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- 1. Deadwood Mar 21, 2004
- Marshal Seth Bullock relocates to a gold-mining camp and crosses paths with Wild Bill Hickok.
- 2. Deep Water Mar 28, 2004
- Swearengen takes an interest in the survivor; Brom's wife self-medicates.
- 3. Reconnoitering the Rim Apr 4, 2004
- Competition arrives; Hickok puts up collateral in a poker game; Bullock and Star strike a deal.
Deadwood: Created by David Milch. With Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Brad Dourif. A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.
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Deadwood is an American Western television series that aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006. The series is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area's annexation by the Dakota Territory, and charts Deadwood's growth from camp to town. The show was created, produced, and ...
AssociationYear [a]CategoryNominee (s)2006Stephen Mark (for "A Lie Agreed Upon ...2007Best Edited One-Hour Series for ...Stephen Mark (for "Tell Your God to Ready ...Maria Caso, James J. Murakami, David ...Excellence in Production Design for ...Maria Caso, David Potts, Michael J.In Deadwood: The Movie, Sofia and Alma return to Deadwood after many years away to attend the statehood celebrations, during which she meets and befriends fellow passenger Caroline Woolgarden, who later finds work at the Gem Saloon.
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"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."
―Al Swearengen
Early life
"Now I'll tell you something you don't know. Before she ran the girls' orphanage, fat Mrs. Fucking Anderson ran the boys' orphanage on fucking Euclid Avenue. As I would see her fat ass waddling out the boys' dormitory at five o'clock in the fucking morning, every fucking morning, after she blew her stupid fucking cowbell and woke us all the fuck up. And my fucking mother dropped me the fuck off there with seven dollars and sixty-some odd fucking cents on her way to sucking cock in Georgia. And I didn't get to count the fucking cents before the fucking door opened, and there: Mrs Fat-Ass Fucking Anderson who sold you to me. I had to give her seven dollars and sixty-odd fucking cents that my mother shoved in my fucking hand before she hammered one, two, three, four times on the fucking door and scurried off down fucking Euclid Avenue, probably thirty fucking years before you were fucking born." ―Al Swearengen to Dolly Al Swearengen came from an English family, and it was rumored that he descended from British nobility; either way, he and his mother would find themselves in Chicago. There, he was dumped outside an orphanage on Euclid Avenue with nothing but $7.60 by his mother who was "on her way to sucking cock in Georgia". The orphanage was run by matron Mrs. Anderson, a figure he would look back on with hatred in his later life, where he was beaten and abused; he would never forget waking up at five in the morning to hearing "fat Mrs. Anderson" ringing her bell. Brutal life in the orphanage helped shape Al into the cruel, hard-hearted man he would become, leaving in his mind a miserable, almost cynical view of the world around him: an unforgiving world that didn't care about him, and in which he would have to kill and back-stab whoever necessary to protect himself - because who else would? Mrs. Anderson also ran the adjoining brothel next door to the orphanage, allowing Al both to be acquainted early on with that lifestyle and to become comfortable with the idea of prostitution. At some point he was taken in by a surrogate family, but life became no easier for Al. His adoptive brother suffered from seizures, which deeply affected his "father" who took out his sorrow on Al in the form of rough beatings he would never forget - as an adult, he would reflect that he'd have been better off at the orphanage had Mrs. Anderson not been a pimp. One of the harshest beatings he suffered was after his brother's funeral following his death likely due to his disease, during which Al was horribly smacked around and claimed to have had a headache for three weeks as a result. When leaving Chicago, Al returned to Mrs. Anderson's place, now a girl's orphanage and still attached to the brothel, and bought the whore Dolly with whom he boarded a wagon for Laramie without looking back.
Al Swearengen was played by Ian McShane in all three seasons of Deadwood, appearing in every episode. McShane won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama and a TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for his role on the show, and furthermore was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Satellite Award, a TCA and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
McShane reprised his role in Deadwood: The Movie, which he also executive produced alongside Timothy Olyphant who played Seth Bullock.
Season 1
•"Deadwood" (First appearance) •"Deep Water" •"Reconnoitering the Rim" •"Here Was a Man" •"The Trial of Jack McCall" •"Plague" •"Bullock Returns to the Camp" •"Suffer the Little Children" •"No Other Sons or Daughters" •"Mister Wu" •"Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking" •"Sold Under Sin"
Season 2
•"A Lie Agreed Upon: Part I" •"A Lie Agreed Upon: Part II" •"New Money" •"Requiem for a Gleet" •"Complications" •"Something Very Expensive" •"E.B. Was Left Out" •"Childish Things" •"Amalgamation and Capital" •"Advances, None Miraculous" •"The Whores Can Come" •"Boy-the-Earth-Talks-To"
Season 3
•"Tell Your God to Ready for Blood" •"I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For" •"True Colors" •"Full Faith and Credit" •"A Two-Headed Beast" •"A Rich Find" •"Unauthorized Cinnamon" •"Leviathan Smiles" •"Amateur Night" •"A Constant Throb" •"The Catbird Seat" •"Tell Him Something Pretty"
1.Ian McShane on IMDb
3.Season 1 Episode 12 "Sold Under Sin"
4.Season 1 Episode 1 "Deadwood"
5.Ian McShane on Wikipedia
Jul 18, 2021 · The real-life Swearengen was, like his fictional counterpart, the owner of the Gem saloon and brothel in Deadwood. That said, series creator David Milch and the other writers made several changes to the historic figure to make him a more compelling and sympathetic character.
Sep 2, 2024 · Starring Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane as sheriff Seth Bullock and saloon-owner Al Swearengen, two real figures in Deadwood's origin story, it was also populated by some of the Wild West's most enduring icons like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
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Oct 4, 2016 · Why so many people think Deadwood doesn’t deserve a spot in the TV pantheon — and why they’re wrong. Seth Bullock is always ready for a fight. HBO. At the heart of most detractors ...
