The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.
by R JOHNSON · Cited by 5 — Deadwood, through its narrative arc, its seriality, its cinematic structure, works to draw us to its characters, encouraging us to see the harms and damages ...
In Deadwood, language is a product of the environment that also creates, alters, and expands the same environment in real time. That Milch worked so hard to get that right elevates Deadwood from a great show to an artistic achievement. What I love about Deadwood is that through these creative methods, the characters are fully-formed from the ...
