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Deadwood
David Birch-Jones
06/01/2005
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Produced by: Red Board Productions
Network: HBO
Scheduled: Sunday, 9:00 p.m.
Reviewed on: Dish Network-HD satellite
Channel: 9420
 Not your typical “horse opera”-style western, Deadwood is chock-full of unsavory
yet interesting characters that you can’t turn away from. It’s equally salty in
the dialogue department. Show creator, executive producer, and head writer David
Milch leads his scriptwriting colleagues into the history books with what must
be the most prodigious use of the F-word in any pay television production, ever.
In fact, a fan website that purports to track the cumulative and per-episode
curse word counts reports that midway through the second season (HBO has
re-upped Deadwood for a third season), the f-word usage is already in the 1,600
range since the show’s debut episode. Holy, umm, well you know.
HBO promotes
these types of shows as films, and the production quality of Deadwood is typical
of the cable and satellite network, which means it’s excellent. Filmed with
Panavision cameras on Kodak film stock, the picture quality is as good as
anything you’ll see in high def, and the post-production sound, mixed at Sony
Pictures’ Culver City soundstages, matches the quality of
made-for-the-really-big-screen productions, with crystal-clear dialogue so you
can savor every one of those, umm, words
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