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Man, I cannot agree with you enough about "John from Cincinnati." As pissed as I was at the cancellation of Deadwood, and now with word from HBO that the two two-hour wrap-up movies' chances of happening are "50-50," it would be easy to take it all out on "John."
But this show *so* doesn't need any pretense for calling it a sorry mess. Apparently I didn't stick with it as long as you did. I gave it four solid episodes. I'm all for letting David Milch's genius hit the screen unrestrained, but in this case I think someone should've sat him down and said, "um, David, you realize this story isn't really going anywhere, right?" And if he said he was making some kind of artistic statement that life is chaos, well, that's all well and good, but it doesn't necessarily make good television, you know?
Why was Milch in such a rush to stop making Deadwood and start down this road? Perhaps it's an HBO lie, blaming it on Milch... Either way, as bad as "John from Cincinnati" is, I hope it is also forever laden with the tag, "the show that they killed Deadwood for." They should take this thing out back and slit its throat, then get on with the Deadwood movies.
