He Ain’t Called Swearengen For Nothin’

I’m pretty sure that tonight’s episode of Deadwood set some sort of record for the most times the word “c*cks*cker” was uttered in one single hour of TV. Al Swearengen (a most excellent Ian McShane) is usually the leader of the pack when it comes to that particular term of endearment, but Mr. Wu sure gave him good run in tonight’s episode. Writers on this show must be paid by the swear word. Anyone playing the Deadwood drinking game tonight would have been stone drunk by the thirty-minute mark.