a main character, but I didn't know whether he was. Now I wonder what'll happen to her.

I never thought I'd see Wild Bill Hickock as a washed-up celebrity.

I'm uneasy about Al's continuing suspicion that Bullock and Hickock are in cahoots, but I really can't blame him. It was a "turn of events" that brought them together, but ever since then, they've always been hanging out, so what is Al to think? With the obvious present connection, he can't rule out a prior connection.

Calamity Jane (I presume that's her?) irritates me. I don't like the way she talks.

And on that subject, there were some Al Swearengen lines that did strike me as particularly...well constructed. I thought the dialogue in the pilot was kind of overprofane, but it's calmed down since then, and now, most of the time, the rhythm of speech seems much more natural. Everyone's always saying the show makes profanity sound like Shakespeare, so I'm trying to listen for that.

SO MUCH DOUBLECROSSING OMG.

I'm enjoying the plotting, the way episode plots are set up in the previous episode and carried over in addition to the new conflict introduced in the next episode. It's reminiscent of Oz but not as seemingly arbitrary.