David Milch’s Western series, a once-in-a-generation event, ran on HBO for three seasons. Like the cable channel’s other prize-winning project, The Sopranos, Deadwood took great chances and broke boundaries, twisting genre conventions into new shapes, but without satire or malice. In a hypothetical room full of Westerns buffs, you would find as many passionate fans of Deadwood as there are angry detractors.


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