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Deadwood - The Complete First Season
Directors: Michael Almereyda, Timothy Van Patten
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price (not our price): $99.98
Release Date: 2005-02-08
Theatrical Release Date: 2004-03-21
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Run Time: 720 minutes
Format: Array
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Discs: 6


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
(HBO Dramatic Series) 1876. In the Black Hills of South Dakota lies Deadwood, a lawless town inhabited by a mob of restless misfits ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. The richest gold strike in American history provides the backdrop for HBO's next great drama. Format: DVD MOVIE

2) Amazon.com
The remarkable first season of Deadwood represents one of those periodic, wholesale reinventions of the Western that is as different from, say, Lonesome Dove as that miniseries is from Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo or the latter is from Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur. In many ways, HBO's Deadwood embraces the Western's unambiguous morality during the cinema's silent era through the 1930s while also blazing trails through a post-NYPD Blue, post-The West Wing television age exalting dense and customized dialogue. On top of that, Deadwood has managed an original look and texture for a familiar genre: gritty, chaotic, and surging with both dark and hopeful energy. Yet the show's creator, erstwhile NYPD Blue head writer David Milch, never ridicules or condescends to his more grasping, futile characters or overstates the virtues of his heroic ones. Set in an ungoverned stretch of South Dakota soon after the 1876 Custer massacre, Deadwood concerns a lawless, evolving town attracting fortune-seekers, drifters, tyrants, and burned-out adventurers searching for a card game and a place to die. Others, particularly women trapped in prostitution, sundry do-gooders, and hangers-on have nowhere else to go. Into this pool of aspiration and nightmare arrive former Montana lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) and his friend Sol Starr (John Hawkes), determined to open a lucrative hardware business. Over time, their paths cross with a weary but still formidable Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) and his doting companion, the coarse angel Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert); an aristocratic, drug-addicted widow (Molly Parker) trying to salvage a gold mining claim; and a despondent hooker (Paula Malcomson) who cares, briefly, for an orphaned girl. Casting a giant shadow over all is a blood-soaked king, Gem Saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), possibly the best, most complex, and mesmerizing villain seen on TV in years. Over 12 episodes, each of these characters, and many others, will forge alliances and feuds, cope with disasters (such as smallpox), and move--almost invisibly but inexorably--toward some semblance of order and common cause. Making it all worthwhile is Milch's masterful dialogue--often profane, sometimes courtly and civilized, never perfunctory--and the brilliant acting of the aforementioned performers plus Brad Dourif, Leon Rippy, Powers Boothe, and Kim Dickens. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) As good as it gets...   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
...for a TV series. After having seen many of the other HBO productions one can defenately spot out certain elements that recurr in their series, whether it be Sopranos, OZ, The Wire etc. Nevertheless even if one was to cut out the foul language, nudity and violence one would still end up with one hell of a TV show. One that no major network like NBC, ABC, WB or CBS would be able to pull off....or at least haven't to this day.

2) deadwood   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I own the 1st and 2nd season, and will soon add the 3rd season.I love any decent western movies, especially from hbo.

3) Deadwood season 1   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I got this for my husband as a gift. He loves the show but the language is horrible. Every few words is a cuss word. However, he loves the show enough that I'm getting the next 2 seasons for him.

4) Very Boring   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
I received all three Deadwood seasons for Christmas, and after watching the first season I am hoping the next two are a lot better.The makers did an excellent job of recreating the time period in which Deadwood takes place. The costumes are excellent and you actually feel like you are there.The bad language was a little much and was used excessively, I could have done without it.This season was very slow and boring. And the only character I enjoyed was killed (Wild Bill).

5) One of the Best Series...   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I highly recommend Deadwood (all seasons), it's one of the best series ever made. I was sorry to see it go. Warning: watch after the kids have gone to bed!