deadwood

Speaking of things that Steve likes that I don't prefer ...

We relatively frequently watch netflix movies with our neighbors and friends Mike and Wendy. Recently, we watched one episode of Rome, the HBO series about life during the reign of Caesar and Co. They suggested that we might also like Deadwood, because it was done by the same producers.

It should have been a clue that Rome was rather violent with a fairly complex storyline (they kept stopping to explain who was who, what the backstory was, and why it was relevant), not to mention that it was hard to tell the characters apart.

But I agreed to try Deadwood. Steve loved it. I hated it and surfed thru the second episode. But Steve wants to watch them all. So we increased our netflix from 2 to 3 movies so we could at least watch something else. I had hoped he would do a marathon watching while I was gone but the veteran's day postal holiday kind of made it difficult.

I have occasionally watched it (or rather sat on the couch surfing while Steve watches) and continue to hate it. Part of it is because it's a western and I very rarely like shows of that genre. Part of it is because most of the characters have a rather staged and stilted manner of talking, mostly sprinkled with every third word of "f-ing" something. It's also violent in a pretty graphic way. Last night's episode involved a complicated backcountry surgery to rid someone of gallstones. I think I prefer the clean sanitized version of ER. It made me almost sick just to listen to it.

Steve is watching again now so I'm headed upstairs to read in bed.