Is Deadwood worth renting

Over at TWOP someone posted that the DVD will be released May 23.

I couldn’t let this rest until I located that “blog” thing.

The parent site at The Number of Fucks In Deadwood is one funny place.

I saw some eBay listings of season two that claimed not to be bootlegs-e.g. boxed sets. :confused:

UK/Region 2 version, maybe?

Amazon UK has it, but it’s not listed at Amazon US yet.

Some appear to be from Asia and Australia.

“Get fuckin’!”
(Just quoting Al–not directing a comment at you, Dio.)

Wow!! I had no idea. Thanks for the input. I will check it out.

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.”

Here 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.