I stopped watching “Deadwood” after all the gratuitous cursing and foul language, and doubt I could take a re-try.
Yeah, but they cursed with an extraordinary command of the language. You needed a thesaurus to understand what they were saying, which was educational at least. LOL
I remember picking up a Cowboy novel back in the 60’s, and blushing at the constant foul language. I’m not sure it’s because people really talked that way, way back then, or the novelist wanted readers to think they did.
I don’t always have the cleanest mouth, shame on me, but gratuitous language in films/TV just turns me off. Same with nudity and sex. Grossly graphic and frequently sadistic violence is the biggest turnoff of all for me. A coworker showed me a few scenes from Game of Thrones and the horrible graphic violence is to me simply unneccesary — I’m no shrinking violet and I’m fine with some violence as necessary to the plot, but uber-realistic portrayals of shrieking burning and skinning and disembowelment kind of discourage me.
A lot of research went into that...that was in fact how they spoke. However, I respect your opinion.