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The Deuce

Series · 2017

The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

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The sides of The Deuce

  • Times Square in the 1970s and 80s
  • The birth of the porn industry
  • Pimps, sex workers, bar owners and cops

The Deuce is good for you if…

  • you like a gritty, detailed picture of old Times Square.
  • you like following dozens of lives across a whole neighbourhood.
  • you want to watch Maggie Gyllenhaal as a sex worker who takes up the camera.

The Deuce is bad for you if…

  • you'd rather not watch frequent nudity and sex scenes.
  • you can't take exploitation, drugs and the AIDS years on screen.
  • you need a plot that moves. This one builds slowly over seasons.

About: exploitation · money · the city

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