Do Anything, Say Anything
James Meek: On the New TV, 4 January 2024
Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust and Lies that Broke Television
by Peter Biskind.
Allen Lane, 383 pp., £25, November,978 0 241 44390 3 Show More
by Peter Biskind.
Allen Lane, 383 pp., £25, November,
“... as a landmark in the new, anything-goes TV. He also brings out its ambiguities. He talks to Ian McShane, who plays the brothel keeper Al Swearengen, about working with David Milch, the show’s creator, and Paula Malcolmson, who plays Trixie, Swearengen’s moll.In one scene, Trixie gets roughed up by a customer and shoots him. McShane recalls, ‘I ... ”
