# Is Deadwood worth renting **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008 "2006-02-25T01:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/21 "2006-02-25T19:34:45Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > I can’t wait till the second season comes out on DVD: that’s the only way I can watch it. Over at TWOP someone posted that the DVD will be released May 23. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/22 "2006-02-25T19:39:19Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > But you better have your cussing ears on. Somebody even had a joke blog (I think it was) that was a count of “fuck” on _Deadwood_ by episode. It beat out _The Sopranos_ handily, and that takes some doing! I couldn’t let this rest until I located that “blog” thing. The parent site at [The Number of Fucks In Deadwood](http://www.thewvsr.com/deadwood.htm) is one funny place. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/23 "2006-02-25T19:40:43Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Over at TWOP someone posted that the DVD will be released May 23. I saw some eBay listings of season two that claimed not to be bootlegs-e.g. boxed sets. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/24 "2006-02-25T20:13:02Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > I saw some eBay listings of season two that claimed not to be bootlegs-e.g. boxed sets. 😕 UK/Region 2 version, maybe? Amazon UK has it, but it’s not listed at Amazon US yet. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/25 "2006-02-25T20:20:51Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > I saw some eBay listings of season two that claimed not to be bootlegs-e.g. boxed sets. 😕 Some appear to be from Asia and Australia. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/26 "2006-02-25T22:15:55Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Al Swearengin is arguably the best character currently on television. “Get fuckin’!” (Just quoting Al–not directing a comment at you, **Dio**.) ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/27 "2006-02-26T02:16:59Z")
Wow!! I had no idea. Thanks for the input. I will check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/28 "2006-02-26T13:04:08Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Fair enough. That kinda irked me, given everything else that they try to make accurate, that they hadn’t bothered fixing up the slang. I suspect (but can’t affirm) that in a _Fresh Air_ interview not too long after the show started (or maybe even before it had) Milch made some apologies for the “current day” slang making it into the series to replace terms that were far too passe’ to have any impact. As I recall, the terms relating to sex were far less foul in those days than blasphemy and derision of the Deity. I seem to recall a thread where this issue was batted about a bit, and I remember saying at the time that in early Broadway dramas it was far more shocking to hear “Goddamn” than almost any other word(s). Of course, this was before the fabulous f-word and s-word and c-word made it into the theater. Even if street talk included those “more offensive” words they weren’t deemed proper enough even for the stage. And, of course, the broadcast media (there was no cable until much later) had the FCC keeping even innuendo at a low. In short, in order to be effective to modern ears, the slang of the day (our day) has to be used instead of the slang of the period. Plus, there’s a reasonable chance that the real “slang of the day” never made it to print, either in official documents or newspapers, or in letters to family and friends. Authenticity, in this particular case, is sacrificed for “dramatic effect.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008/29 "2006-02-26T13:38:34Z")
[Here](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4531413) is the 11 minute interview with David Milch on _Fresh Air_ recorded on March 11, 2005. It must have been some other place that I got all those details about why slang-of-today repleces slang-of-the-period. Milch alludes to a similar idea without expressing it as convincingly as I recalled. Good interview anyway for _Deadwood_ fans. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-deadwood-worth-renting/346008.md?page=1)