Thanks! I'm enjoying it this first time, and I'm sure it's an even richer series on re-watch.

The trailer for this was fantastic. If the movie can sustain even half the tension of that trailer, then it'll be good.

This is a really great movie, and what I love is that even within the structured narrative, we get such a broad spectrum of humanity on display. The movie never passes judgment on these people because they all need the money and all have valid reasons for needing it, and setting the movie over a weekend is a great way…

OTHER THOUGHTS

DEADWOOD "Bullock Returns to the Camp" Review (1x07)
“He was just trying to live, same as me, and do honor to his friend, and make some fucking sense out of things.”

I did not like this very much. I'm completely fine with a more contemplative finale, but not one that is so meandering and bland like this one is. The show handled the personal side of things well over the last few weeks, bringing it in at very specific points in order to clash with the action in Islamabad–e.g.…

I was hoping to see Virgil again.

"You, on the other hand, are most certainly ugly on the inside and probably on the outside too."

And before The Bridge, she wrote "The Weekend" and "New Car Smell", two of the best episodes of the series. I was not a big fan of this episode, though.

Showtime: Hahaha, that's funny. Look forward to more Homeland in 2020.

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No Deadwood review today. The review (of "Bullock Returns to the Camp") will drop tomorrow, and then I plan to pick up the pace a bit for the rest of season one. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing for those re-watching (naturalcynic, Mistah Chrysoprase—great comment about the visual theme for episode…

Also, I liked the fact that a wire took Noah down.

"You never gave me a chance. You never said, 'I'm different now. I want something else.' You just took it all away."

Homeland and The Affair finales have leaked online. I guess this is a Showtime tradition or something.

I'll leave this here for Franko:

DEADWOOD "Plague" Review (1x06)
“I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”

“You came to a show that — let’s be honest — was a bit of a fixer-upper and it kind of stayed that way. Maybe ‘art’ is a very grand word. What I was trying to do here is to make something that wasn’t here before.”

I was already tearing up at the end of his final Word segment.

Not from the Report, but that Correspondents Dinner. That was an amazing piece of comedy made better by the reactions from the crowd.