Hillah, Iraq.

I happily received a package from my friends, Tom and Lecia. It contained the first season of Deadwood. My Beautiful Bride and I do not have cable or satellite by choice, but occasionally some program comes along that clearly shows why cable should be ordered a la carte. I have no need for sixteen QVCs, but I would pay for Deadwood.

We have a projector in the team room that we use for mission briefings. When not briefing missions, we use it to play multi player XBox or watch movies. Since receiving Deadwood, a small company of fans have begun to watch episodes when we have evenings free.

Television is a solitary drug. If you don’t believe me, turn on the television at a party, and watch how fast the party stops. However, as we are short of much else to do and talk about, Deadwood provides a wealth of material for discussion. We can spend almost as much time discussing what happened as the episode took to watch.