It’s true, the language and violence can be hard to stomach. I am, however, impressed with how well the writing shows the full human cost of every violent decision. I highly recommend the DVD commentary on some of the episodes (I don’t recall which has Milch’s, but his is especially enlightening) … every facet of the language has been thought out with rigor.

And you’re not alone with the subtitles — I use them frequently on this show too. And I still have to google the occasional bit of archaic english.

But we stuck with it, and I had the (brilliant, I have to admit) idea to get the English subtitles on, so I could follow the action. Now we are hooked, and we watch about 2 episodes each evening. Watching a show with subtitles is kind of weird, but it’s better than having to ask Scott every 3 seconds “what did they say?” “What did just happened?” “Why did he do that?”