Deadwood

When working throught the piles on my desk, I ran across Mark Singer's article about Deadwood creator David Milch (of NYPD Blue fame) in the February 14-21 issue of the New Yorker: "The Misfit: How David Milch got from 'NYPD Blue' to 'Deadwood' by way of an Epistle of St. Paul."  The show is about Dakota Territory in 1877.  Article excerpt:

The central premise of "Deadwood" is that a populace of exiles--wily misfits, dim-witted misfits, bloody-minded opportunists, gamblers with nothing to lose, abused abusers--have gathered in a gold-mining settlement where trustworthiness and love are the rarest of commodities.  Inexorably, they must curb some of their tendencies toward anarchy and savagery and embrace certain rudiments of civilized society; otherwise they will destroy themselves (or, almost as dire a prospect, be subjugated by the federal government). 

Several readers are fans of the show and send in comments from time to time.  Someone in Spain also asked me about the show, so it's getting some traction.  What's funny is that we don't hear more about it in SD.