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Season Three, Episode Twelve: “Tell Him Something Pretty” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. The last scene in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises has the emasculated and wounded Jake lamenting with his long-time love Brett. She muses, “We could have had a damn good time together.”…

Season Three, Episode Eleven: “The Catbird Seat” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. In the years before Game of Thrones, it wasn’t a common practice for television to off any major characters. Star Trek even was famous for only using characters introduced that very episode to…

Season Three, Episode Ten: “A Constant Throb” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. “A Constant Throb” is Deadwood at its best: well written, well paced, well filmed. Not a moment is wasted in this episode, and the fact that W. Earl Brown, who plays right-hand-man…

Season Three, Episode Nine: “Amateur Night” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. The line between amateurs and professionals are blurred in the episode titled “Amateur Night,” a wonderful entry in Deadwood where George Hearst’s hired, professional troublemakers (and likely-to-come killers) turn out to be Pinkertons. And what…

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Season Three, Episode Seven: “Unauthorized Cinnamon” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. The fact that the seventh installment of season three is named “Unauthorized Cinnamon” after a quote from Dan warning Jewel not to put out cinnamon with the usual-for-meetings peaches colors a great episode…

Season Three, Episode Six: “A Rich Find” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. The sheer dismissiveness that Charlie Utter utilizes to disarm and anger George Hearst, a man so accustomed to the world bowing to him since he became a rich man, is a joy…

Season Three, Episode Five: “A Two-Headed Beast” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. As the title of “A Two-Headed Beast” implies, Deadwood‘s fifth episode of its final season creates and examines pairings, some of which are unnatural, violent, and deadly. It also calls to mind…

Season Three, Episode Four: “Full Faith and Credit” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. “Full Faith and Credit” is one of the few Deadwood episodes with odd and sometimes annoying plot threads with various characters making an attempt to establish trust with one another, even…

Season Three, Episode Three: “True Colors” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. “True Colors” is one of the more complex episodes of Deadwood, especially when it comes to Alma Ellsworth, who is the focus of many different discussions as she’s recovered from her procedure nine…

Season Three, Episode Two: “I Am Not the Fine Make You Take Me For” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. A drunken hooplehead all but haunts Al Swearengen’s dreams — or, at least, keeps him awake — as the drunk stumbles outside Al’s balcony and…

Season Three, Episode One: “Tell Your God to Ready for Blood” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. Special note: for season three of Deadwood, The Alabama Take will publish reviews three times per week — each Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday — in order to be…

Season Two, Episode Twelve: “Boy-the-Earth-Talks-To” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. Capitalism works better than any economic system, but Deadwood is in full examination of how it looks when it is allowed to thrive unregulated. As Mr. Wu escapes Al Swearengen’s saloon, George Hearst arrives…

Season Two, Episode Eleven: “The Whores Can Come” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. What the penultimate episode of Deadwood‘s second season examines is the awfulness that death uncovers in people, perhaps because of the knowledge that the world spins, money is to be made,…

Season Two, Episode Ten: “Advances, None Miraculous” Note: each writing will spoil the episode in review but will not discuss any future episodes. Before getting into episode ten of the second season, feast your eyes just below to see that HBO dropped the first teaser trailer for the movie that will release on May 31st.…