Three episodes left, and I can already tell I'm going to miss it. The cancellation of Deadwood seems to be HBO's biggest mystery: Best I can tell, showrunner David Milch's long-term availability was in doubt, and HBO decided to minimize their exposure by letting their options on the huge cast expire after season three had wrapped. It was abandoned, unfinished, and was never really properly killed. Good show, though.
Yeah, she was cute. Well, we finished it. I was prepared to be disappointed by a somewhat unresolved ending, and that's what I got. Of course, George Hearst was a real person (Wm. Randolph Hearst's father), and if the real man didn't die in Deadwood I suppose it would have been wrong to kill him in the series, however tempting it must have been. Esp. since some years later Hearst went on to become a US senator...
