| 100 |
New York Post Adam Buckman
Its scripts - always among the finest on TV - are even stronger this time around. |
| 100 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Milch's darkly hilarious exploration of the American frontier spirit is back for a third season of twisted human conniving. |
| 100 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The language, the acting, the themes - everything in "Deadwood" is good as gold. In TV entertainment terms, maybe even better. |
| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
This series is one of a kind. |
| 100 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
To call "Deadwood" great television doesn't begin to do it justice. |
| 100 |
Slant Magazine Keith Uhlich
Milch has a keen eye for his actors' untapped resources--he doesn't so much cast against physical types as he does psychological ones--and this is what makes Deadwood's expansive ensemble so continually exciting to watch. |
| 90 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Every scene teems with an enthralling, fully realized vision of life, the kind of jostling pageant of humanity in the most satisfying works of Dickens or Trollope. |
| 90 |
The New Yorker Nancy Franklin
A gorgeously living thing. |
| 88 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The series returns with its creative six-shooters blazing, its florid language and baroque manner of storytelling still gloriously riveting. |
| 88 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
For all the artificiality of the language, there has seldom been a show that felt more authentic. |
| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Like last season, the plots are thick and quick-flying. (Also like last season, the abstruseness can sometimes feel showy.) |
| 80 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
The circuitous plot is challenging, but the true glory of Deadwood is in its vivid creation of a volatile world where scoundrels, wretches and tormented heroes coexist in an unvarnished time capsule of Wild West history. |
| 80 |
Variety Brian Lowry
"Deadwood" remains a series like none other. |
| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The third season, as much as the two preceding ones, continues to breathe new life and vigor into the Western genre. What's more, the actors have become so comfortable in the skins of their characters, we can now appreciate the complexity of their personalities and desires. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
The dialogue is "Deadwood's" calling card, with its mixture of gutter and Elizabethan grace. It layers Milch's broader, working theme -- the coming-together of various organisms to create a single, functioning one. |
| 80 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
[A] fascinating, challenging series. |
| 80 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
As it lurches to its conclusion, the politics of "Deadwood" keep growing more dense and colorful, and that magnificent obsession crowds out other primal forces. |
| 70 |
New York Magazine John Leonard
What makes Deadwood so fascinating is not the action we put up with; it’s the language we listen to. |
| 70 |
Time James Poniewozik
It's worth hopping on this poetic, profane story of frontier money lust before it rides into the sunset. |
| 40 |
Newsday Verne Gay
Yes, "Deadwood" was incomprehensible last season. It is incomprehensible this season. Fans will be delighted. |
