Shōgun Won the Attention WarWhen so much of the battle for TV viewership is getting audiences to watch a single screen, translation is Shōgun’s not-secret weapon.
ByKathryn VanArendonk
vulture lists
Every HBO Show, RankedHBO has produced some of television’s best shows, but which ones are the network’s best?
ByNoel Murray and Scott Tobias
chapters
The Day Deadwood DiedHow a single phone call and “a clash of fucking egos,” as star Ian McShane put it, led to the abrupt end of the beloved HBO series.
Deadwood Season-Finale Recap: Bloody ThoughtsFor all the gore, madness, and opportunism showcased in this final hour, we’re left with a sense of hope for Deadwood, its characters, and ourselves.
ByMatt Zoller Seitz
a show agreed upon
Join Us In DeadwoodA new collection of recaps discussing season one of HBO’s classic western.
ByMatt Zoller Seitz
tv recaps
Deadwood Recap: Growing PainsAs Deadwood grows, so does the gap between the powerful and powerless generally, and the schism between the worlds of men and women in particular.
ByMatt Zoller Seitz
tv recaps
Deadwood Recap: Drawing StrawsA vivid supporting player steps into the spotlight in a story line where self-interest and civic-mindedness ironically intertwine.
Deadwood Recap: The Dam Has BrokenArguably Deadwood’s first great post-Bill guest character, Kristen Bell’s Flora is a walking, talking emblem of the camp’s dynamic.
ByMatt Zoller Seitz
tv recaps
Deadwood Recap: A World That Can’t BeThe women of Deadwood are doing what they feel they have to do to improve their lives — or prevent them from getting worse.
ByMatt Zoller Seitz
tv recaps
Deadwood Recap: High Fever BluesA brutal and exhausting hour brings forth a biblically inflected plague that torments the just and unjust alike.
Deadwood Recap: All Are NecessaryThis isn’t just a public tragedy, it’s a trauma inflicted on a town whose emerging self-image will be at least partly formed by it.
ByMatt Zoller Seitz
tv recaps
Deadwood Recap: Pardon My FrenchAl Swearengen has shown us many sides up until now, but this is the first episode where he’s seemed in over his head.
ByMatt Zoller Seitz
tv recaps
Deadwood Recap: Means to an End“Deep Water” establishes that while Deadwood is interested in matters of right and wrong, judgment of those matters is of less concern.
Seitz on Boss, Copper, and Hell on WheelsMuch of modern TV is said to take place in a post-Sopranos universe, but this summer David Milch’s gold-rush Western Deadwood seems just as influential.
