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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: HBO Home Video
Salesrank: 1815
Released: May 23, 2006 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
1877. A new day is dawning in the Black Hills outlaw camp of Deadwood. For better or worse, times are changing, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. Unsavory new arrivals - looking to cash in on the lucrative anarchy -- and a government of outsiders usher in an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, all learning the hard way...fortune comes with a price.
DVD Features:
3D Animated Menus
Audio Commentary
Documentaries
Featurette
Photo gallery
Description of Deadwood - The Complete Second Season:
Deadwood: The Complete Second Season continues the Shakespearean brilliance of the landmark first season, created by NYPD Blue head writer David Milch. Milch either wrote or supervised the writing of each of the 12 episodes in this stunning follow-up, which contains more than a few surprises for anyone who thought they knew the myriad characters in the late 19th century town of Deadwood--a mucky, ungoverned, exceptionally violent development in South Dakota. As with the first season, Deadwood continues to be about many things--survival, loyalty, alliances, duty--but all of them are happening against a titanic battle between several parties to consolidate power and real wealth in the territory. Despite his cutthroat ethics, astonishing profanity, and bursts of cruelty, it's hard not to side in this bid for a piece of America's future with saloon owner Al Swearengen (a magnificent performance by Ian McShane), a visionary monster who is nevertheless more recognizably human than his rivals.
Entering an uneasy partnership with Al is Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant). Seth begins the second season by teaching Al a few lessons in chivalry, and their brief but bloody feud commences physical ailments for Al that become increasingly shocking to behold. Yet Al's difficulties have the practical effect of sidelining him for a couple of episodes while the story sets up more complex power struggles. Al takes on Deadwood's other saloon-brothel owner, the unstable Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe), as well as an off-screen millionaire who is intent on owning all the gold-mining interests by buying out weary prospectors' claims. Meanwhile, Seth's wife and son (actually, his late brother's widow and child) arrive, an unsettling development for Seth's lover, the widow Alma Garret (Molly Parker), who soon reveals herself to be a more complicated person than in the first season. The prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson) begins thinking about her future and asserts independence from Al by having sex with Seth's friend, Sol Star (John Hawkes). Best of all, Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) is back and more endearingly uncivilized than ever. Special features include actor commentaries on select episodes, the best of which finds Olyphant and McShane cracking each other up while watching the season premiere. --Tom Keogh
Deadwood - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
I absolutely LOVE this series 
2009-10-17 - I fell in love with Deadwood when my husband borrowed season 1 from a friend. I normally don't enjoy anything that could be classified as a western, but immediately was drawn in by the characters and the plot twists of this show.
I ordered season 2 and was just as engrossed as I had been by season 1. I have been recommending this series to everyone who will listen. I am looking forward to watching the next season also.
Amazing
2009-09-14 - The best show that I have seen in years.. I just wish that HBO didn't cancel the show out of the blue. A must have for people that love westerns and that can handle bad language. I am addicted!
Great Series!!
2009-08-22 - I have all three seasons of "Deadwood" and love it. This is a very well written and acted series. I wish HBO would have finished the series. It was left hanging at the end of the third season. Still, well worth watching.
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2009-07-11 - I bought this as a gift for Deadwood junkie friend of mine. Rave reviews from her. Thanks.
WARNING: Region 2 & 4 fans of HBO's "Deadwood" and "Oz".
2009-05-22 - WARNING:
Consumers from outside of North America considering whether they will buy the Region 1 versions or the Region 2 & 4 versions of HBO's "Deadwood" and "Oz" may be interested to know that the Region 2 & 4 versions of these series do not contain audio commentaries.
If audio commentaries are an important feature for any fans of the series then I recommend purchasing the Region 1 versions. I do not know if any other HBO TV series have suffered the same fate as these ones outside of Region 1. My only question is why? Why rip off consumers from other countries? It's not like audio commentaries take up a lot of disc space. Shame on HBO.
Bottom line:
As I enjoy audio commentaries I will buy the Region 1 versions of "Deadwood" and "Oz" as I refuse to be cheated out of my money.
P.S. I'm not sure if the new Region 2 & 4 21 Disc "Oz The Emerald City Collection" suffers the same fate as the earlier releases.
