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Fans of ''NYPD Blue'' cocreator David Milch should be pleased to know his new HBO drama is just like his old one on ABC: It has plenty of violence, expletives, and pistol-packing perps. What's missing, however, are the mean streets of New York City; they've been replaced by the dirt roads of South Dakota. Hold on to your hats, boys -- Milch's done rustled up a Western! ''After Sept. 11, I felt like it would be very hard to do a contemporary series in my areas of interest, [because it] would stand the risk of being overtaken by the events of the day. The deepest storytelling does not have to correspond to external verifiable reality.'' Using true-life characters like Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) and Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert), Milch tells the story of Deadwood, a 19th-century settlement rich with gold and fortune seekers. Despite the absence of badges, Milch insists that ''Deadwood'' (which also stars Powers Boothe and ''Sexy Beast'''s Ian McShane as rival saloon owners) is similar to ''NYPD Blue.'' ''The question in that drama was often, How do you break the law in order to pursue justice? 'Deadwood' pushes even harder at those boundaries. We'll examine how people behave when there is no law.'' |
I am still waiting for the advent of the computer science groupie.
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