- #WHY DOES AL KILL JEN ON DEADWOOD SEASON 3 MOVIE#
- #WHY DOES AL KILL JEN ON DEADWOOD SEASON 3 SERIES#
- #WHY DOES AL KILL JEN ON DEADWOOD SEASON 3 TV#
Hearst’s telephone poles are coming, and nothing Al or Seth can do will stop the future from arriving. Deadwood can’t keep creating itself, dancing around in the liminal space between nothingness and officially recognized statehood. Age, change, the knowledge that endings will happen no matter how hard we fight them but will only ever be one part of a bigger story - those ideas become the movie’s foundation. Rather than something to deny or skate over, time becomes the central theme.
#WHY DOES AL KILL JEN ON DEADWOOD SEASON 3 MOVIE#
It needs to pull things together rather than stretch them farther apart, and Deadwood: The Movie pulls that off by leaning into the problem.
#WHY DOES AL KILL JEN ON DEADWOOD SEASON 3 TV#
Something deep in Deadwood’s TV DNA has to fight against its own strongest impulses when it’s translated to movie form. But this movie is a last, unforeseen, improbable chance for Deadwood, for reasons both inside and outside the story. Rims reconnoitered, producing more gold than expected. Deaths that somehow started more stories than they ended.
#WHY DOES AL KILL JEN ON DEADWOOD SEASON 3 SERIES#
It was a series about a place making itself out of nothing, and the show’s storytelling mirrored that idea by constantly pushing toward breadth and expansion. Mostly, it has to do something Deadwood always fought against as a show: The movie has to be some kind of an ending.Īs much as swearing and violence and the inimitable Al Swearengen, Deadwood as a series was defined by how stubbornly it refused to rely on neat conclusions. It has to pull us back to the point where Deadwood left off, without feeling cutesy or nostalgic. It must go back to more than a dozen characters, all with their own abruptly abandoned arcs, and touch on where they’ve been and where they might be going. It has to return to a show that was gone, resurrecting a dead thing and bringing it back to life without making the whole exercise feel gruesome or tragic. The task of this Deadwood movie is essentially impossible. The question now is how much of the old Deadwood, how much of our Deadwood, can possibly survive what comes next. In many ways it’s finally the beginning for this town, at last officially recognized as part of the United States and established within the fold of authority and the rule of law. It’s 1889, and Deadwood is officially part of the state of South Dakota, a quick answer to the question that plagued much of Deadwood’s three-season run. Calling it a camp at this point is pure nostalgia because Deadwood is now certainly a town. It has grown significantly in her - and our - absence. Now, more than a decade later, she does it again, stopping at the top of an outcropping and looking down on what Deadwood has become. Thirteen years ago in the world of Deadwood (and 15 years ago in our world), Calamity Jane first rode over the pass and paused at the top of a ridge to look out over the Deadwood camp.
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