The world according to Al Swearengen

One of DEADWOOD's finest moments. Words to live by from Al Swearengen.

Welcome to #@*#%!! "Deadweek"

As DEADWOOD begins its third - and unfortunately final season - you can visit Matt Zoller Seitz's blog "The House Next Door," to read a variety of different writers (including Matt and his fellow Star-Ledger television critic Alan Sepinwall) waxing philosophical on all things DEADWOOD. I've contributed a character portrait of half-smart Yankton bagman Silas Adams (played by Titus Welliver, above), who I find to be one of the show's most interesting secondary characters. Matt - who's a talented independent filmmaker as well as a critic - has gone on record citing DEADWOOD as the greatest dramatic series in the history of television. He might be right.