This column contains full [Ed note: like, VERY full] spoilers for Deadwood: The Movie. Early in Deadwood: The Movie, former lovers Seth Bullock and Alma Ellsworth share an awkward reunion at the hotel Seth owns with Sol Star. Their feelings for one another remain intense, but Seth has long since recommitted to his wife Martha, and neither knows quite what to say to the other. As a woman of means, though, Alma has experience making small talk in the most uncomfortable of circumstances, and she sincerely tells him, “You having so lived in recollection, marshal, it is my considerable happiness to see you again.” In its original run, Deadwood didn’t have much use for meta commentary. This movie, though, can’t help but feel self-aware. It’s not just Alma’s line, but the film opening with Calamity Jane saying, “Ten years gone,” or Charlie Utter reacting to Alma and her daughter Sofia’s arrival with, “What a grand surprise after such a piece of time.” It’s Al Swearengen asking Seth, “Where you been, Bullock?” (“Right up the fucking road, Al,” Seth quips.) It’s everyone reflecting on the passage of time — of Al being sick, of Cy Tolliver being dead and gone, of… Read full this story
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