After the Custer Massacre, crimes and murders raise in the gold mining town “Deadwood” which lies south Dakota. In order to get rid of crimes and bad people like Al Swearengen, hotel operator and saloon owner, Seth bullock, Bill Hickok and ex-lawman are three gentlemen make a unit to save the town of corruption. They are considered as legendary heroes to people.
Deadwood is about a great many things, but one of the things I think it doesn't get enough credit for is just how much it is a series about kindness, about the ways that we can be good to each other and treat each other well.
It sets new standards for the Western drama and brings to life an era of American history that, seen for what it actually was, is all the more extraordinary.
Milch, the man who gave NYPD Blue its most pungent police dialogue, has come up with a horse opera that makes the West wilder than you've ever seen it, while retelling tales of legends like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
HBO's extraordinary new Western, Deadwood, is not your father's horse opera and that it stands proudly beside the bleak, unromanticized likes of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove.