“Tell your God to ready for blood”
Just finished watching last night’s Deadwood. It was great, as usual. It also had a scene that might have been one of the more violent things ever taken in by my eyes. There’s gore, and then there’s violence. Its curious how rarely the two of those things actually meet in cinema. This was different. This was the culmination of four weeks worth of buildup by the principal characters leading to an extended sequence in which they fought, hand to hand, to the death. It was intense, but not just for me, the winner of the fight left more traumatized than any viewer could have. It was a scene of grizzly, real, violence without a clean resolution. It was great television.
July 10th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
I snapped at Kelly because she kept trying to talk to me during that scene.
I’m really going to miss this show.