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Deadwood Season 2 Spoilers, Part 1 « Thread Started on Sept 12, 2004, 11:25am »
This thread contains general Season 2 spoilers, followed by spoilers for episodes 13-18. Spoilers for episodes 19-24 are now in another thread, here.
Until the episodes actually air, please consider these "potential" spoilers only. In other words, I cannot guarantee that what is described in the spoilers will actually occur on the show. If a spoiler on this page has been found by someone else, I have credited them below. If you want to quote elsewhere any spoilers you read here, I won't mind, but please mention my site as being where you got them (deadwoodstage.proboards34.com). Thanks! ~ Rhoswen • LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2005 - HBO's hit Sunday-night western drama series DEADWOOD kicks off its second season of 12 episodes Sunday, March 6 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT). (source: HBO press release) General Season 2 Spoilers:
• Episode production numbers, air dates, and titles: Ep 13 - 201 - 03/06/05 - A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 1 Ep 14 - 202 - 03/13/05 - A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 2 Ep 15 - 203 - 03/20/05 - New Money Ep 16 - 204 - 03/27/05 - Requiem for a Gleet* Ep 17 - 205 - 04/03/05 - Complications Ep 18 - 206 - 04/10/05 - Something Very Expensive Ep 19 - 207 - 04/17/05 - E.B. Was Left Out Ep 20 - 208 - 04/24/05 - Childish Things Ep 21 - 209 - 05/01/05 - Amalgamation and Capital Ep 22 - 210 - 05/08/05 - Advances, None Miraculous Ep 23 - 211 - 05/15/05 - The Whores Can Come Ep 24 - 212 - 05/22/05 - Boy The Earth Talks To
*(Don't worry; I didn't know what "gleet" meant either, so I looked it up. Gleet is: "a chronic inflammation (as gonorrhea) of a bodily orifice usually accompanied by an abnormal discharge." Ick.)
• LOS ANGELES - Get ready! Deadwood, the hit series on HBO, is coming back with 12 new episodes. Beginning March 6, addicted audiences will notice a few new characters, and a whole new set of problems.
This season moves into the spring of 1877, which brings major changes to the Black Hills mining camp, in the form of new arrivals, and the encroaching forces of modernism and capitalism as it becomes an official part of the United States.
Created and executive produced by David Milch, Deadwood wrapped up its first season last June. The series was nominated for 11 Emmys last year and won two - one for best directing in a drama series for Walter Hill and best sound editing for a series. The freshman show was also recently nominated for two Golden Globe awards for best television series drama and best performance by an actor in a television series drama for Ian McShane who plays the part of the vile Gem Theater owner Al Swearengen. (Ian McShane won the Golden Globe award for which he was nominated.)
Cast regulars on the second season of Deadwood include Timothy Olyphant (Seth Bullock), Ian McShane (Al Swearengen), John Hawkes (Sol Star), Molly Parker (Alma Garret), Powers Boothe (Cy Tolliver), Robin Weigert (Calamity Jane), Brad Dourif (Doc Cochran), Leon Rippy (Tom Nuttall), Paula Malcomson (Trixie), Sean Bridgers (Johnny Burns), W. Earl Brown (Dan Dority), Dayton Callie (Charlie Utter), Jim Beaver (Ellsworth), William Sanderson (E.B. Farnum), Kim Dickens (Joanie Stubbs), Jeffrey Jones (A.W. Merrick), Titus Welliver (Silas Adams), Anna Gunn (Martha Bullock), Garret Dillahunt (Francis or Samuel Wolcott [he's called both names in various articles]), Bree Seanna Wall (Sofia Metz) and Josh Eriksson (William Bullock). (source: The Deadwood Hills Pioneer)
• The spring of 1877 brings major changes to Deadwood as new citizens arrive, and the camp becomes an official part of the United States, leading modernism and capitalism to the outlaw town. As well, with the possible loss of land rights looming, citizens struggle to cash in on their dreams before it’s too late, and a brutal power struggle erupts between the camp founders. A new day is dawning in Deadwood. (source: corusent.com)
• Times are changing in the outlaw camp known as Deadwood, as civilization threatens its citizens' hard-won claims. With the camp becoming a town, new arrivals will struggle with the settlement's founders-and in Deadwood, power struggles have a way of turning violent. (source: HBO)
• For better and worse, times are changing in the outlaw camp known as Deadwood. Facing a government of outsiders and the possible loss of claim rights, denizens struggle to cash in on their dreams before it's too late. The ascension of Deadwood from camp to town is imminent, and new arrivals are ushering in an era filled with hard decisions and brutal power struggles amongst the camp founders. (source: HBO)
• Cy Tolliver wants to expand his saloon business. (source: corusent.com)
• Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact, as the Borg Queen) joins the cast as Maddie, Joanie's New York-imported partner (source: corusent.com):
• Pictures of Anna Gunn (Martha Bullock) (source: bonho at HBO boards) and Josh Eriksson (William Bullock):
• Sean Bridgers (Johnny Burns) and Titus Welliver (Silas Adams) will be regulars in season 2.
• Speaking of Titus Welliver, he had long hair and a full beard at the 2004 Emmy Awards HBO After Party, so that may be the way he'll look in season 2, at least for the first few episodes (since that's what they were filming when the Emmy Awards aired). Updated 1/22/2005 - Titus still had his new look at the Golden Globe Awards on 1/16/2005, so it looks like Silas Adams wins the prize so far for "most-changed character" (Emmy and Golden Globes pics below):
• Garret Dillahunt, who played Jack McCall in season 1, will play a brand new character, Francis Wolcott, an emissary of George Hearst.
• Robin Weigert will be back as Calamity Jane in season 2.
• Ricky Jay (Eddie Sawyer) will not be returning for season 2. Read all about it in this article in the NY Daily News, dated 9/27/2004. (source: lotr8v82 at HBO boards)
• From an interview with David Milch, we may see more of Hostetler (Richard Gant), the black character who was in one scene in the hardware store last season (the man Seth was thinking of buying land from, so he could build a house). There may be another black character, a "subservient black man who dresses in a stolen war uniform and runs errands for white people." (Maybe Milch is not serious about this last role for a new black character, and maybe he is; that was his description of the role as quoted in the interview, though. A casting call for the following role went out in September 2004: "GENERAL, age 50's, Afro male, a military academic type, Lead/recurring role." A spoiler for episode 17 describes a similar role, played by the same actor Milch wanted for the "subservient" role, so they're probably the same character. We'll have to wait and see how subservient he is. I hope not so much.) Season 2 General Spoilers continue in the next post...
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Re: Spoilers for Season 2 of Deadwood « Reply #1 on Nov 2, 2004, 8:35pm »
Season 2 General Spoilers, continued... • Deadwood screenshots from HBO's 2005 shows promo video:
• Text of Deadwood promo aired on January 31, 2005 (source: IluvSeth at HBO boards): AL: Storms clouds gather. Maybe that is cause for cuttin’ some throat. JANE: I’m back in camp ‘cause I’m dyin’. DOC: Jesus Christ, I do NOT need to kill another man. SETH: I don’t believe I’m to be relied upon for good judgment. CY: Joanie! JOANIE: I don’t work here no more, Cy, understand? CY: It’s kill you, or let you go, but I make it with you dead. JOANIE: Somethin’ terrible’s going happen here. SETH: There’ll be no murderin’ people in this camp or assaults on officials of any stripe. If you can’t live with that, get out of this camp. CHARLIE: Hostilities may be about to resume. ALMA: We do love each other. He will leave with me if I tell him that’s my wish. Now, I believe in you. SETH: I love her. SOL: You don’t get to walk away without sayin’ why. TRIXIE: Does he wanna die? I understand… that has it’s appeal. AL: You would not wanna be starin’ like that at me. SETH: Get in here and account for your insults. AL: Next one is to your head, do NOT doubt me.
• A post by Jim Beaver (Ellsworth), from a yahoogroups.com message board: "I play Ellsworth, the prospector (or as I like to describe him, Gabby Hayes with Tourette's Syndrome). It's a prominent part but not overwhelmingly so in the first season. We're shooting the second season now, and the part (as well as the show itself) is headed for much bigger things. What creator David Milch is after here is the story of civilization in microcosm. He started with a place completely outside the bounds of law, where literally ANYTHING was allowed, and he is detailing the arrival and effect of law, government, civility, prosperity, and the attendant chicanery necessary to circumvent those things. I think by the time this show has run its course, it will be epic in nature. Yes, I'm biased, but I've been doing this stuff for thirty-two years, and a lot of it feels like junk compared to what I'm part of now."
• According to Jenny Bloom on the DeadwoodHBO@yahoogroups.com board (she played the whore in the bathtub with Joanie (Kim Dickens) in a steamy scene in season 1), season 2 starts approximately 6 months from when season 1 ended (story-wise on the show). Also, the set is "at least three times as big as it was last season," and from what she has seen "it's only going to get bigger, much much bigger." Jenny will also be appearing in season 2.
• Parisse Boothe will return in her recurring role as Tessie, one of the girls at the Bella Union, and her role will become more prominent after Joanie leaves Cy's employ. (source: timesunion.com)
• According to an interview with David Milch in the Denver Post dated 10/27/2004 (perhaps offering hints about what to expect on the show): "Character is more important than language in Deadwood. The treatment of women is particularly intriguing. History notes the madam of a brothel set up a school for women, the first of its kind. 'She set up her own whorehouse, insisted prostitutes learn to read and write within six months or they couldn't stay,' Milch says. The saloon owner who abused the women at his brothel ended up hailed as a great philanthropist and supporter of the women's movement. 'The whole experience of the camp is shot through with those kinds of ironies,' Milch says."
• Cade Carradine, 22, the son of Keith Carradine (who played Wild Bill Hickok in season 1), will play a miner. (source: Northwest Herald; found by vitta at HBO boards)
• January 12, 2005 - HBO'S 'Deadwood', which was dead in the water due to the rainwater on the former Gene Autry Melody Ranch location, resumed shooting Wednesday. The site, which boasts two stages, will add a third when the show takes a break between seasons. (source: Variety)
• "There's a wonderful letter--Hickock's last letter--which he wrote to his wife of a week, and which moves from person to person in the course of the second season of the show, eventually finding it's way to millionaire George Hearst's geologist, who I've named Samuel Wolcott. In our story, Wolcott is a sexual sadist and a killer, and he'll be played by Garret Dillahunt, who played Jack McCall, Hickock's assassin, in the first season. So, in a sense, the guy who kills Hickock winds up as another character who is the recipient of his legacy, and who becomes fixated on him." (source: David Milch, quoted in True West Magazine) Season 2 General Spoilers continue in the next post...
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Re: Spoilers for Season 2 of Deadwood « Reply #2 on Dec 16, 2004, 8:17pm »
General Season 2 Spoilers, continued... • Screencaps from the Season 2 Launch Trailers:
• Description of new Deadwood promo aired on 02/12/05 (source: IluvSeth at HBO boards): Scene: Walking down the middle of the street at night from left to right: Jane (carrying a rifle), Seth, and Charlie. Scene: Trixie pointing a rifle (we don’t get to see at whom). AL: (To Dan who looks extremely distressed) “ … of grievous abominations and disorder, you and me walk into it together like always.” Scene: Shot of street with the words – THE NEW SEASON – pasted over it. JOANIE: Something terrible’s going to happen here. (VO scene of crowded street) Over blank screen: THE NEW SEASON Scene: Team of horses hitched to wagon, running, can’t see who’s driving. SETH: (to Alma) My proposal would be that we leave camp immediately. ALMA: (to Seth) A choice for me to make? (Alma’s right hand on Seth’s left cheek) AL: (on balcony to Seth on street) You would not wanna be staring like THAT at me. SETH: (on street looking up toward Al) Be where I can find ya. Scene: Closeup of Dan looking worried, but resolute. Scene: Closeup of Cy talking to two people (who?). CY: Our operation here is organized EXACTLY to capitalize on what this camp is ready for and what it’s going to become.”<br>Scene: Sol and Charlie, startled, Sol turns to look behind him. Scene: Dan and Johnny and several others picking up rifles, running. Scene: Trixie running. Scene: Seth (on floor, face bloody) pulls a knife out of his boot (VO Trixie: (on the verge of tears, yet angry) “Maybe he’ll f***in’ die.”<br>Scene: A man’s hands holding a derringer. CY: (to several of his whores) You’re gonna find out something now about yourselves and your fellow man.”<br>Scene: Man’s hands opening sealed letter. Scene: Seth and Alma embrace. Scene: Seth walking in the street. SOL: (Lying down, heavily bandaged) to Seth: “You don’t get to walk away without saying why.”<br>SETH: (to Sol) “I love her.”<br>Scene: Shot of street fades to shot of Al. EB: (To ?) speaking intensely “The claims, Richardson! They're being overturned.”<br>Scene: Hand with fistful of paper money fades to hand with poker chips. Scene: Seth and Alma in bed, Alma on top. Scene: Seth, Martha, William and Alma. SETH: “Let me introduce my wife, Martha, and our son, William.”<br>Scene: Alma, mouth open, blinks, tries to nod. Scene: Al and Seth fighting fades to scene of Sol and Charlie on street with someone pointing a rifle at them. Scene: Shot of Doc, Johnny is in the background. DOC: “Jesus Christ, I do not need to kill another man.”<br>Scene: Al on balcony fires rifle into air. Scene: Johnny handing drink towards Dan – sound of gunshot. Scene: Al points gun at Dan. AL: “Next one’s to your head, Dan.”<br>Scene: Closeup of Al fades to closeup of Martha, wide eyed. Scene: Al and Seth fighting (appear to be in Al’s upstairs quarters). Scene: Shot of man’s hands, panning for gold. Scene: Dan hitting someone on the floor, Johnny turns suddenly. Scene: Al on the floor, face bloody and swollen wearing longjohns. Scene: Someone hitting someone who’s lying in the mud. Scene: Trixie bending over Sol, who is lying in bed bandaged, she’s about to kiss him. Scene: Closeup of Joanie fades to shot of new madam. Scene: Seth throws a punch at Al. Scene: Closeup of Jane. Scene: Closeup of Al on floor, screaming. Scene: Seth outside of a building at night. AL: (to Seth, both are standing, both have cuts, scrapes and bruises on their face, Al’s left eye is swollen nearly shut) “Running away solves absolutely nothing.”<br>Lettering over blank screen: THE ONLY LAW Scene: Asian girls in cart. Scene: Joanie laying in bed, can’t see who’s in the room with her (looks like a man in the foreground). Scene: Two men fly over a balcony, fades to a man falls from a roof. Scene: A man (Sol?) laying in the street, hand over a bullet wound in his chest, that hand clutches a gun that looks a lot like Trixie’s little derringer. Lettering over blank screen: IS NO LAW AL: (lying in street, muddy, face bloody, raises knife in hand, looks up, yells) “Welcome to f***in’ Deadwood.”<br> • 2/26/2005 - Tiny promotional pictures for the new season. They sure are cute an' all, but I hope we'll get larger versions of them sometime soon. (source: directv ads for what's on HBO in March):
• 2/26/2005 - Pictures for the new season (sources: MSNBC and Newsday):
• 3/3/2005 - Charlie Utter (Dayton Callie) is Seth's deputy. (source: hollywoodreporter.com)
• 3/25/2005 - Pictures of Parisse Boothe, as Tessie, one of the Bella Union girls, and her father, Powers Boothe as Cy Tolliver, taken during the filming of season 2 (source: parisseboothe.com): Season 2 Episode Spoilers are in the next post.
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Re: Spoilers for Season 2 of Deadwood « Reply #3 on Jan 17, 2005, 7:24pm »
Season 2 Episode Spoilers
Ep 13, "A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 1":
• Swearengen and Bullock have an inadvertently public and violent confrontation over Bullock's relationship with Alma; Bullock and Utter discover that mistaken identity led to a fatal shooting at Nuttall's; and with a new business venture on the horizon, Stubbs and Tolliver await the arrival of some new whores on the next stage, which also bears two important reminders of Bullock's past. Written by David Milch; directed by Ed Bianchi. (source: BTN)
• 3/6/2005 - The name of the first two episodes is explained in the episode 202 (ep #14) spoiler section, two posts below.
• In the first episode of Season 2, a stagecoach comes to town and on board is Jack Langrishe, the prissy (but tough) head of a theater troupe, and a new madam, Maddie, ready to set up shop [She goes into business with Joanie Stubbs; they are partners in a new brothel, the Chez Ami]. Seth Bullock's son William also arrives with his governess in tow. She will get involved with Silas Adams. (source: filmjerk) (FYI: I haven't read anything else about the character of Jack Langrishe being on the show. I also haven't read anything else about the governess being on the stage. I'm not sure what that means.) (After the episode aired: Well, it meant neither one was on the stage.)
• Seth nearly beats Swearengen to death. (source: David Milch quote)
• Al Swearengen gets a bad case of kidney stones. (source: New Yorker; found by WobblyHeadedBob at TWoP)
• 2/21/2005 - In the second-season opener, Bullock and Swearengen settle their most recent score with a bloody brawl, and Joanie welcomes her new business partner---with or without Cy's blessing. Also: a stagecoach brings important passengers; and Utter and Bullock investigate a shooting at Tom Nuttall's. (source: TTV)
• 2/21/2005 - The acclaimed drama returns for a second season with an episode penned by creator David Milch. Lauded for its gritty realism, the Western hasn't lost a step: it's just as well-written, great looking---and profane---as ever. In the spring of 1877, Al Swearengen (Golden Globe winner Ian McShane) is reacting badly to news of the formation of the Dakota Territory. He publicly insults Sheriff Bullock (Timothy Olyphant), and the two have a bloody confrontation in the street. Meanwhile, a stagecoach arrives with some very notable passengers from Bullock's past. (source: TVG)
• 2/22/2005 - In the second season (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.; premieres March 6), Swearengen is under pressure as the territory prepares to be absorbed by the expanding U.S., bringing the threat of law and competition from corporations and other opportunists. When he sees workers putting up telegraph poles, what is progress to others is an encroachment on his action. "By all means, let's plant poles all across the country!" he shouts. "Festoon the c**ksucker with wires to hurry the sorry word and blinker our judgments! Ain't the state of things sorry enough? Don't we already face enough f***in' imponderables?" (source: Time)
• 2/25/2005 - Excerpts from an Entertainment Weekly review by Gillian Flynn, and the picture from the article: "Staring balefully from the roof of his saloon, Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) sees telegraph lines slowly slinking into Deadwood. News can now slip into town over wires any old time. ''Don't we face enough f---ing imponderables?'' he mutters.
Season 2 of HBO's pungent Western finds Swearengen unnerved. The territory's new governor has bestowed all power positions upon outsiders: Strangers will soon be fingering around in Swearengen's gold-rush town. Those telegraph lines mean 1&@# reg'lar people will get information he isn't privy to. Plus he feels like crap: The only thing that relieves his kidney stones involves a whore and her thumb.
The writers have provided a traditional, roiling showdown in the season premiere. (But first, viewers must get past the mystifying first 10 minutes, filled with dense discussions of government appointments and gold rights, as uncompelling as those trade-route taxation debates in The Phantom Menace.) In High Noon style, the prefight tension builds throughout the day: Reluctant sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) is carrying on a plaster-smashing affair with the Widow Garret (Molly Parker). Knotted by the imminent arrival of his wife and son in Deadwood, Bullock becomes enraged when Swearengen yells out a filthy remark about his mistress. The resulting fracas is over-the-balcony fisticuffs filled with flying blood, cracked ribs, and a really big knife.
Morose and full of liquor, Calamity Jane offers comic relief, right down to farting after a fall from her horse. But she's never fully ridiculous, because her boozing is fueled by the death of her best friend, Hickok. ''Promise when I'm dead you'll plant me with a view of Bill,'' she requests.
Deadwood revels in blurry-quick flashes of viciousness — like when a drunk gets impaled on a set of decorative antlers (Ouch!). Just as stinging are moments that smack of evil to come. When saloon owner Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe) thickly, tensely wishes luck to his former love Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens) as she opens her own brothel, it feels like the beating he'd like to give her has simply gone up ahead to wait in ambush.
The violence makes the instances of grace so poignant they're almost painful. Sol Star (John Hawkes), injured by a bullet, sways into the street to back his friend Bullock when he faces Swearengen. Civil War-rattled Doc Cochran (the brilliant, water-eyed Brad Dourif) takes in stray humans, when he'd rather get pickled. These are mere air pockets of decency, as Deadwood is deeply unromantic. Viewers craving lush locales and romantic pairings should keep moving. Deadwood is packed with mud and stink and man-eating hogs; bodies are revealed mainly as sources of pain and humiliation. It's a heavy, nasty vision of America past. Grade: A-"
• 3/1/2005 - Telegraph poles and outside supervision are on their way into town, and both the flow of information and threat of oversight worry local kingpin Al Swearengen (played perfectly Ian McShane), who is doubled over in agony and not just because of a fight with sheriff Seth Bullock (Tim Olyphant) that has them rolling in the muck.
Bullock's romance with wealthy widow Alma Garrett (Molly Parker) grows complicated. Prostitute Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens) formalizes her split from Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe), who is Swearengen's rival for the vice business and control of the camp. And then there's the encroaching government, which could jeopardize everything the people of Deadwood have built for themselves. (source: suntimes.com)
• 3/2/2005 - You can listen to the beginning of the fight between Seth and Al here. Deadwood is discussed in the second half of the story. (source: NRP program Fresh Air, link posted by hcwoodward at TWoP)
• Seth's wife, Martha, and his nephew, William, arrive on the morning stagecoach. Seth and Al are rolling around in the dirt, trying to kill each other, when the stagecoach arrives. Seth and Al's fight has carried them over the Gem balcony and into the muddy street. (source: sacbee.com)
• 3/4/2005 - As Seth and Al are wrestling in the mud in front of the Gem, Al pulls out a knife. "Welcome to f***ing Deadwood," Swearengen bellows to the stage's passengers, a split second after deciding not to slit Bullock's throat. "It can be combative." (source: Chicago Tribune)
• 3/4/2005 - "The awful possibility in these matters is both men sustaining mortal injury," Tolliver calmly opines while watching Bullock and Swearengen's bloody battle. (source: Star-Telegram)
• 3/4/2005 - Bullock must deal with the unexpectedly early arrival in camp of his wife and son. (source: Portland Phoenix)
• Picture from this episode (source: HBO):
• There is not much "erotic" spark between Seth and Martha. (source: NY Metro) She calls him "Mr. Bullock" at first. (source: bergen) And Seth calls her "Mrs. Bullock." (source: Chicago Tribune)
• Robin Weigert as Calamity Jane makes the briefest of foul-mouthed cameos in this episode, and is back "in the middle of the action" next week. (source: bostonherald.com)
• Roles:
-Harry Young
-Jack Langrishe - age 50s, male, a loud, overly theatrical actor. lead/recurring role. (This character did not appear in this episode.)
-Madam/Maddie (played by Alice Krige) - age 40, female, beautiful and hot, gritty. lead/recurring role.
-Miss Isringhausen (played by Sarah Paulson) - William Bullock's governess, or as Al refers to her, "Someone from Farnum's, that c**t with the long Kraut moniker." (Al quote source: Maxim interview with Ian McShane, posted by operaman56 on DeadwoodHBO Yahoo board):
-Slippery Dan - age 30s to 50s, male, a funny character, an alcoholic. lead/recurring role.
-William (played by Josh Eriksson)
-Willis Henderson
-Ellsworth's Rifleman (played by Christian DeStefanis, shown below in costume (source: commercialappeal):
-Ellsworth's Rifleman (played by Jackson Bolt, who also played Vigilante Rider in Ep 1, "Deadwood"): Episode Spoilers continue in the next post...
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Re: Deadwood Season 2 Spoilers « Reply #4 on Feb 21, 2005, 8:07pm »
Episode Spoilers, continued... These are general spoilers for the first four episodes (Some are spoilers for the first episode, but there wasn't room for them in the above post, and others are from articles that didn't necessarily distinguish what happens in which episode):
• 3/5/2005 - Here are pictures of 3 new characters: Martha Bullock, Maddie, and Francis Wolcott (who, in some articles, is referred to as Samuel Wolcott -- Why? I have no idea.):
• 3/5/2005 - In Sunday's season premiere, we find Bullock and Swearengen going at it, first with words, then fists, over a crude remark about Bullock's mistress. Before the two tangle, though, the sheriff inquires politely whether his foe is carrying a knife - and Swearengen assures him he's unarmed. But as the bloody brawl spills out onto a muddy main street, Swearengen pulls a long blade out of his boot and calls out almost apologetically to his opponent, "Bullock! I do have a knife - it come to me now."
During the fight, Bullock takes a viciously sneaky whack to the head from the butt of Dan Dority's rifle. Bullock is knocked unconscious but later vows to settle the score with the varmint who clocked him. (source: Washington Post)
• 3/5/2005 - Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant), hardware store owner and reluctant sheriff, is what passes for the pillar of virtue in this bustling cesspool. But even he's getting down with his bad self, meeting gold-rich widow Alma Garrett (Molly Parker) for passionate, secret encounters that everybody in town knows about.
Elsewhere, Swearengen's rival saloon-owner, Cy Tolliver (played with scary, silky relish by Powers Boothe), is furious that his favorite prostitute/employee is going into business for herself with a somewhat classier brothel. (source: oregonlive.com)
• 3/5/2005 - Trixie (Paula Malcomson), torn between Sol and Al, winds up nursing both of them. She also asks Sol to teach her bookkeeping. (source: bergen.com)
• 3/5/2005 - Upset that the community treats the orphan she adopted as a ward of the town, Alma likens the place to Thoreau-like experiments back East, exclaiming, "Are we a filthy, vicious outpost of Brook Farm?"
And a mysterious gentleman, Wolcott, well groomed and well spoken, also sweeps into town. When he explains that he is an agent for George Hearst, the real-life millionaire miner and rancher who held interests in, among other claims, the Comstock Lode, townspeople go limp with the kind of awe and terror usually associated with Stalin. E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson), the oily and obsequious hotel owner, turns ashen at the name. "In a camp like this," he says in apology for his establishment's bad service, "one draws one's menials from a small and brackish pool." (source: Houston Chronicle)
• 3/6/2005 - On the coach approaching Deadwood as the season starts is the widow of Bullock's brother, whom the Deadwood sheriff had married out of duty, and to help raise their young son. The boy is distracted on the dusty ride by the charms of his fellow travelers - a fresh group of women to populate Stubbs' brothel. (source: ctnow.com)
• 3/6/2005 - The season 2 premiere contains a nasty fistfight and an even nastier gunfight ending not in glory, but in embarrassment and painful injuries; the second episode includes a frank, protracted sex act and a bloody autopsy scene, and the third and fourth installments revolve around a singularly painful medical procedure performed without anesthetic.
Tending a wounded Sol Star, Trixie says, "I pray to God your shoulder pains like some sharp-toothed creature's inside you and at it and gnawing." Swearengen chides smart-mouthed henchman Silas Adams (Titus Welliver), "Over time, your quickness with a c**ky rejoinder must have gotten you many punches in the face." (source: Star-Ledger)
• 3/6/2005 - This season, the residents of Deadwood, most of them there to make their fortunes, begin to face another civilizing force. The gold in the hills is running out, and what's left is about to be mined by large companies using high-pressure hoses. Soon, human vices will battle corporate vice. (source: Winston-Salem Journal)
• 3/6/2005 - In future episodes, another brothel will open up in town with a madame (Alice Krige) who may be potentially more ruthless than the men in charge of the others, and the deceptively canny Garret will pursue greater ambitions. (source: Long Beach Press-Telegram)
• 3/6/2005 - A new brothel, Joani Stubbs' Chez Ami, [will have] a feminine designer's touch - curtains, soft furniture, rabbits' feet on a dressing table for the application of cosmetics. (source: Denver Post)
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Re: Deadwood Season 2 Spoilers « Reply #5 on Feb 26, 2005, 1:56am »
Episode Spoilers, continued... Ep 14, "A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 2":
• As the day's injured recoup, the night brings a new set of tensions. Alma and an increasingly self-destructive Bullock face an abrupt decision on their future, even as the Sheriff seeks to make good on a family pledge to recover his badge and guns. At the Gem, while Swearengen readies for another showdown with Bullock, infighting between Adams and Dority turns deadly and yields more feed for Wu's pigs. Doc Cochran is surprised by Calamity Jane, returned to camp in a state of inebriated deterioration. Written by Jody Worth; directed by Ed Bianchi. (sources: HBO and BTN)
• 2/21/2005 - I'm not sure which episode this picture of Seth and Al is from, but I'm guessing it's post-fight, and it's night, so it's probably from the second episode. (source: dangerousuniverse.com): Seth from the same scene with Al (source: Comcast on demand video):
• Seth gets his gun and badge back:
• 2/28/2005 - Calamity Jane returns to camp; Swearengen nurses his wounds while Dan and Johnny await Bullock's next move; Joanie and Maddie prepare their new place of business; Alma is asked to make a decision about her future. (source: TTV)
• 2/28/2005 - The aftermath of the brawl between Swearengen and Bullock plays out in the well-crafted conclusion of the two-part second-season opener. Day has turned to night, but the tension is still high, especially when the simmering rivalry between Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) and Silas Adams (Titus Welliver) has fatal consequences at the Gem Saloon. In the meantime, Bullock escorts his wife (Anna Gunn) and nephew (Josh Eriksson) to their new home; Alma Garret must make a difficult decision about her future; and Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) stumbles back into camp. (source: TVG)
• Neither Dan nor Silas is the one who dies in their fight, because they both appear in future episodes. (Entertainment Weekly's article says, "a drunk gets impaled on a set of decorative antlers" at some point this season, so I'm gonna keep an eye peeled for the antlers in this scene, to see if AntlerMan is the one who bites it in this episode.)
• 3/1/2005 - Al and Seth, after a symbolic exchange, arrive at a fragile truce. Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) has returned to town needing a liver transplant Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif) is helpless to provide. (source: NY Metro) Her liver extends from her chest to her groin, Doc informs her. (source: bergen.com)
• 3/2/2005 - This episode will swear you off bacon forever. (source: review by Mark A. Perigard at Boston Herald)
• 3/2/2005 - Seth has to recover his badge and guns because he removed them before his fight with Al. (source: NPR program Fresh Air, link posted by hcwoodward at TWoP)
• 3/4/2005 - Dority (W. Earl Brown), Swearengen's cold-blooded enforcer, has hurt feelings when his boss sides with his rival in a barroom fight, and weeps like a schoolboy. "Whatever lurks ahead, whatever grievous abominations and discord," Swearengen tells him soothingly, "you and me walk into it together, like always." (source: NY Times)
• 3/5/2005 - "Well, you are an entangled inebriate, are you not?" says the town doctor as he finds a drunken Calamity Jane tumbled off her horse. (source: oregonlive.com)
• 3/6/2005 - [This] episode includes a frank, protracted sex act and a bloody autopsy scene. (source: Star-Ledger)
• 3/6/2005 - A dead guy gets fed to the hogs. (source: sptimes.com)
• 3/6/2005 - Regarding the meaning of the title, "A Lie Agreed Upon," the second episode contains a revealing conversation between Swearengen and newspaper editor A.W. Merrick (Jeffrey Jones). Swearengen wants Merrick to print a version of the Swearengen-Bullock showdown story that omits the most unpleasant details because it will be good for business. Merrick wants to recount the whole story, "... the facts rendered fully, within social standards and sensibilities, without bias or abridgement."
"Why do I imagine a snake swallowing its tail?" Swearengen replies.
The episode ends with two Swearengen monologues, one suggesting an idealized official version of the day's events, the other getting closer to the truth.
"Tonight throughout Deadwood," Swearengen dictates to Merrick, "heads may be laid to pillows, assuaged and reassured, for that purveyor for profit of everything sordid and vicious, Al Swearengen, already beaten to a fare-thee-well earlier in the day by sheriff Bullock, has returned to the sheriff the implements and ornaments of his office. Without the tawdry walls of the saloon The Gem, decent citizens may pursue with a new and jaunty freedom all aspects of Christian commerce ... ."
Later, in solitude, Swearengen offers a postscript. "A full fair-mindedness also requires us to report that within The Gem, on Deadwood's main thoroughfare, comely whores, decently priced liquor and the squarest games of chance in the hills remain unabatedly available at all hours, seven days a week." (source: Star-Ledger)
• 3/10/2005 - Al Swearengen manages to deliver an obscenity-filled lecture while participating in a sex act. (source: Cincinnati Post) Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), delivers a second speech [like the one last season] while receiving oral sex, which must be some kind of TV record. (source: Variety) (This happens in one of the first 4 episodes, so I'm guessing it's in this one, since by next week's episode Al's in a lot of pain.)
• Pictures from episode 202 (sources: first two, HBO; last one, turtlegirl76 at HBO boards):
• Roles:
-Ellsworth's Rifleman (played by Jackson Bolt)
-Huckster (played by Gill Gayle, who played the same role in episodes 1, 3, and 5 of season 1)
-Rifleman (played by Sam Spector)
-Cy Tolliver (played by Powers Boothe) and Mr Wu (played by Keone Young) appear in this episode
-Leon (the opium-addicted card dealer played by Larry Cedar), and also in at least episodes 3 thru 7, according to imdb.com. (It looks like, with Eddie Sawyer not being around anymore to deal the cards at the Bella Union, we might see a lot more of Leon.) Episode Spoilers continue in the next post...
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Re: Deadwood Season 2 Spoilers « Reply #6 on Feb 26, 2005, 2:01am »
Episode Spoilers, continued... Ep 15, "New Money":
• Samuel Wolcott (Garret Dillahunt), tricky chief scout for a powerful mining operation, arrives to shake up the status quo, beginning with Tolliver; Dority, Burns and Trixie fret as an ailing Swearengen refuses visitors and medical attention; Farnum finds a choice mark to buy the Hickok letter, but it becomes unclear who's conning whom; Stubbs' new partner Maddie reveals she's also running a game, and their new brothel, the Chez Ami, gets its first customer. Written by Elizabeth Sarnoff; directed by Steve Shill. (source: BTN)
• Wolcott is a sexual sadist and a killer. (source: David Milch quote in True West Magazine)
• 2/26/2005 - An invasive urological procedure conducted without benefit of anesthesia, "a situation involving significant unpleasantness," is performed. Al has a metal probe called a Van Buren's sound (one is pictured below) inserted into his urethra by Doc Cochran, a "tormented physician on the verge of a breakdown." If the procedure succeeds, Swearengen will pass a bladder stone. If it fails, the next recourse will be surgery, which the doctor dreads because of its high risk of mortality. (Oops, I had assumed this procedure happened in episode 16, when it was actually in episode 15. Sorry 'bout that.) www.wellspringurology.com/clamps.php
• 3/4/2005 - Wolcott (Garret Dillahunt) enlists Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe) and E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson) to spread rumors designed to get the original settlers to sell off their gold claims in panic. (source: bergen.com)
• 3/7/2005 - Swearengen's deteriorating health worries his employees; Alma ponders a real-estate move after surveying her operation; a mining-company agent makes his presence known; and Maddie lets Joanie in on a secret about their first client. (source: TTV)
• From the HBO preview for this episode, it appears that the "real-estate move" Alma ponders is buying the Grand Central Hotel from E.B.
• 3/7/2005 - Deadwood is a place where it's never clear who's duping whom, and on this intriguing episode, rumors and con games abound as the town's financial future grows murkier. The arrival of mining-company agent Francis Wolcott (Garret Dillahunt) sends shock waves through the community as residents worry about the validity of their gold claims. His visit also gets the attention of Joanie's partner, Maddie. She knows yet another reason why he's come to town and uses it to her full advantage. (source: TVG)
• 3/10/2005 - "I'm gonna pass this through your penis up into your bladder, Al, and I'm gonna say this once: I'm sorry for how it hurts," Cochran tells him. (source: Los Angeles Times)
• 3/17/2005 - Jane and Trixie have a hilarious scene. We find out a couple reasons why Joanie Stubbs gets the big bucks. (source: DonLogan at HBO Deadwood boards)
• Pictures for this episode (source: HBO):
• Roles:
-Carrie
-Mr Wu (played by Keone Young)
-Leon (played by Larry Cedar) Episode Spoilers continue in the next post...
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Re: Deadwood Season 2 Spoilers « Reply #7 on Feb 26, 2005, 2:02am »
Episode Spoilers, continued... Ep 16, "Requiem for a Gleet":
• Cochran contemplates a procedure that could cure Swearengen, or kill him; His employer indisposed, Dority must attend to a former fellow-bushwacker come to request Swearengen’s permission to pull a job, and to Wu, who attempts to convey news of a “tong” rival newly arrived from San Francisco; Bullock attempts to settle into domesticity, while Star gets a new combination bookkeeper/roommate – Trixie; Alma cuts ties with Sofia's tutor, Miss Isringhausen, who takes refuge with Adams; and the arrival of county commissioner Hugo Jarry (Stephen Tobolowsky) spawns rumors about the camp's future and legal ownership of the gold claims. Written by Ted Mann; directed by Alan Taylor. (source: BTN)
The day after the bladder-stone scene, there is an encounter between Dan Dority and E. B. Farnum. Standing at the bar of the Gem, E. B. reports that his sleep the previous night was disrupted by pain-filled screams. Dority, determined to conceal that Al is seriously ill, refuses the bait: FARNUM: I heard screaming. From Al's room. DORITY: Happens up there many a f***ing evening. FARNUM: Al was f***ing screaming, Dan. And I'm wondering how he's feeling this morning. And you dancing around the pole ain't allaying my f***ing anxieties.
There is a scene between Mr. Wu and Dan Dority. Wu comes to the Gem in agitation, having just spied a member of a rival San Francisco tong, freshly arrived on a stagecoach and already in conversation with one of Swearengen's business competitors. Because Al is still indisposed by illness, Dority tries to handle the conversation. But Wu's side of the dialogue is limited to gesticulations and the exclamations, "Swearengen!," "c***sucker!," and "San Francisco!" He says "c***sucker" about ten times, with increasing vehemence, until Dority, whose English isn't all that grammatical, either, gets the drift. (source: New Yorker article by Mark Singer; link to article text posted by hcwoodward at TWoP)
• 3/6/2005 - When one character kills another in the fourth new episode, he instructs an underling to feed the wretch to the pigs, to "throw him away" like so much trash. (source: azcentral.com)
• 3/14/2005 - Al Swearengen gets a taste of frontier medicine in a scene not for the squeamish--and not for the usual reasons (i.e. profanity). Bedridden due to bladder stones, Swearengen has been reduced to a quivering mass of delirium and sweat. As a last resort, Doc Cochran, who witnessed the surgical butchery of the Civil War firsthand, proposes a procedure that could do more harm than good. Meanwhile, a county official (Stephen Tobolowsky) creates more panic about gold claims, and Wu warily eyes a rival from San Francisco. (source: TVG)
• 3/14/2005 - Alma fires Miss Isringhausen as her ward's tutor; Bullock struggles with domestic life; Cochran suggests a risky surgical procedure for an ailing Swearengen; and Dority deals with a former associate's robbery proposal. (source: TTV)
• 3/24/2005 - Even with Al out of commission, Deadwood's rough brand of commerce continues, as bushwackers, a new Chinese gang and a freshly elected County Commissioner give Dority all he can handle. Will Doc Cochran dare a procedure to save Swearengen's life? (source: HBO Deadwood Newsletter)
• Pictures for the episode (source: HBO): (My speculation based on the above pictures is that shown in them, with Wolcott, are the characters Lee (played by Philip Moon), who is - I'm guessing - the head of the rival tong from San Francisco, and Carrie (played by Izabella Miko), who is no longer "on ice" from the looks of her.)
• Roles:
-Hugo Jarry - county commissioner (played by Stephen Tobolowsky; also shown below in Deadwood):
-Carrie (played by Izabella Miko, shown below at the Deadwood Season 2 Premiere):
-Crop Ear (I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that this is Dan's "former fellow bushwacker.")
-Tess - Bella Union girl who bathes commissioner Jarry (played by Parisse Boothe):
-Mr Wu (played by Keone Young) and Dan Dority (played by W. Earl Brown) are in a scene together in this episode, and Wu's pigs make an appearance, too. (After the episode aired: Wu's pigs weren't shown this episode... darn. They were just mentioned by Dan after he killed Crop Ear.)
-Cy Tolliver (played by Powers Boothe) and Leon (played by Larry Cedar) appear in this episode. Episode Spoilers continue in the next post...
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