S01.E03: Reconnoitering the Rim

[FormerMod-a1]

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Competition arrives for Swearengen in the form of the Bella Union, a new gambling outfit from Chicago operated by savvy Cy Tolliver, Madame Joanie Stubbs and gaming guru Eddie Sawyer. Hickok puts up precious collateral in a poker game with McCall; Bullock and Star strike a deal with Swearengen on a lot for their store and, with help from Hickok and Utter, set to building; Brom threatens Swearengen with The Pinkertons before he and Dan Dority are dispatched to reconnoiter his claim.

[formerlyfreedom]

So happy to see Powers Boothe again (I'm pretty much a sucker for anything Powers Boothe. Guys. He gives an AWESOME Jim Jones!).

I have to say - Joanie is pretty impressive ("Oh, I speak French."). I'm liking her. And Jane and her devotion to that kid...it makes my auntie heart melt.

[MuuMuuChainsmoker]

Poor, naive, foppish Brom.  Never go with Dan Dority to a second location.  

My heart was melting at Charlie trying to set up a play date for Wild Bill and Bullock.  

[walnutqueen]

Brom was an idiot.  The End.

Charlie is such a caretaker.

[Guest]

The Bella Union crew is in the house!  I also love the fact that compared to Wild Bill, Bullock has people skills.

[MuuMuuChainsmoker]

2 hours ago, CuriousParker said:

 I also love the fact that compared to Wild Bill, Bullock has people skills.

Ha! You'd think that it would be hard to be pricklier than Bullock, but then up steps both Wild Bill *and* Jane. 

[halgia]

Laughed a lot at Dan finding the gold: such a good unexpected shift. The furtive looks in the "who cut the cheese" scene, and Hickock saying "quite": also pretty funny.

Basically the one thing I know about Deadwood is that

there's some eye-gouging

, which made me real worried about that one rando who turned on Bill — but don't tell me if that's right or not. :)

[Drogo]

Here lies Brom... he perfected his argument, at the bottom of the ravine.

My condolences to the ladies in the audience who only have one dreamy Timothy O. left.

[egavasc]

I don't collude and I don't cahoot. Oh man, I kinda love Al. 

[purist]

On 27/06/2016 at 6:22 AM, egavasc said:

I don't collude and I don't cahoot. Oh man, I kinda love Al. 

It's easy to forget, in amongst all his evildoing and cruelty, that Al is often screamingly funny.

What a pushover E.B. Farnum is. I guess Al let him live because he's more useful alive than dead.

[purist]

Some stray observations and questions:

• Is this the first time we hear the word 'hoopleheads'? (from Al, when he first meets Cy)
• What kind of 'dope' is Al paying the Bella Union's faro dealer with? Heroin?
• When the drunk man in the street said he hoped Wild Bill would get what was coming to him, and he hoped he would get it in Deadwood, Wild Bill looked like someone had just walked over his grave. A bit of foreshadowing, maybe?
• The cutting between the scene of Al leaning on E.B. to confess and the scene of Dan preparing to throw Brom off the rim, with the accompanying 'doom-y' music, was fantastic, and made that section of the episode incredibly tense.
• Did Brom whimper 'Mother' before Dan threw him off? Poor pathetic dude.
• Did Trixie overhear what Dan told Al about the dead dude and the gold Dan found?