Deadwood - The Complete First Season

The HBO series Deadwood is an excellent series. I ordered this first season set through Amazon, but from a Ricky Chan site. It turned out to be a bootlegged copy and I was very disappointed in the quality of the packaging(mostly in Chinese) and the copies of the discs (there were missing special features, etc) I would not have purchased it if I had known it was bootlegged. Beware of the Ricky Chan site!

If you can stand the language (as this is how it really was) this series is like an old friend. I hated to see it come to a close. One of my all time favorites. NOT FOR KIDS!

This was a gift for my husband. He loves it as a raw western. Not a family viewing movie.

My husband watched this series first on HBO and loved it.Since purchasing the 3 seasons, he has spent countless hours watching it.This isn't a show for children/young teens,it has very explict language and can be hard to follow with the way they speak.If you get past the language, then it does have a very good story line. Either you will love this series or you won't.The harsh language is the key point to remember.

I overheard someone at work mention 'Deadwood' being a true portrayal of what the Old West was really like. I thought to myself, 'cool! something down and dirty with lots of gratuitous blood letting and gunplay'

After watching 5 minutes of it, I had to change channels. I love profanity in movies as much as the next crass American guy but when it's used in such a retarded context, it just ruins the whole thing. And by the way, this is supposed to be in the 1800s!! It's not realistic at all to have our ancestors of old sound like they were on an N.W.A. album. I like N.W.A. but Cowboys who belt out 'F$@#' words in an Old west series is just as bad as Ned Flanders trying to act like Ice Cube.

And as some other reviewer noticed, all of the characters looked like they just walked out of a beauty spa; moussed up hair, Aquafresh perfect teeth, and spotless clothing. Hair products, frequent bathing, and a good dental plan were rare commodoties in the Old West folks!

Sorry, this was not realistic at all for me. I could care less how good the story was going to get.

You want realistic swearing in the old West, then check out Tuco from the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. That's a REAL western movie!!