Deadwood fans, your long wait is over. Writer David Milch’s acclaimed Western, which was cancelled on a cliffhanger 12 years ago, is returning with a TV movie (airs Mon., Jun. 3 at 8.30pm; Fox Showcase). Led by Ian McShane, as ruthless bar owner Al Swearengen, and Timothy Olyphant, as hard-nosed lawman Seth Bullock, the entire core cast is back (with the sad exception of Powers Boothe, who died in 2017), and the show’s gritty mining town has been painstakingly re-created. Yet nothing in Deadwood has really stayed the same.
Those changes, for better and worse, are what the movie focuses on. “It’s about the passage of time,” says executive producer Carolyn Strauss, giving the secretive production’s first interview. “It’s mellowed some people and hardened others.”The action picks up in 1889…
