Down a Deadwood worm hole...

 

 

I've spent most of the week down a Deadwood wormhole.

 

The famous HBO series elbows The Sopranos, Breaking Bad and The Wire in that handful of shows as good as TV ever got.

 

Deadwood was a bawdy, foul-mouthed frontier western that's been off the air 15 years. Imagine if Our Town, Reservoir Dogs and Satan had a baby.

 

There's only a taste of it in the trailer here....

 

 

 

I was looking for interviews with show creator David Milch, which is how I stumbled across the dozens of hour-plus interviews the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has been putting online for more than a decade.

Everybody is there.

You can spend an hour or more with Helen Mirren, Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Leonardo Dicaprio, Colin Farrell, each showing off before a loving audience of their showbiz union peers.

Some interviewers are a tad twee or sketchy, but the famous actors simply grab the rudder and start telling rowdy or oft-told tales.

 

I've now watched two dozen. My faves would be John Krasinski's  hour of stories from The Office and after ... 

 

And for anyone seeking nostalgia, Burt Reynold's bittersweet and hilarious swan song, taped in 2006.