And so it’s jarring when Dolly replies “I don’t like it, either,” because she’s really talking about the johns who physically pin her down during sex. He’s referring to powerful men like George Hearst (Gerald McRaney), who is slowly bringing Al-along with everyone else in the prosperous frontier mining camp of Deadwood-to his metaphorical knees. “They hold you down from behind,” Al fumes, as she kneels beside him. As uttered by a sex worker named Dolly (Ashleigh Kizer), who spends most of her screen time between the legs of Ian McShane’s coarse saloon owner Al Swearengen, they constitute an assertion of personhood from a heretofore insignificant character. There are certainly more eloquent lines in Deadwood than “I don’t like it, either.” But after rewatching all three seasons of the great HBO western this spring, they’re the words I can’t get over.
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