Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane in"Deadwood: The Movie." Both actors went on to many roles after the original"Deadwood" series went off the air.
“Deadwood: The Movie” reunites many of the debauched, haunted and brutally eloquent Gold Rush pioneers lucky enough to have survived the original HBO series without having been shot, beaten or stabbed to death. Canceled after three seasons in 2006, the existential western earned 28 Emmy nominations, with eight wins.
Milch’s HBO film, which premiered last week, catches up 10 years later with the denizens of Deadwood, beginning with the mining camp's ferociously eloquent kingpin Al Swearingen, portrayed by British actor Ian McShane. A revelation to most American TV viewers when he first appeared in “Deadwood,” McShane anchored an ensemble that included such veteran character actors as Gerald McRaney, Brian Cox, Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe.
Like many HBO's best shows (e.g., 'Westworld'), Season 1 of 'Deadwood' is amazing but...the following seasons? Not so much. I highly recommend 'Rome' if you haven't seen it.