Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/12/2007 Run time: 720 minutes

Got it quick. Love the series. don't want to pay the extra $ to hear Milch drone on, he's not as Shakespearean as Farnum is he?, so this is what i got. good seller.

So, I must confess. I am a "Deadwood" junkie. I have purchased the complete series and look forward each evening to spending time with these bigger then life characters based on the gritty mining camp of Deadwood(Don't call or come over between 10 and 11 PM, I will not answer the phone or door!).I even love sitting through the opening title sequence each and every time.

Legendary characters Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane mix in with the fictional characters who are some pretty gritty and most often lecherous people, who speak like they were brought up on the King's English, but may also set a new record for the most swear words in any program. There is also quite a bit of sex, nudity and violence. And although all of that only add to the "ambiance" of the setting, it is certainly not one for the kiddies or anyone who cringes at 4 letter(and longer) words.

Here is a little about the opening of the series, from there I was completely hooked.
Episode 1: "Deadwood"
"No law at all in Deadwood...is that true?"
This of course, is the episode that will introduce you and hook you on all the fun and the characters that grow throughout the series and grow on you.It will be hard to chose a favorite. They are all shall we say "charismatic" in their own special way...
Ex Montana Marshall, has rolled into town with business partner Sol Star. They open a hardware business for the miners of the camp. It isn't long before Bullock meets up with the legendary Wild Bill Hickok, and also is at odds with the owner of the "Gem" saloon, the formidable Al "pardon my French" Swearengen. Swearengen seems to be the Godfather of the the camp. He has his finger in every pie, and nobody seems to make a move without his approval. Al may at first rub you the wrong way with his crude style, but I have to say, that he has become my absolute favorite of the series. This episode has commentary with writer/creator David Milch as an option.

The muddy midway of Deadwood comes alive in this very real series. The cast of the series is marvelous. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, William Sanderson, Powers Boothe, and Keith Carradine(Wild Bill), will all draw you in immediately.The music is so good I bought the Season 1 soundtrack that mixes short quotes from the series(also explicit) with some western style music and some great blues. Each episode runs about 50 minutes.

My 5 stars rating is for the entire series, each and every episode. By the way the clarity of the picture is excellent and the sounds of the Old West will come alive in your living room.

I bought each season individually as soon as they came out, but if you haven't got around to buying them yet, or if you know someone who would kill or die for this series for Christmas, check around for best deals. The deal is a good one at this time(I paid much more buying them separately,but now prices have dropped). Prices do change though so check each season separately as well when you are ready to order(take shipping, if any into consideration). You can also find the complete series rereleased for pre-order(at this time) here:Deadwood: The Complete Series.You can even sometimes find them sold by disc with a couple of episodes on each:Dead Wood: The First Season, Volume One - but this can get quite expensive. If you pruchase from an outside seller, keep in mind that you may have to pay shipping on each individual season, but buying the set, you only pay a single shipping charge once. DVDs have set shipping price no matter how many DVDs are in the order.

Check out this great series..be careful though, it's addicting!
Saddle Up for one heck of a ride and..."A Hell of a Place to Make Your Fortune"......Laurie

Rare in this day and time do you find ANY series than can hold your undivided attention for one season, much less three. The Sopranos,though
great, had almost as many lowlights as highlights, but Deadwood has near perfection in every single chapter. A superb cast of mostly unknown or quality bit players, with two or three notable exceptions, make this exciting period of American frontier history burst to life in vivid, colorful (to say the least) action and language. Times were hard, tough, and your friends were good friends and your enemies were deadly.
Some parts are better than others, depending on personal taste and interest, but in my personal opinion, there is not one single episode that hasn't got a touch of superior acting, great humor, or gut-wrenching action attached to it, most have an abundance of all three.
For some of these actors, this series may be the crowning achievement of their professional lives. There are far worse fates !!!
Though not inexpensive, I personally feel its money well spent !!!

I don't understand how this movie got such great reviews. The writing is just horrible. You will never convince me that this is the way people talked in this time period. Al the Swearing Man who is the central figure in this series speaks in twisted riddles laced with obscenities in each and every sentence. Furthermore, he speaks like a Shakespearean actor from a totally different era of time. I watched an interview on one of the extra DVDs on the first season and that is the same way the stupid director or producer talks today -- completely incomprehensible. This is a very dark gloomy movie throughout the entire series with little to no redeeming value. Now the general historical story line has merit and the stage set is amazingly accurate and well done. But the writing is just so bad it ruins the whole series. I suffered all the way to the end to find out there was no end. The movie just suddenly stops. Completely anticlimactic. What a waste of money and time I will never get back.

I have yet to watch the second and third seasons of Deadwood, but thank God I was able to watch the first. This is an extremely well-written show about the real Wild West. There's a chock full of heavy profanity, sex, obscenities, and very little gunplay. This isn't John Wayne's universe, and this CERTAINLY ISN'T Will Smith's universe, either. David Milch has done a fantastic job with this series.

What I like most about "Deadwood" are the countless characters that make the show. It's very hard to pick a favorite, really. Ian Mcshane and Timothy Olyphany give superb performances as Al Searengen and Seth Bullock (Swearengen being the cold-blooded owner of a saloon, and Bullock being the owner of a hardware store). William Sanderson is brilliant as E.B. Farnum, a hotel owner with a social problem. Brad Dourif's performance is oscar-worthy as Doc Cochran, a man who has seen it all in the Civil War. Cy Tolliver (played by Powers Boothe) is one character that you'll love to hate. Alma Garrett (Molly Parker) is a bit annoying in the first few episodes, but she develops and you'll grow to admire her because of her complexities. A more complex female character is Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert), whose alcoholism and vulgarity makes a stark contrast for her caring for little children and for those who are sick. Other characters are attention-grabbing: Trixie, Sol Star, Charlie Utter, Eddie Sawyer, Ellesworth, Jewel, Mr. Wu, Reverend Smith, Richardson, Tom Nuttall, A.W. Merrick, Dan Doherty, Joanie Stubbs, Con Stapleton, Jimmy Irons, Leon, Jack McCall, etc. And special props go to Keith Carradine for his portrayal of "Wild Bill" Hickok, the legendary lawman who has come not only for prospecting for gold, but for playing Poker (which leads to bad luck in his own case).

So now, all I need is enough money to purchase the next two seasons of "Deadwood". And it's a shame that this show got cancelled, but the reason behind it was understandable: not enough money from the ratings.

A++