I know I'm a Deadwood junkie

My rewatch of season 2 is over now.

I think I will wait for a rewatch of season 3 until June so maybe if Alan Sepinwall resumes his Deadwood Rewind posts, I can join the fun. I missed it this summer when he was rewatching and reviewing season 2. Jim Beaver and the actor who plays Mr Wu left several comments worth reading, and Beaver sounded up for a third round!

Reading those entries I just realised something about "A Lie Agreed Upon" Part 2. Yes it's true that Alma's red dress calls to the mind the scarlett letter given its colour and the adulterous affair Seth was having with her, but in my case – and it's probably because I rewatched Gone With the Wind on Christmas Day! –, Alma's red dress as she's paying a visit to Mrs Bullock in the hardware store reminds me of Scarlett O'Hara's fantastic red dress that Rhett made her wear at the party Melany had thrown for Ashley's birthday. The dresses are very different, colour aside, but I do think that Alma shares Scarlett's guts (and some of her weaknesses like her fondness for get-away drugs, in Scarlett's case it was spirits, in Alma's laudanaum). *

Of course Alma is a Northern lady not a Southern girl, and Seth is guilty as charged while Ashley didn't cheat on his wife, and Martha Bullock is much more aware of things than Melany ever was...just like she noticed how William was checking the whores' breasts in the coach!

I wonder whether Milch thought of that or if it's only visual works talking to each other...or my brain doing its usual connecting things.

* But no I won't say that Mr Ellsworth was a new Franck Kennedy for Ellsworth is a much more touching character. Yet...