![]() ![]() ![]() When it premiered in 2004, the program became instantly notorious for its pungent period details, blunt sexuality, graphic violence and, above all, the soaring arias of profanity carried to Shakespearean heights by Ian McShane’s aptly named Al Swearengen. Dayton Callie (left) as Charlie Utter and Molly Parker as Alma Ellsworth in "Deadwood: The Movie." (Courtesy Warrick Page/HBO) ![]() “It is my considerable happiness to see you again,” swoons Molly Parker’s twice-widowed Alma Ellsworth upon being reunited with her long-ago lover, Sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant), “as if a dream might come alive to draw breath.” For die-hard fans, these 110 minutes will feel very much like a dream indeed, one full of fond, familiar faces in which old wrongs are righted, amends are made and everyone takes a turn on the dance floor before getting a proper, sentimental sendoff. That it turned out to be this terrific is cause for celebration. The fact that “Deadwood: The Movie” even exists at all is something of a logistical miracle. For more than a decade, fans left dangling by season three’s abrupt, unresolved ending have clung to whispers and rumors of a two-hour movie that would wrap things up - an undertaking that seemed impossible given the scale of the production, plethora of plotlines and busy schedules of its sprawling ensemble cast. Timothy Olyphant as Sheriff Seth Bullock and John Hawkes as Sol Star in "Deadwood: The Movie." (Courtesy Warrick Page/HBO) This article is more than 2 years old.ĭavid Milch’s short-lived and long-lamented HBO western “Deadwood” gets a belated series finale this Friday night, some 13 years after being unexpectedly canceled just before production was to begin on the show’s fourth season. ![]()
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