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This series focuses on the seedy world of Manhattan's porn and prostitution industry in the 1970s and 1980s, telling the story of Candy, a sex worker with high ambitions who aspires to make a name for herself producing X-rated films.
[The Deuce is] about taking a non-exploitive approach to an industry built on exploitation. As visually spellbinding as this particular vision of 1971 is, there is nothing nostalgic about it.
Overall, The Deuce opened well. It weaves a tapestry as diverse and smeared as the population of its titular street trekking through a particularly rainy day.
The capitalist critique is no less potent for being obvious, especially given the panoramic approach Simon and Pelecanos adopt to illustrate its toxic reaches.
[It] delves straight into it, setting a tone that's just as delightfully pulpy, and introducing a cast of pimps, sex workers, gangsters, and cops (including twins played by James Franco) that rivals Game of Thrones in sheer scope.
It's a nightmare, and highly reminiscent of Bubbles' tour of Hamsterdam in season three of The Wire. That scene haunted me for a long time; I wonder whether this show might do the same.