A Web site has counted “The Number of Fucks In Deadwood”: “HBO’s series Deadwood had a reputation for salty dialogue even before the first episode aired. It was nearly impossible, they said, to keep count of the number of f-words spoken during each program. We took it as a challenge” [Photo: Al Swearengen played by Ian McShane]:
Appropriately enough, Deadwood won a George Foster Peabody Award to recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service in the media and television. “This HBO series twists the conventions of the Western into an excruciating knot of history and imagined events. The Deadwood mining camp is peopled with the profane and violent men — and women — who occupy the fragile frontier between civilization and savagery.” [Photo: Joanie Stubbs, madame of the Chez Ami, played by Kim Dickens]
Sarah Paulson, who plays the conniving governess Miss Isringhausen — and can drink and swear with the best of ’em — stars as Laura Wingfield in the current Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, headlining Jessica Lange and also starring Christian Slater and Josh Lucas. At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Tolliver enlists Lee to clean up Wolcott’s mess. Stubbs confides in Utter, who overreacts when Wolcott “steps on his toe.” Swearengen meets Alma [PHOTO] to inform her of a Pinkerton agent in camp; she and Bullock confer about her bank — and other expanding prospects. Tolliver’s try at damage control backfires when he asks Swearengen to convene a Camp Fathers’ meeting, while the Mayor is chagrined to be excluded. Wolcott summons Utter to barter Hickok’s last letter in exchange for information about Stubb.
Great lines from last week’s episode:
Sol: “If you keep this up we’re going to fight, and you’ll have to work by yourself while I convalesce.”
Doc Cochran to Swearengen: “You, Al, are an object lesson in the healing powers of obstinacy and hostile disposition.”
Al: “You looked out for yourself against the chance I would die.”
Farnum [PHOTO]: “I never wished for that outcome. But I am a born follower.”
Commissioner Jarry: “And you, Mr. Wolcott, I find you the severest disappointment of all.”
Wolcott: “Often to myself as well.”
