Let me start this review off with a rant HBO have got to be smoking thier socks by not commiting to the deadwood story until the story was told.Deadwood has got to be easliy the best TV series of the past 10 years and concidering that it has gone up agianst shows like Californication, Entourage, House etc that is saying a lot.Set against the backdrop of the mining town "Deadwood". The story pulls no punches and in no way seeks to glorify the west instead paints a rather bleak though acurate picture of what life must have been for settlers in frontier towns. The cast do a great job of getting into their characters minds but none as good as Ian Mcshane who puts in one stelar performance after another. Deadwood is a definate must see.