
Deadwood · Season 2 · HBO
Deadwood Season 2
Deadwood Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.3/10. 12 episodes on HBO from 6 March 2005.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 2 arrived in 2005 to a Metacritic score of 93 and 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, marking the point where critics stopped hedging. The introduction of George Hearst's mining interests added a new axis of civilizational conflict: Deadwood's bootstrap community against the forces of capital accumulation arriving from outside. McShane's Swearengen - simultaneously the camp's most self-interested and most civic actor - reached full complexity here. The writing's faux-Elizabethan rhythms and the performances' physical specificity earned the Newark Star-Ledger's Alan Sepinwall's 'fire-breathing work of art' summation. Season 2 is where Deadwood confirmed itself among the small group of television dramas operating at the ceiling of the medium.
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Season Over Season
The introduction of George Hearst elevates Season 2 from a character study of a lawless camp into a drama about the inevitable arrival of monopoly capital - the series' themes crystallise.