Absolutely true about Deadwood (and probably Letterkenny too). Brutal and ugly, but the language was incredible. Also, Al Swearingen becomes a surprisingly interesting and complex character as Season 1 goes on, but that might not make it worth your time to watch. It doesn't get any less ugly as it goes on. Halfway through Season 2 the writing went downhill. Suddenly I couldn't take the gratuitous violence any longer and abruptly stopped watching it. But the language is GRAND.
The fact that I grew up watching the sanitized 50's and 60's versions of the old West made me the perfect audience for this. Oh yeah, right. I'll bet those wild west gunslingers DID say "Cocksucker!" a lot more often than "Goldangit!" And the weird combination of explosive vulgarity and convoluted Victorian sentences? It was the 1870's after all. And the Old West housed a remarkably various collection of people ranging from well-educated to illiterate. We really don't know how people talked back then, but this is probably closer than the 1950's version.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2019-02-22 05:43 pm (UTC)The fact that I grew up watching the sanitized 50's and 60's versions of the old West made me the perfect audience for this. Oh yeah, right. I'll bet those wild west gunslingers DID say "Cocksucker!" a lot more often than "Goldangit!" And the weird combination of explosive vulgarity and convoluted Victorian sentences? It was the 1870's after all. And the Old West housed a remarkably various collection of people ranging from well-educated to illiterate. We really don't know how people talked back then, but this is probably closer than the 1950's version.