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Deadwood

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organize

(30 total)

Seasons

Season 1 (10)Season 2 (7)Season 3 (13)

Characters

Al Swearengen (10)Ian McShane (10)David Milch (9)Ted Mann (5)Elizabeth Sarnoff (4)Malcolm MacRury (3)Jody Worth (3)Keith Carradine (3)Calamity Jane (3)Robin Weigert (3)

“Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.”

— W. Earl Brown, Hearst, Gerald McRaney, imdb.com

Tagged: elections, Will Power

“Take them amateurs off the fucking sugar tit. Mr. Hearst brought the pros to town.”

— Kem Nunn, Cy Tolliver, Powers Boothe, imdb.com

Tagged: pinkerton guards, sugar tit, amateurs

“Blazanov: Fuck confidentiality of communication. Al Swearengen: Why not fuck a woman instead? Blazanov: Hope to, eventually.”

— Mark Tinker, Al Swearengen, Ian McShane, imdb.com

Tagged: Fuck, Communication, Confidentiality

“Samuel Fields: Ain't meanin' to be here long, ain't looking to drink. All's I'm here for, Steve, is to talk to this here gentleman. Steve: Go ahead and do somersaults or peel bananas with each other for all I give a fuck. Whole place has gone to shit anyhow.”

— Alix Lambert, Samuel Fields, Franklyn Ajaye, imdb.com

Tagged: Drinking, peel bananas, gone to shit

“The man I once was, Al, was not formidable, and I am but his shadow now. And yet I'd be put to use. A decoy, perhaps. A weight to drop on villains from above.”

— Bernadette McNamara, Jack Langrishe, Brian Cox, imdb.com

Tagged: formidable, Villains, decoy

“It's the learning fuckin' nothin', Al, that keeps me young.”

— Regina Corrado, Ted Mann, David Milch, Jack Langrishe, Brian Cox, imdb.com

Tagged: learning nothing, staying young

“Johnny: If it's gettin' to go wrong, Dan, you just drop flat. Dan: What the fuck did you just say? Johnny: Drop flat if it's going wrong, and I'll blow his fucking head off. Dan: You do and it'll be the last goddamn thing you do on this fucking earth. Going wrong is not the end of fucking things, Jo…”

— David Milch, Dan Dority, W. Earl Brown, imdb.com

Tagged: Threats, Shit

“This place displeases me. I'm taking measures to bring it down.”

— Alix Lambert, Hearst, Gerald McRaney, imdb.com

Tagged: displeased

“E.B. Farnham: It's Hearst. Hearst: is he Caesar, to have fights to the death for diversion? Murder his workers at whim? Smash passages in the fucking wall? A man of less wealth would be in fucking restraints. Al Swearingen: We're in the presence of the new. E.B.: Fuck the fucking new! Jesus Christ,…”

— Alix Lambert, Al Swearengen, Ian McShane, imdb.com

Tagged: Hearst, caesar, Jesus Christ

“Puberty may bring you to understand what we take for mother-love is really murderous hatred and a desire for revenge.”

— Ted Mann, David Milch, E.B. Farnum, William Sanderson, imdb.com

Tagged: Puberty, mother love, Revenge, Hatred

“Doc Cochran: You must drink this. Alma Ellsworth: I will not awaken that demon, Doctor. Doc Cochran: This has nothing to do with demons, Mrs. Ellsworth. This has to do with allaying the pain to get you through. Leave the demons to God and trust the pain to me.”

— Ted Mann, David Milch, Doc Cochran, Brad Dourif, imdb.com

Tagged: Pain, Medicine, Demons, God

“Dan: I'm older, and I'm much less friendly to fuckin' change. Al Swearengen: Change ain't lookin' for friends. Change calls the tune we dance to.”

— Ted Mann, David Milch, Al Swearengen, Ian McShane, imdb.com

Tagged: Change, Fate, older

“I've wished sometimes only to play checkers or to occupy myself some other way than having to see and feel so much sadness, or feel every moment how difficult things are, to understand or to live with. I've sometimes felt I couldn't live with them, but I find I can, Sofia. I've found I am, even when…”

— Bryan McDonald, David Milch, Alma Garrett, Molly Parker, imdb.com

Tagged: Pain, Sadness, Happiness

“They're hypocrite cocksuckers. And the fuckin' lyin' instruments and tactics they use to fuck people up the ass can be turned against them.”

— Elizabeth Sarnoff, Al Swearengen, Ian McShane, imdb.com

Tagged: Hypocrisy, Cocksucker, Anal Sex

“Every day takes figuring out all over again how to fucking live.”

— Ted Mann, David Milch, Calamity Jane, Robin Weigert, imdb.com

Tagged: Wisdom

“You, Al, are an object lesson in the healing powers of obstinacy and a hostile disposition.”

— Steve Shill, Doc Cochran, Brad Dourif, imdb.com

Tagged: hostile, healing powers, obstinacy

“Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man—and give some back.”

— Jody Worth, Al Swearengen, Ian McShane, imdb.com

Tagged: Pain, Damage, Beatings, punishment

“Doc Cochran: Jane, for me, the female breast long ago lost mystery or allure. Open your goddamn blouse. Calamity Jane: I'll keep my fucking eyes shut, but I'll know every fucking move you make.”

— Jody Worth, Calamity Jane, Robin Weigert, imdb.com

Tagged: breasts

“Al: [after waking up from his 'coma'] Did you fuck me when I was out? Dan: Hell, no. Al: Then quit looking at me like that.”

— Victoria Morrow, Al Swearengen, Ian McShane, imdb.com

Tagged: Coma, Waking Up, morning hair

“E.B. Farnum: Some ancient Italian maxim fits our situation, whose particulars escape me. Francis Wolcott: Is the gist that I'm shit outta luck? E.B. Farnum: Did they speak that way then?”

— Elizabeth Sarnoff, E.B. Farnum, William Sanderson, imdb.com

Tagged: shit outta luck, italian, maxim