Tell Him Something Pretty

I just now finished watching the entire series again, as I tend to do every few years. And as my years and experience pile on, I understand and appreciate the series with greater depth with each additional viewing.

The feeling the end of this episode gave me is of a throbbing phantom limb, like a hand that expects to have a full set of five digits, and longs for the ones missing, yet was never able to gain the complete five, and was left with just three.

Some may say they feel Season 3 was the weakest portion of the show as a whole, and maybe overall that may be true, because Season 3 does feel like Act 1 of a 3 act movie. Much in the way as the end of this episode shows Hearst leaving camp, with a cliff hanger and a lot of unfinished threads, you can imagine a similar dissatisfaction if Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings ended on Frodo & Sam leaving, with a similar cliff-hanger sense of anticipation for what is yet to come, and then finding out the trilogy had been cancelled.

The Deadwood movie that came out many years later by no means delivers any sense of fulfilment or satisfaction, and I would love it if the series were simply given a green light to deliver us another two seasons of 12 episodes per season, made in exactly the same way as the original.

Sadly these days, utter garbage media is perpetuated, while genuine gold continues to elude us entirely.

I just watched this series again after 10'years from the first time. Picked up a lot more than previous but did HBO cancel this prior to actually telling the producers cause it was left off sooooo badly and open for a continuation that never came (although I have now realised there is a tv movie Inwill have to watch now) I admit that during the dialogue it was annoying how they skipped around a subject (especially that awful man E B Farnum) but I understand it was done well as that was how it was done back then.

Thank (whoever) that I as a female was born in the 1960's and not the 1700/1800's my god those poor woman and conditions. I know they knew no different but what a hard life it would have been.

The series started off great. Weaving reality into the story line as with Wild Bill Hickok's character made the show compelling. All of the characters played their unique roles perfectly. The writing is brilliant, playing unexpected subtleties against each other. Couldn't wait to see what happened with this last episode. But then ...

How could HBO stop this show when it did? The expense of running the show doesn't justify cutting it off at the kneecaps, leaving the audience frustrated and depressed.

To the HBO executive who made the call to cancel the show before completing the story, you and George Hearst are of the same ilk.

I absolutely love this show and cannot believe that HBO is stupid enough to let this one go!! I agree that this show and Soprano's are the only reason I let Comcast bend me over for HBO. And honestly, the Soprano's has been a train wreck for the past few seasons. i read that HBO offered Milch half a season to finish the show and he said no. it wouldn't be enough to wrap up the loose ends. What i am curious about is how two two-hour movies(4 hours) is any better of an ending than half a season? i have been waiting for 7 months to find out when HBO will announce the season 4 premier and i have to find out through IMDb blogs that it isn't coming back?! Surely they don't think that people keep their subscription just to watch City of Angels (or any other movie HBO gets their hands on) 22 times in 2 weeks. I just checked, right now they are abusing us with The Siege...thanks HBO, it was nice having you around, I'll be switching to Showtime now for Dexter.

Most anti climatic episode in history... gave it a one for sheer frustration of the pathetic ending!!!