Yes! I was pretty sick of Trixie by that time, so it would have been fine with me if they’d given Trixie to Hearst and let the other whore live.
I haven’t rewatched Deadwood for several years. Last time I tried, it seemed overblown, the dialogue and story lines unnecessarily complicated. I think the best thing to come out of the series was Garrett Dillahunt.
What’s Milch doing these days? Last I heard, he was working on a cop show set in the 70’s.
One reason for the final season complications (including the whole time consuming and needless plot about the acting company) was that Milch thought they were going to have a fourth season and didn’t learn they weren’t til they had shot the first few Season 3 episodes, so he had to wrap it up. The actors had a plot arc that they weren’t able to resolve well, and the lead actor from the troupe (played by Brian Cox) got merged with a con-man/snake oil salesman/homeopath called Dr. Avery Levingston who was to be portrayed by Zeljko Ivanek and who was to be revealed to be William Avery Rockefeller, father of John D. (who in fact really was a con-man who was in Deadwood for a while- he abandoned his kids when they were little and once J.D. was rich he basically let it be known not to come around for a handout). There was also talk of movie sequels but those are apparently kaput.
A similar thing happened with HBO’s ROME with the “learned too late this was the final season” wrap-ups. That’s why the second season got hopelessly muddled and rushed as more than a decade of history was crammed into a few episodes.
The murder at the show’s conclusion almost ruined the show for me.
I only own seasons 1 & 2, now I understand why I don’t like season 3.
Al was the government of Deadwood. Because there was no formal law the law became an emergent phenomenon. A theme of the show is if the kind of government personified by Al is better or worse than the government and laws of the official government. It resembles the Godfather in this, but it is much more explicit about it.
Yeah, it’s a shame they made Trixie so singularly abrasive in the third season. She had been a more nuanced character in the first two-thirds of the series.