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Deadwood Fans, Here’s Your Conclusion: Screw You!

October 14, 2008 by Jim Connelly

I’m convinced the only reason that David Milch’s extraordinary deconstruction of the Western, Deadwood, isn’t regularly on the shortlist of Greatest Television Shows Of All-Time is that it never got a chance to end properly.

After three seasons, David Milch and/or HBO cut it short, promising those of us who loved its multi-dimensional characters, intertwining plotlines and poetically profane use of language that there would be a pair of two-hour movies to wrap things up.

Yeah, surrrrrrrrrrre.

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Filed Under: Actual Mileage, Television Tagged With: David Milch, Deadwood, HBO

There Is A Cure For the Summer Tube Blues

August 23, 2006 by Jim Connelly

Thanks to FOX, who like to start their shows early because they spend October ruining the Baseball Playoffs, the fall television season is starting this week. Which means, finally, rescue from the summer TV doldrums, right?

Wrong.

If you think that there hasn’t good stuff on the tube this summer, you haven’t been paying attention. Or you don’t have cable, which is where these half-dozen good-to-all-time-classic shows live.

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Filed Under: Reviews, Television Tagged With: BBC America, Deadwood, Entourage, Eureka, F/X, HBO, Its-Always-Sunny-in-Philadelphia, Life-on-Mars, Rescue-Me, Sci-Fi-Channel, Television

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