Season
1 of Deadwood trudged along. It wasn’t great but it was ok, you could keep
watching and it neither made you all that excited to watch nor angry. Season 2
however starts a new trend that ruins almost everything that follows. For some
reason the characters begin speaking in this strange indirect manner. No one
will say I or you, they’ll start saying things like “should the lady wish to
speak, then I in consort may pass her message” and blah blah blah. It is
ridiculously infuriating. It’s a pet peeve of mine when characters don’t speak
like normal people, it takes me completely out of the show. Luckily they slowed
it down considerably by the end of the season but good god was it tough to make
it there.
Other
than the annoying speaking style, this season also is not that interesting.
Gone is the cool killing of mofo’s and badassness in the camp. Now the show is
about building a school, setting up a bank and boring me. Again, things pick up
a bit at the end but it doesn’t make up for all the rest. The new villain for
the season, Mr. Wolcott, is a real weirdo. You definitely don’t like the guy,
he does some pretty terrible things and he has an angering way about him. But
he’s just not quite strong enough the support the whole season.
I
struggle to write more but there just isn’t all that much to say. It is an
uninteresting season, which kind of puts into perspective why the series was
eventually cancelled.
Score: 4/10
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