Deadhead on Deadwood: commentary track for Episode 1, Season 1.

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Finally watched the first two episodes of Deadwood (first series) on DVD, and listened to creator/executive producer/writer David Milch's commentary track for the first episode ("Deadwood"). Some stuff in Milch's rather pedestrian commentary that stuck out:

1. Milch cited Marvel Comics as being one of his influences, but didn't elaborate; worse,

Comments

Not gotten into Deadwood

[anonymous]

I've tried watching Deadwood and just feel like I'm missing something. And for a person who digs over the top dialog, Deadwood's dialog overdoes it for even me. I'm not anything close to a historian, but is their langauge at all accurate for the times?
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