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Profanity usage was explained by Milch

Milch has explained in interviews why the series used anachronistic vulgarity that was not common in the 1880s. Blasphemy was usually the worst kind of profanity at the time, but it sound very quaint if not silly to modern ears. Milch referenced Yosemite Sam. So while it would been authentic, it would have been like a parody. He wanted the audience to understand just how rude and vulgar these people were considered by "polite society" at the time. I heard this in a NPR interview, maybe someone can track down a transcript.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8000:7800:9F15:BC76:F540:F3AF:AC09 (talk) 21:27, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Filming locations?

Where was it filmed? 2600:1702:1ED0:1120:BD65:48CF:E2A4:B2F3 (talk) 00:30, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

They were headquartered at the Melody Ranch in Santa Clarita, but used various other locations in that area including Sable Ranch (which just sold for $400M yesterday) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8000:7800:9F15:BC76:F540:F3AF:AC09 (talk) 21:22, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cancelation

This article needs to cover the cancelation and the given reasons for it. This happening is mysterious given the ratings and award-winning rate of the show, and readers are often going to be looking for this information in particular. I think it extremely unlikely that various sources have not covered this subject in considerable detail by now. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 09:34, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No mystery and it was widely reported: it did not have the ratings for a show that was very expensive to produce. At the same time, HBO had sunk something like $100M into making the first season of Rome (which ironically is why Deadwood exists at all) because they had to construct all the sets from scratch to look authentic. Which 20 years ago was huge amount of money for a 12 episode TV show. Because of this, Chris Albrecht called David Milch up to see if he could make season 4 - which was supposed to be the final season to begin with, covering the history of the Deadwood fire and rebuiding - with fewer episodes. There is some disagreement over how many shows Albrecht suggested, either six (per Milch) or eight (per Dayton Callie & Albrecht), but Milch got pissed off, said "How about none" then almost IMMEDIATELY went to Timothy Olyphant's trailer to tell him they were cancelled. Milch knew that Olyphant was about to make an offer on a house Olyphant needed another season to pay for. It would have taken you 15 seconds on Google to find that article that is 2 years old. I don't know who Jeremy Fassler is, but Matt Zoller Seitz writes essays for Criterion Collection discs so about as legitimate as they come. https://www.vulture.com/article/deadwood-hbo-cancellation-what-happened-david-milch.html