Submitted by DirectionNew5328 t3_12474nb in television
Childish Things. Tom’s bicycle ride across the thoroughfare. It’s a sweet, happy moment in a hard place, and all the killers, vice merchants, miners and whores seem to appreciate the respite.
It’s a lovely moment in a highly visceral series. Deadwood is the best screenwriting I’ve ever appreciated, and it is shot beautifully, too. The acting is superlative.
The way the writing veers between shakespearean and potty mouth is a thing of absolute cocksucking beauty.
A quote I like: When I say, 'Go fuck yourself, Sheriff,' will you put that down to drunkenness or a high estimate of your athleticism?"
Shakespeare was pretty filthy back in the day. Not as bad as Chaucer though.
Yeah, Chaucer would have thought the writers of Deadwood were a ryghte bunch O quyntes.
I always thought it was sweet Tom felt the need to qualify choice, leaving the sordid sexual violence many of them, male and female, had probably experienced, alone.
The best line in the show is;
"He's picklin' his prick in the cunt brine of another."
Personal fav…
“I’ll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.”
Ellsworth
That line leave my lips at least once every time I have a few drinks. Pure, profane poetry.
The few truly happy moments in that show are all beautiful.
At the end of season 1, when Doc and Jewell are dancing to Green Grow the Lilacs… just gorgeous.
cocksucker
Correction: San Francisco Cocksucker
Hard to think of another series that played its instrument at such a high and consistent level. A unique achievement.
And the allusion. The meter… just a triumph.
I just finished this episode 5 minutes ago by chance and I love the scene at the end where the doc finds the dead Chinese girl in a cage and yells at Woollcott. Great episode.
This series was a real gem.
It is sad that it ended so early.
I only watched Deadwood for the first time a couple months ago.
I usually binge stuff, but it was so good I forced myself to alternate with other shows so that it wouldn't be over too fast.
“Go on, my son!”
Well I guess it's time for a Deadwood re-watch, then I know I'll have to keep my Timothy Olyphant man crush rolling so I'll have to watch some Justified as well.
stumpcity t1_jdy3p56 wrote
My favorite line from that whole show is in that episode:
"My bicycle masters boardwalk and quagmire with aplomb! Those that doubt me? Suck cock by choice"
It's not the BEST line in the show, but the combination of frills+filth is so pitch perfect, to me, that it's the one I love the most.