The word “fuck” was said 43 times in the first hour of the show. It has been reported that the series had a total count of 2,980 “fucks” and an average of 1.56 utterances of “fuck” per minute of footage.

Deadwood was never a show that cared too much about being historically accurate. Though based on the Old West town in South Dakota, and featuring many characters based on the real people that occupied the town during the time, there were several embellishments made as well.

Only in something like a trial transcript, where every word spoken by a witness had to be recorded verbatim, would the way some people actually talked be recorded for posterity. The language of Deadwood is largely accurate, though no one of that time would have allowed it to be printed for public consumption.

Profanity was frowned upon by polite society and old west cowboys rarely would swear in front of a lady.

According to Looper, Deadwood was the victim of corporate infighting which saw the epic western pulled from our screens. See, Deadwood, which was a hugely expensive show at the time, needed the backing of several production studios in order to get made.

Swearengen is still alive as the movie closes, although his days are likely numbered. Hearst will go back to the Senate and his home in California. It’s a fitting way to close: Deadwood, after all, is a real place, and Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock and George Hearst were real people.

You absolutely should watch Deadwood. The acting is uniformly excellent and the dialogue is wonderfully written and often hilarious. The world of Deadwood is really dense and tangible, I imagine as close to what the real town would have looked like as possible.

Deadwood: The Movie ends just before Al’s death. Deadwood could not exist without him, and to finish with a moment as final and conclusive as Al Swearengen’s dying would be too much, too obvious, too direct. Instead we end with what are probably the final moments of his life, as Trixie recites the Lord’s Prayer.

At the same time that Hearst’s hired guns are trying to kill Samuel, Hearst attempts to outbid Bullock and his competition when Utter’s property is put up for sale, following his death.

In the show, the circumstances of Smith’s demise were changed to a gradual decay due to a brain tumor, though he was killed by Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) before dying from the cancer. He was also depicted conducting the funeral of Wild Bill Hickok when in reality there was no preacher involved in his burial.

It refers to a foolish, ridiculous or worthless person. Swearengen uses it as an all-purpose dismissive insult, which is pretty much how it seems to be used in real life.

Beginning August 12, 1876, a smallpox epidemic swept through. So many people fell ill that tents were erected to quarantine the stricken. In 1876, General George Crook pursued the Sioux Indians from the Battle of Little Big Horn, on an expedition that ended in Deadwood in early September, known as the Horsemeat March.

dialectal. : hoop especially : a child’s hoop for play.

mott(Noun) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.

The first free postal sexual-health ‘MOT’ aimed at the rising number of older people with sexually transmitted infections has been launched. The kits will arrive in a plain envelope (stock image) Patients make an online request for the kit, which tests for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and HIV.

A copse or small stand of trees on a prairie.

Yes, motts is a valid Scrabble word.

A mot is a clever comment or witty saying. Mot is a short way of saying bon mot, which means the same thing (and is more commonly used). Mot is also used in the phrase mot juste, meaning the exact right word.

Your life motto is a tool you use to define who you are, set goals, and to make decisions… and ultimately it’s a phrase you’ll begin to live your life around.