Porn, prostitutes and heart on HBO’s The Deuce
by Daniel D’Addario
Sep 30, 2017
2 minutes
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PRESTIGE TELEVISION IS, IN THE main, notable for its seriousness of purpose and for its grimness. But what’s most exciting about HBO’s new drama The Deuce may well be its lightness.
Which isn’t to say the series isn’t ambitious. The show is set in early-1970s Times Square and assays the lives and livelihoods of bartenders, prostitutes, pimps and cops at a time when
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