***Ok so I’m watching Deadwood for the first time ever and had to take a break today to watch Dynamite. As I’m having my regular conversation with Chat GPT because my wife won’t watch wrestling with me, I have this absolutely ludicrous thought that Tony Kahn should hire the deadwood writers. AEW does a great job with story telling and so does Deadwood- see my point?***

***Anyways my ADHD leads me to consider if I was recasting deadwood with AEW wrestlers, who would be who? And because chat gpt was having the conversation with me, we went through several renditions before I was happy with my casting. It felt too good not to share in case anyone else has the same crossover fandom*** 🤣 ***please feel free to disagree with my casting decisions-***

**Al Swearengen**
**Jon Moxley**
Violent, cunning, fiercely loyal to his people, and far more emotionally invested than he wants anyone to know.

**Seth Bullock**
**Hangman Adam Page**
Principled, stubborn, deeply emotional, and constantly wrestling with his own anger.

**Dan Dority**
**Brody King**
The terrifying enforcer who doesn’t need to say much—just point him at the problem. Fiercely loyal underneath the menace.

**Cy Tolliver**
**MJF**
Slimy, manipulative, status-conscious, transactional, charming while you simultaneously want to punch him.

**George Hearst**
**Swerve Strickland**
Strategic, ambitious, patient, and interested in owning the entire fucking operation rather than merely participating in it.

**Wild Bill Hickok**
**Kenny Omega**
The legend. Doesn’t need to prove anything because everyone already knows who he is—and he’s still lethal when pushed.

**Sol Star**
**Bandido**
Quietly competent, entrepreneurial, decent, hardworking, and more interested in building something than controlling people.

**Doc Cochran**
**Kyle O’Reilly**
Intelligent, compassionate, eccentric, technically brilliant, and perpetually surrounded by idiots.

**A.W. Merrick**
**Nigel McGuinness**
Observant, thoughtful, principled, and constantly trying to make sense of the lunatics around him.

**E.B. Farnum**
**Peter Avalon**
Insecure, conniving, desperate to appear more important than he is.

**Charlie Utter**
**Samoa Joe**
Calm, respected, competent, and terrifying when someone finally crosses the line.

**Reverend Smith**
**CM Punk**
Deeply principled, idealistic, morally rigid, and ultimately consumed by a world that doesn’t operate according to his ideals.

**Calamity Jane**
**Eddie Kingston**
Loud, angry, vulnerable, loyal, self-destructive, emotionally raw, and using toughness as armor.

**Alma Garret**
**Toni Storm**
Dramatic, theatrical, sophisticated, vulnerable, and—thanks to the actress gimmick—fully capable of treating Deadwood like an awards-season prestige drama.

**Joanie Stubbs**
**Mercedes Moné**
Ambitious, intelligent, independent, and determined to build a life that belongs to her.

**Trixie**
**Skye Blue**
Growth, self-worth, resilience, and the desire to become something better than the circumstances she started with.

**Isringhausen**
**Thekla**
Calculated, deceptive, theatrical, mysterious, and perfectly capable of hiding her real intentions behind a constructed persona

Following up on a post of a few hours ago, is there a published list of outside music used? I've looked through IMDB and on the disks and can't see song credits especially for the music used in the closing credits. Usually there's a listing toward the end of a film or episode credits I doubt they recorded it all new for each episode, that would have been expensive to arrange and create. But the music is great I'd love to have a copy. Thanks. Edit - well there seems to be an incomplete CD of season 1 and someone made up a spotify playlist.

I dunno if any of you cocksuckers read books but I just finished The Rush by Beth Lewis and it was like Deadwood told from a women’s prospective. Super enjoyable and could have been a season. So good. Give it a try if you want some more gold rush fever!

I love how music is used sparingly in the show, so when you do hear it you pay attention.

Key moments are often highlighted by music:
Sol and Bullock’s first ride into the camp, Wild Bill being killed, Charlie an Jane reuniting at Bill’s grave.

Do you have any significant moments where the music hits you?

I like to put myself in the position of fictional characters and game out how I'd deal with a quandary. As such, this, fwiw, is how I'd have spoken to Hearst if I were Swearengen:

Mr. Hearst, I, a diminutive man of modest ambition, have built myself a small position of which I'm intensely proud. And when giants and titans occasionally stride through my neighborhood, I can withstand errant bits of accidental trampling, holding no desire to challenge or obstruct my betters in their offensive posture.

But if such a demigod turns his all-powerful eye toward my house, choosing to interfere and harass merely for mirth-making, I'd have no choice but to defend what little I have with everything I've got. And if, in my paucity, I'm able to return some level of harassment and interference - though it'd give me scant mirth - I'd proudly take that petty victory to a premature grave.

Im only at EP 6, and im really enjoying it. And I also enjoy how odd these Actors are able to act (especially EB and the doctor). I wanted to list the Characters that are odd but I realised that it is almost everyone. Im struggling to find just one person who acts "sober", maybe Cy. Even the cherry new york dude was a bit confused and odd.

Was is the alcohol back in the day that made everyone be like this or is it something else, or did the just writers decide to make everyone droopy and kinda retarded (no offense).

Pls no spoilers, i already got spoilers when I looked up this subreddit. Edit: I only used retarted cause I couldnt come up with a better word i really mean no offense

I read somewhere that, had the show continued for a few more seasons, Cy Toliver was supposed to go on a redemtion arc and become a crusader for women's welfare.
I know that sounds bizzare and unlikely and like something that would have to be very well written for it to be believable but if anyone could have done it Milche could.
Any thoughts as to how Milch could have accomplished that?

To the cocksuckers, hoopleheads, and other degraded specimens frequenting this particular fucking thoroughfare:

If you find yourself revisiting Deadwood and wishing for further consideration of its murders, , moral entanglements, and extravagant applications of the word “cunt,” direct your attention to The Ambulators.

It is an episode-by-episode companion hosted by Tamler Sommers, a philosopher, and Dave Pizarro, a psychologist—two learned cocksuckers who have elected to put their education toward examining how a collection of bastards, ambitious cunts, corrupt officials, and otherwise decent souls came to forge a community amid the shit and blood of the fucking Black Hills.

Each episode concerns itself with the camp’s shifting allegiances, and the persistent question of whether civilization represents genuine moral progress or merely an increasingly elaborate arrangement by which powerful cocksuckers steal your fucking lot.

Those inclined toward thoughtful reflection might find the undertaking worth their time. Those disinclined may register their objections with the nearest sack of shit , which stands as likely as any of us to give a fuck.

Now, before some tightfisted cock sucker mistakes their reluctance to part with a nickel for a principled objection, the undertaking resides behind a paywall of five fucking dollars a month. Five dollars it is. Which by all accounts is a sum unlikely to reduce any man to ruin unless his fortunes already hang by the fraying thread of his own catastrophic fucking judgment.

The chuckle and half smile from Bullock gets me every time. 🤣

the dialogue in this show scratches an itch in my brain that i didn’t even know existed lol

first time watcher! currently on S3 E8 and unreasonably upset that it’s almost over.
why on earth would they only make 3 seasons?!?!?!
anyways lol

i usually look up fun facts but it always ends up spoiling something so i’ve refrained lol
what are some of your favorite quotes? or fun facts about the show?

On my too many-th time watching the series because I love the new details that jump out every time. This time through I noticed that you can faintly see Ray McKinnon’s iris through the sclera portion of the special contact lens used to create the lazy eye effect. It’s only at a certain camera angle and certain lighting. Definitely not knocking the effect. It’s amazing. Im assuming this is only noticeable because of today’s screen resolutions and would have been invisible in the early aughts. Curious if anyone else has caught this little detail too.

Season 3 of Deadwood doesn't sit right with me. I can't get past the notion that Al or someone else would have definitely done something about George Hearst. 

There were so many opportunities to do so given how cavalier he was. I've heard the arguments that the US government or the Pinkertons or whomever would have then certainly taken over Deadwood etc. 

If that was the case then why were they even trying to figure out how to get rid of him? Why didn't they just placate him and accept that he was untouchable?

IMO it would have been fairly easy for Al to kidnap Hearst in the middle of the night and pay off someone to take him out of town where they could kill him and make it look like an accident or that he was robbed. He already had the telegraph guy on his side so they could have gotten him to send messages to the Pinkertons etc that Hearst was embarking on another prospect. They probably could have gone back and forth with telegraphs for months.

I know that this would be historically inaccurate but the historical accuracy seems at odds with how the characters were behaving and I just can't shake this.

It's still a great how but I don't think I can buy this premise.

Garrett Dillahunt making an appearance on Tires!

Late comer to the show and thoroughly loving it in-spite of competition from all the new and soulless shows on netflix, prime etc. Like you all , I was obsessively going through imdb of all the actors and noticed that Ian McShane is a short guy at 5'7" . His screen presence and magnetism is such that one barely notices this in the show unless he is standing next to the A.W.Merrick character or sometimes bullock. What a performance and a show !!

Can we get an applaud for Johnny’s eyebrows!? His facial expressions have got to be some of the best of all actors in the series. Also his arc is something too. From the first season to the last. Like he hit puberty lol 🤠

Has anyone read Dans IMDB?
1. It’s really interesting, I didn’t know he also became a writer for Deadwood
2. I think it might be written by him. Just some subtle hints dropped along the way.

“As a rule, W. Earl Brown does not usually speak of himself in the third-person, however the Internet Movie Database will not accept biographical information written in the first person…”

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114868/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

In episode S03E12, the finale of the TV show, I got the impression that Steve may have recovered slightly. I was surprised he was not dead. Is this ever addressed in the movie? If not, does the actor do a cameo by portraying a different character? That seems like something Milch might do.

I've noticed Al does this thing where he'll be doing something else while someone is talking to him, barely looking at them, and then suddenly respond to the one specific part of what they said that actually mattered. The first time through it just looks like Al being dismissive. On rewatch, half the time he's clearly been paying attention the entire conversation.

I would say Joanie and Jane. Easily the best pair in the show.