This is a sad and untimely end to an outstanding TV series which sets a new benchmark in the western genre. Violent, verbally offensive and utterly unmissable. The trouble is it suffered the same fate as 'Carnivale', the quality never dropped, the audience figures were good but it grew just too expensive to produce. To give HBO some credit they allow the current storyline to come to a conclusion, although this is a show which could have easily run for another five series. As this is a semi-fictitious tale based on real life characters It would have been interesting to see Seth Bullock's rise to a powerful political and military leader, Al Swearengen's fall from power, Sol Star's rise to political power and Calamity Jane attempts at family life and demise to wild west show performer. There was promise of a final two feature length films to end the story of Deadwood, but these seem all but dead in the water.