WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The year is 1889 and everything is up to date in Deadwood, which is now in the brand-new state of South Dakota. There's a train that runs through town, which is even reached by something called a telephone. Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) still runs the Gem saloon and Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens) its competition, Bella Union. (Powers Boothe _ who played Cy Tolliver, former proprietor _ died in 2017.) Seth (Timothy Olyphant) and Martha Bullock (Anna Gunn) are parents to three children. Alma Ellsworth (Molly Parker) has a stake in the Deadwood Bank. Sol Star (John Hawkes) and Trixie (Paula Malcomson) remain very much together and E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson) remains almost-mayor. Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif) is still plugging holes left by the wayward bullet.
Meanwhile, a pair of colorful former residents have returned _ Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) and George Hearst (Gerald McRaney), who was last seen in these parts demanding Trixie's murder because she had attempted to kill him. He is now a junior U.S. senator from California and has business in town.
This movie _ which closes out the classic series (2004-06) about a murderous saloonkeeper and the upright lawman, Seth Bullock, he eventually befriends _ was written by David Milch, creator of the original.
