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Deadwood
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Christ, what an anticlimax. The setup was so good -- so many interesting possibilities. Aunt Lou, Woo's Chinese picking up guns, Pinkertons and Al's people and Trixie and....
And the result? One dead whore who played a completely unmemorable role in the series, and Hearst gets on a wagon to go to some other mine.
Sure, it looks like a fine setup for next season? But so what? If they're all going to fizzle like this, I don't care how good the setup is.
Deadwood is catching one of the diseases the Sopranos developed: That rather than wrap up a season in a satisfying way, they are more focused on creating a teaser for the next season.
The other disease the Sopranos got was focusing more on what happens than on how it happens - so we learn that Chris falls back into using heroin and Anthony Jr. is growing up with some responsibility, but we don't see how that develops and that's the interesting part. Deadwood doesn't have that disease, but after last night I'm thinking it's only a matter of time.
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