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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Home Box Office (HBO)
Salesrank: 2773
Released: June 12, 2007 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
(Rolling Stone) "The Best Drama on Television" is back with the third season on DVD! Timed to coincide with Father's Day, HBO will release Deadwood: The Complete Third Season DVD on June 12, 2007. Watch as the lawless era of Deadwood comes to an end. This DVD is loaded with bonus features including two featurettes, audio commentaries and more.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Featurette
Description of Deadwood - The Complete Third Season:
The final complete season of HBO's remarkable Deadwood series is full of surprises and devastating experiences as the nascent, dangerous town prepares to join Dakota territory in 1877. As in the previous two seasons, the question of who will control the town's resources, assets, and people drives much of the drama, affecting all manner of relationships and alliances, often between the most unlikely people. The dominant storyline in Deadwood: The Complete Third Season concerns upcoming elections for mayor and sheriff of the mucky, gold-mining town. The real juice, however, is not so much between the individuals running for office as between two power brokers each trying to steer the results toward their own purposes. Saloon owner and Deadwood's puppetmaster, Al Swearengen (Ian McShane sustaining his brilliant peformance in the previous two seasons), works closely with incumbent lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) on retaining the latter's seat. But Bullock himself has difficulty surrendering his penchant for taking unambiguous action and relying on few words, especially when he has to act like a politician and deal with people such as George Hearst (Gerald McRaney, playing the real-life father of William Randolph Hearst). Swearengen's rival, Hearst--a self-made industrialist who gained his fortune through mining--has every intention of overtaking Deadwood, with his eye particularly on the lucrative mine owned by Bullock's former lover, Alma (Molly Parker). (The violence Hearst employs to get to Alma's claim will stun many Deadwood fans.)
Meanwhile, Bullock's old friend, Sol Starr (John Hawkes), runs for mayor against the feckless E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson), and tries to navigate through his difficult relationship with Trixie (Paula Malcomson) as she grows enraged by former lover Swearengen's manipulation of her and everyone else. Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) is encouraged to become a public speaker, telling of her misadventures with General George Custer, and she commences a lesbian relationship with Joanie (Kim Dickens), the saloon owner who is becoming increasingly despondent and suicidal. Bullock's relationship with his wife, Martha (Anna Gunn) continues to deepen and become more of an influence on him, Wyatt Earp comes for a visit, and a newcomer to town, Jack Langrishe (Brian Cox), an old friend of Swearengen, attempts to open a theatre. As expected, the season finale concludes with the long-awaited election, but HBO's decision to bring Deadwood to an end required creator David Milch to wrap everything up in a pair of two-hour movies. Still, The Complete Third Season is very satisfying on every level, and will always be, along with the rest of the series, a television landmark. --Tom Keogh
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Deadwood - The Complete Third Season Reviews:
A Must-Have for Your Cowboy Movie Collection 
2009-11-10 - If you love Westerns this is a must-have for your movie collection. Westerns of the past few years have made great efforts at becoming more historically accurate. This is especially important to those of us who are CAS or SASS fans. We want movies to not only have historic characters and settings, but authentic firearms, dress, and language. Deadwood delivers. It is a cowboy re-enactors dream come true. If the Old west is your passion you need to own all three seasons. You can watch them over and over again and get more out of them each time you watch. The only down-side to Deadwood is that there was not a season 4. The story leaves you hanging at the end and wanting more.
Vulgar and loads of swearing 
2009-10-27 - very disappointing, vulgar and swearing. I watched about 15 mins. and couldn't bear it. Not for me !
Deadwood season three
2009-09-17 - This is a great HBO drama series. Language is not suitable for the young or easily offended. The story and characters are great and have inspired the wife and myself to purchase books about deadwood and the characters in the series. We may even visit modern day deadwood one day. If you can handle nasty language (as bad or worse than sopranos) this series will be a welcome adition to your video library.
Deadwood-Third Season 
2009-08-12 - I purchased the DVD set for my son for Christmas and I have not viewed it, but it arrived in excellent condition and promptly. My only disappointment was that there is not a Season Four!
The third season is both wonderful and maddening
2009-05-25 - I bought all three seasons of Deadwood in order after viewing the season I just bought. I think the third is the most interesting, but that is not to shortchange the previous two. It's just that by the third there are so many connections between characters and backstory between everyone that everything is now so rich and complex. Hearst, the heavy of the season, is live and in living color and adds even more conflict between our characters. The dialogue is as profane and loquacious as ever and Al Swearengen continues to be one of the best characters in TV history. What I dislike is the cliffhanger and non-closure due the series ending. But if you liked the previous seasons, do not hesitate to purchase the third.
