Re: deadwood.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 19Scout77</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When you are done with Deadwood, check out Rome. </div></div>
Both are extraordinary. They're amazingly well scripted and there's not a weak acting performance in either of them, not even from the lowliest of extras.
There's been at least four (and possibly five) Deadwood alumni on Sons of Anarchy.
The reason they drop so many F-bombs, BTW, is that they originally scripted it with authentic but quaint-sounding Victorian-era profanities. Screening audiences were laughing at the odd-sounding swear words, which was not the impact they wanted. The profanities were supposed to punch up the dialogue, not cause laughter, so they switched to contemporary cussing.
Some guy has
a website with the cuss count per episode. Deadwood drops the F-bomb 1.56 times PER MINUTE minute for thirty-six episodes.
But I actually prefer Rome because it's got better nekkidness.
EDIT:
Timothy Olyphant, the deputy US Marshall in the new FX channel series, Justified, also was Deadwood's sheriff in the HBO series. It's essentially the same character except the bug hasn't crawled quite as far up Deputy Givens' ass ...yet.