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Deadwood - Season 1 Reviews

2004

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Features the complete episodes from the first season of the popular television drama. Set in the weeks immediately following the Custer Massacre, the lives of Wild Bill Hickok, Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen collide, ensuing a bitter power struggle. Read more

Starring	Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Keith Carradine, Robin Weigert
Director	Walter Hill
Genres	Action/Adventure, Television

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- Better written and directed than almost anything coming out of Hollywood...the most ambitious TV Western series ever made...a muddy, bloody epic
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  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:11
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  Deadwood - a must see
  
  Almost too tempting, deadwood, deadgood. Set at the time of the US goldrush just after the massacare at the Little Bighorn, this brings the US to (sometimes ... read more »
  
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  - Richard Taylor
  - UK
  - 10 May 2005 at 10:24
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  Possible the best tv program ever
  
  Epic, amazing, awesome, riveting I run out of adjectives for this series.
  
  A slow burning story set over a very short period of time. Some episodes ... read more »
  
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- - Aspman
  - 50 reviews
  - Scotland
  - 28 Oct 2011 at 15:09
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  Spoilt by bad language
  
  The content and the story were good and probably more realistic than the usual 'Western' films and programs. However, the amount of swearing detracted ... read more »
  
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  - High Wycombe
  - 20 Dec 2010 at 20:59
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  Very enticing
  
  This series is another excellent one ranking closely behind Rome ,Band of brothers and the like. The characters are strong and enigmatic, fufilling their ... read more »
  
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- - mikey1
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  - bournemouth
  - 14 Aug 2010 at 13:26
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  wild west - dirt n' all!
  
  I ordered this as it had had good reviews, unfortunately my boyfriend was reluctant to watch it so I had to wait a couple of weeks before he could be persuaded... read more »
  
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  - Northolt
  - 09 Aug 2010 at 20:44
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  Why do I keep doing this to myself
  
  I keep trying out these american tv series and getting addicted. First it was the wire, now this. Lovejoy (Ian mcshane) is great in this.
  
  I would ... read more »
  
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- - ljordan
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  - Somewhere
  - 16 Jul 2010 at 11:11
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  Deadwood - Season 1
  
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  I am sure that with so many excellent actors in this film it would have been extremely enjoyable....HOWEVER! The quality of the disc was extremely bad and very ... read more »
  
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  - Pulborough
  - 20 May 2010 at 15:32
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  Like nothing else
  
  It took me a couple of episodes to get my head around Deadwood - i was not prepared for this at all. The language is the foulest i have seen on TV and the ... read more »
  
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  - Brigg
  - 28 Feb 2010 at 18:35
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  Deadwood
  
  What a series it is refreshing to see the West as it realy was, as this seies is set in the in Black Hills just after the Battle of the little big horn, it ... read more »
  
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- - 29shotgun
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  - Abertillery
  - 18 Feb 2010 at 11:27
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  In the west
  
  This is a cool series dark and a lot of fun, in parts in can become a little long winded and i think it could use a few more hand fulls of dirt to grim it up a ... read more »
  
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- - jimjam86
  - 4 reviews
  - Hungerford
  - 15 Nov 2009 at 11:28
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  Deadwood
  
  Whilst this series could have been a good Western series, I found it was spoilt by the incessant bad language. I accept that a certain amount of swearing takes ... read more »
  
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  - 10 Oct 2009 at 22:31
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- - 54
  - 11
  Deadwood - a must see
  
  Almost too tempting, deadwood, deadgood. Set at the time of the US goldrush just after the massacare at the Little Bighorn, this brings the US to (sometimes ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 101449
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  - Richard Taylor
  - UK
  - 10 May 2005 at 10:24
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  A must rent
  
  Whilst you probably caught the hype (enormous billboards of Lovejoy with a dodgy looking moustache), you probably didn't catch all the show (it was on quite... read more »
  
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  - London, England
  - 31 Aug 2005 at 10:06
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  should be 10 stars
  
  just watch it. rich or poor, male or female, clever or dim, intellectual or big brother watcher(well perhaps not you) just watch this brilliant masterpiece of ... read more »
  
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- - wallynosocks
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  - Staines
  - 09 Jan 2006 at 18:34
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  Yee Haa...great western drama.
  
  Gritty, realistic western drama from the excellent US TV drama channel HBO behind Oz and many other quality adult drama's. It's quite an entertaining ... read more »
  
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- - STARFURY
  - Norfolk
  - 08 Jun 2005 at 00:34
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  Excellent HBO series
  
  I finally got to see this and am hooked.
  
  This is the West as it probably really was; dirty and lawless.
  
  Set during the gold-rush at a time... read more »
  
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- - IanLowe
  - Greater Manchester
  - 23 Aug 2005 at 19:39
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  Deadwood - Season 1.2.3.4 (2004)
  
  Very enjoyable!
  
  A straight talking gritty look at the early west.
  
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  - Belfast / Nothern Ireland.
  - 08 Aug 2005 at 03:13
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  Deadwood Series One
  
  Dark and claustrophovic, funny, witty, tender and vicious. Blasts of matter of fact violence and Shakespeare like soliloquys. Breaks all the myths of America&#... read more »
  
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- - Alice Nutter
  - England
  - 06 Jan 2006 at 15:04
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  Gritty, doesn't quite cut it!
  
  This series starts as it means to go on, a punchy, richly woven story about the birth of new town called Deadwood. Deadwood starts as a camp for gold ... read more »
  
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- - Matt Burridge
  - Herts
  - 24 Sep 2006 at 17:44
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  the best of the West
  
  Brutal, witty, provoking and, at times, Shakespearean in it's dialogue and intrigue. Ian McShane was ... read more »
  
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- - si81
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  - Lancaster
  - 09 Feb 2007 at 10:44
- - 5
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  Real potential
  
  I've only watched the first disc so far, but the characters are well drawn and, with the exception of Tim Olyphant, superbly acted. Storylines are riveting... read more »
  
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  - northampton
  - 27 Sep 2005 at 10:35

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- Deadwood - Season 1
  
  Features the complete episodes from the first season of the popular television drama. Set in the weeks immediately following the Custer Massacre, the lives of Wild Bill Hickok, Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen collide, ensuing a bitter power struggle....