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James Franco is coming back for round two of The Deuce. Franco plays the pair of twin brothers at the center of George Pelecanos and David Simon’s grimy HBO series exploring the early years of the porn industry in 1970s New York City. Franco’s return for the second season of the drama series had been […]
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(We’re going to kickstart our weekly discussion of HBO’s The Deuce by answering one simple question: who or what is the “best bet” in this week’s episode?) As with any show in which there are so many moving pieces, it’s impossible to say that The Deuce did right by every single one of them, but […]
Everybody loves a good bookend, and with its season finale “My Name is Ruby,” The Deuce delivers us right back to where we started: a slightly longer episode, written by David Simon and George Pelecanos, directed by Michelle McLaren. But it’s not just a nifty bit of circularity; by explicitly recalling where we began, the […]
Throughout this entire first season of The Deuce, I’ve been struck by the frequency with which Simon, Pelecanos, and their writers have turned narrative expectation inside out. It’s been such a key component in the show’s modus operandi, in fact, that it feels like something they determined from the jump, in some kind of all-hands-on-deck […]
For my money, one of the best things about The Wire was how it portrayed both the creation of policy and the interpretation of it – the goings-on in the halls of power, and how those moves were read on the street. There hasn’t been too much of that on The Deuce so far, but […]
In the pilot episode of The Deuce, we got a look at how a pimp takes on a new girl, a literal dramatization of the classic straight-off-the-bus story (with a twist, this being The Deuce and all). In episode five, “What Kind of Bad?”, we go back even further than that. What first seems to […]
(We’re going to kickstart our weekly discussion of HBO’s The Deuce by answering one simple question: who or what is the “best bet” in this week’s episode?) This week’s episode of The Deuce is remarkable on two fronts: one, it’s a domestic episode in a series that’s so focused on specific lines of work, and […]
When the dust has settled on season one of The Deuce and we’re divvying up what the show was and wasn’t, I have a feeling we’ll have a pretty even split between episodes that were and were not about porn. At this halfway point, they’re even-steven – episodes two and three going into the ins […]
One of the more surprising elements of the first two episodes of The Deuce is the byplay between Vinnie and Frankie, the twin brothers played by James Franco. It’s no shock that Franco plays them both well (when he digs out of his own colon, he’s an excellent performer); the surprise is that he and […]
