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Before we start this insane attempt to blog all of Deadwood over the course of one summer, I thought it best to make room for some general introductions to the course work, as it were. There will be a couple of very mild spoilers (all dealing with character arcs), so if you want to go about the series unspoiled, you may want to skip to the section marked “Episode 1.

Deadwood.”

Deadwood is my favorite television series of all time, despite the fact that because of a dispute between HBO and Paramount, the studio that produced the show, it pretty much just ends, never reaching the closure that series with similar qualities managed to get (chief among them The Sopranos and The Wire).

Saying Deadwood is your favorite series of all time seems a bit of a joke now that the rest of the world seems to have pretty much settled on The Wire for that title, but I think Deadwood does a large number of things better than any other series.

While I’ll return to these