Word: deadwood
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...DEADWOOD An HBO series shows how the West was really...
...hooves thunder on the horizon, HBO's Deadwood (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts March 21) might seem like the cavalry coming to rescue viewers affronted by Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash. Something innocent! Something wholesome! A nice western...
...high-megaton profanities are centuries old, and accounts of the West "are full of the testimony of people whose sensibilities have been scandalized by the resourcefulness of the human spirit in fitting so many obscenities in the most ordinary declarative sentence." This, he says, was the point: Deadwood, S.D., was outside the bounds of the U.S., the law and propriety--just as Milch is now beyond the long reach of the ABC censors who dogged him on NYPD Blue, the show he created with Steven Bochco. Take a group of criminals and scofflaws, mostly men, risking ruin or murder...
...Deadwood was the epicenter of a gold rush in what is now South Dakota. Just one small problem: the land had previously been "given" to the Indians. "Custer was sent in to strong-arm the Indians, and we all know how that turned out," says Milch. The story begins two weeks after Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn and features fictional characters like a marshal turned merchant played by Timothy Olyphant (Gone in Sixty Seconds) as well as historical figures like "Wild Bill" Hickok (Keith Carradine...
...disbelief at the door. Don't expect chaste, old-fashioned behavior, though; there's already buzz about the skin, violence and language. "I'm just trying to get that world right," says Milch, who helped bring nudity to prime time in NYPD Blue. "When a man was killed in Deadwood, he was fed to the pigs." Even the Sopranos haven't tried that. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen