“ Finally, it feels just like the eight episodes that make
up the first collection act as an intro to what occurs next, as the street women begin to ply their commerce within the safer confines of brothels and
some of them venture into the burgeoning world of porn. The Deuce is the newest series
by David Simon and George Pelecano of The Wire, and like that much-acclaimed series, it reveals
itself incrementally through fly-on-the-wall observations of its key characters as
they go about their lives. If it wasn’t for cable Tv though,
or extra particularly the phenomenon of subscription streaming, it seems
unlikely that a present just like the Deuce may ever
have eventuated. Season 1 of The Deuce is streaming now on Neon.
It’s a special world to the one we now know, with prostitutes risking their
lives promoting their intercourse in the road and ‘protected’ by pimps who think nothing of inflicting violence on their ‘property’ ought to they commit even a small indiscretion like falling asleep
on the job. ”