Indecent Exposure

Horrors, you’re f_cking right,” says Al Swearengen in episode one of year two of HBO’s Deadwood. “He don’t know if he’s breathing or taking it in through f_cking gills. He is that f_cking c_ntstuck. They’re afloat in some fairy f_cking bubble lighter than air. Him, her sn_tch and his stupid f_cking badge.”

Now, Ian McShane’s character is from Manchester, England, and a little more than self-educated, so he delivers this lecture in the tone of someone doing a classical monologue to get into Juilliard.