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Title image for the HBO series Deadwood, showing the show's name in worn lettering over a frontier street.

Deadwood Is a Play About How Speech Builds a Town

Deadwood's profanity gets the attention. Its structure is the more radical thing: a camp that becomes a polity because people keep talking their way into agreements.

Priya Nair·25 Oct·5 min

A mountain ridge at dusk, a single horseman silhouetted on a crest, snow on the pines.

American Primeval: Peter Berg's Utah and the Cost of a Six-Episode Western

Peter Berg and Mark L. Smith's six-episode Netflix limited western compresses a brutal 1857 Utah into ninety minutes per episode, and the compression is both the method and the mistake.

Marcus Vell·9 Oct·7 min