I totally agree! We only found out about it at either Season 3 or 4 and liked it so much that I bought the previous ones to catch up. I just loved everything about it. Maybe, sometime, I'll go back and watch them again. We kept waiting for something catastrophic to happen to Rayland! I looked him up on imdb to see if he was working on anything new and, sadly, no new series. Have you seen him on Ellen? What a cutie!

It's my favorite show too. I'm recording the last three episodes for a justified binge. I'm gonna guess there'll be a show down between rayland and this new psycho gun Salinger. These days you never know the outcome. I'm hoping the hero rides off into the sunset.

Btw... if you haven't seen it , the show DEADWOOD is a must see. Think justified in the days of the old west. Timothy Oliphant plays the good guy and pretty much the same character of rayland.

How many seasons are there? I have the first, and should get back to it. A friend recently named their new daughter "Raelyn." Every time I say the name I think of Rayland. :-)

We have seen every episode (well, except the finale, because we were traveling). It's on tonight, so we will see it tomorrow. Maybe we will have to watch Deadwood.

Jeff, is there a way to watch Deadwood's old episodes without having HBO? I wonder if they have been released to be able to get them on Netflix, for example.

It's been released to dvd I know . Their running it free ,on demand on HBO. It might be worth looking if you have on demand cable. Trust me, it's worth the trouble. The only reason it was cancelled was it cost too much to produce.

I could try there one month free offer just to watch it. I have DirectTV that has On Demand so it should work. Thanks.

Go for it. Let me know what you think.

Timothy Olyphant was in a lot of movies before Deadwood, and between then and Raylan on Justified. (Elmore Leonard met a guy named Raylan and thought it was a cool name, so used it in the books (which really are quite different from the series in many ways, though I haven't read the one he wrote after the series started--that might be closer).) Deadwood is available for no additional fee on Amazon Prime Instant Video, or $2-3 per episode without Prime. Last Summer it was announced that HBO would stream exclusively on Amazon, but I think Netflix has the DVDs. It's also available on iTunes from $2, and on HBOGO if you have a subscription, even if it isn't on your On Demand index currently.

Looks like a few options. Thanks for the info. I feel a binge-watching coming on, lol.

Raven, there is probably a long line of us who had a crush on him! Tim "was" Raylan and in real life is just as appealing. I have seen him on Ellen a few times and he is a very sexy man. He has teenage children and tells funny stories about being a TV star father. And I dislike the new hat also!

I missed him on Ellen darn it.

I do have the book titled Raylan by Elmore Leonard, I have not read it yet my husband did. I love his writing such a loss. No one could have done it the way Elmore did. I need to try to get a hold of Deadwood. I hope we see Tim again soon on something as good, but he is always going to be Raylan. I wonder how many baby boys have suddenly been named Raylan lol. I like the name.

I saw where a baby girl was named after him but they changed the spelling to make it more feminine. I will have to look for the book. It sounds like something I would like to read.

Well, we tried to watch Deadwood and just couldn't get into it. Couldn't figure out if it had a plot (or what it was). I'm not a prude but there were so many strong obscenities in the first ten minutes that were distracting. What am I missing?

Wonder if it will eventually come to Netflix

I checked. Netflix does have Deadwood on DVD. I only saw the entry for Season 1, but it says "three seasons." With HBO giving the exclusive elsewhere, it won't be available on Netflix streaming any time soon. Same thing happened with Justified. Amazon got the streaming exclusive, so Netflix has the DVDs. At least I saw something online that said they did.

Jae, I felt like that watching The Usual Suspects. Then a sanitized version came on basic cable during the daytime. I was so pleased with how good a movie was once I could listen to it without turning it off. I'm not a prude, and I don't usually care for Bowdlerization, but sometimes the producers think that real life verisimilitude is superior to artistry and they do this kind of thing. Sigh.

I had decided I was going to buy the full 3 series complete set in blu ray for my husband as part of his anniversary gift but I wonder if I should just buy season one to make sure he likes it first. I can't find the individual seasons in blu ray just dvd, the complete series set comes in both. I almost bought season 1 tonight at Walmart but it was dvd and I would really like blu ray. I think maybe I should just go with buying one season at a time.

I did some poking around and only found Season 1 Deadwood blu rays from Australia, but I think blu rays still care about PAL vs. NTSC, which means it wouldn't play unless you have a multi-format player.

Amazon was having a huge Justified sale that ended yesterday, but you might still be able to find the same prices. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=amb_link_431474582_4?ie=UTF8&field-promotion_keyword=P1NA13L1EGXIWP50IP&rh=i%3Amovies-tv%2Cn%3A2625373011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=1JRQNX2JYNN7C7WEG926&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=2079157222&pf_rd_i=B0006FO5LO

For whatever it's worth. in this case, You won't be able to tell the difference between the two. The show wasn't produced in high def.

Doesn't Blu Ray generally have more supplemental content, including online?

I haven't done a comparison, but I found a review of the Deadwood blu ray set that says this:
HBO’s Blu-ray set includes everything. I can’t wait until they do this with The Wire
though that was 4×3, so it makes a little less sense, but still. The
show and all the DVD supplements are presented over a thirteen disc set.
Almost all of the supplementary material could have been relegated to
one disc, but this set represents the HBO way – all class, all luxury.
Every episode is presented in picture-perfect widescreen (1.78:1) and in
5.1 DTS-HD surround. The presentation is immaculate. This is how the
show should look, and the rich details and dust and swagger are
preserved here.

There's more about what's included in the Blu Ray further on in the review. http://collider.com/deadwood-the-complete-series-blu-ray-review/

Here's another review which talks about the HD transformation and lists all the extras. I think it says that it has all the extras from the DVD set plus more, but it's too early for me to read it closely. http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/46021/deadwood-the-complete-series/

Excellent thanks for all the research! I am going to be making a decision soon, I want to have them with us when we travel in the rv so at night we just pop one in the player and have something good to watch.