Smoochill

3y

SPOILERS.
Just finished third season, gonna watch the movie this week. Here they are my thoughts.

Was really excited to continue, I was optimistic that the following seasons could have been more engaging, with a stronger writing, building on unpredictable climaxes like a western version of Game of Thrones/Boardwalk Empire in their respective prime. How wrong my expectations were.
After some episodes the defects appear. I feel most of the characters are on the background and don't contribute enough, missing a real impact in the series.
Charlie Utter didn't have anything to say, ironic how the actor chose to interpret a plain character both here and in SOA. Martha Bullock successfully beat him in being bland and insipid.
Jane is pointless, zero evolution and just redundant complaining. Wu got a lot of room to grow, even expand on the contrast between american and chinese culture but they really reduced him to talk in a rudimentary way with Al. I thought EB was gonna play the Littlefinger and become terrifically dangerous towards the end but he was just there mocking Richardson and being submissive to the men upstairs.
As final antagonist I expected even more from Earst, but, again, he was missing charisma, foxiness and simply the magic to be a juicy threat for the city. Writers could have been bolder by making him not falling into Al's trick but I guess he was too old to recognise the dead prostitute t\*\*\* were smaller. I was suprised a man with such a honor like Bullock accepted without blinking the murder of an innocent woman but I guess a w\*\*\*\* life wasn't that valuable one hundred years ago.
Bullock, Tolliver, Cochran got way more attention from me: their various relationships, how they dealt with problems, their humour, their mistakes...
And Al? Wish they made him more emphatic with the priest by allowing him in his bar since he reminded him of his brother during first season. He got the same ranting, raging emotion and it became monotonous after a while. Love the one-liners he spit tho. That b****** got some of the best intimidation skills in a TV series.
Show definitely got an excessive amount of soap-opera moments that make it heavy, few moments of actions plus the politics involved are mostly bureaucracy. Narration could have been more streamlined in like 8-10 episodes per season.
It didn't deserve to be cancelled but now I understand why it was.
The series is the equivalent of a video-game with too many side quests. I'm heavily disappointed.

Bad Finger Boogie

3y

Deadwood is comfortably my second favourite show of all time, just behind The Wire.

That being said, it's a different type of show than what I think some of you guys were looking for - it's absolutely nothing like Game of Thrones, which is a show I found to be absolute garbo from the start.

That's just me, though - it's great that there's stuff out there that moves at different speeds and speaks to different types of people. Live and let live, baby - if people have other shows they love as much as I love Deadwood, then I'm happy.

Smoochill

3y

Why do you like it?

SKYKILLA

9mo

In

I attempted to start this like 2 times in the past and just couldn’t stay interested. I was too distracted with other things. This 3rd try its finally hitting. What a show.

On S1 E9 now.