

This is a sitcom gag in essence: You can imagine The Big Bang Theory version, which would involve Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, and a protractor. and walks out, relocking the door behind him. He picks it up, makes a world-class Ah, here’s the specific reason I came in here face- HBO I just stopped in a moment.” There is a goofy-looking, 1870s-type clamp thingy on the counter. “Seth, you remember Trixie,” Star mumbles, having wiggled about to make himself decent and minimize the embarrassment. This grudging transformation is nearly complete by the 11th and penultimate episode of Season 1, in which, as aforementioned, he walks into his hardware store and finds his partner, the noble Sol Star (John Hawkes), in a lovelorn and compromised state with an even more exasperated prostitute named Trixie (Paula Malcomson).īullock realizes his error as he’s taking off his hat. It is nonetheless obvious, to everyone, that he is destined to be Deadwood’s sheriff.

Bullock doesn’t want to be Deadwood’s sheriff. He is therefore one of the two nominal leads in Deadwood, which ran for three seasons on HBO from 2004 to 2006, takes place in the titular 1870s South Dakota mining town (in that lawless interval before South Dakota joined the Union), and has little use for conventional Western heroes. By design, most of the show’s best moments are.īullock, as played by Timothy Olyphant, is a conventional Western hero, handsome and rangy and stern and exasperatedly valiant. It is far too minor an incident to ever make a janky YouTube highlight reel. Me, I fire up HBO Go once a month or so to watch Seth Bullock unwittingly interrupt his business partner having sex in their hardware store. We proud members of the Deadwood hive-we patrons of the Gem Saloon, we Hoopleheads, we -each have our own most cherished character, cherished scene, cherished soliloquy, cherished expletive.
