HBO released the trailer for its eight-episode third and final season of David Simon’s porn drama, “The Deuce” on Thursday.
Welcome to 1985. Here’s what’s going down this decade:
Season 3 of “The Deuce” brings us into the world of 1985, just as VHS overtakes film as the primary medium for porn production and distribution. The lure of the California sunshine, the city’s aggressive takeover of commercial sex properties in Times Square and the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic mark the end of an era. With the party of the 1970s winding down, 42nd Street has deteriorated into a hive of uncontrolled violent crime and seedy video stores, making urban renewal seem more unlikely than ever before. Following the interconnected lives of Times Square’s barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, police, mobsters, porn actors and producers, the eight-episode third season of “The Deuce” brings the series’ arc to a dramatic conclusion.
Welcome to 1985. Here’s what’s going down this decade:
Season 3 of “The Deuce” brings us into the world of 1985, just as VHS overtakes film as the primary medium for porn production and distribution. The lure of the California sunshine, the city’s aggressive takeover of commercial sex properties in Times Square and the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic mark the end of an era. With the party of the 1970s winding down, 42nd Street has deteriorated into a hive of uncontrolled violent crime and seedy video stores, making urban renewal seem more unlikely than ever before. Following the interconnected lives of Times Square’s barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, police, mobsters, porn actors and producers, the eight-episode third season of “The Deuce” brings the series’ arc to a dramatic conclusion.
- 8/29/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
HBO is sharing all kinds of news today from the TCAs.
Now we're hearing from The Deuce and getting our first word that, yes, James Franco is still a part of the series after being accused of less than savory behavior shortly after he won his Globe Award for his performance in The Disaster Artist.
Chronicling the rise of pornography and the multibillion-dollar industry’s transformation of American culture, the critically acclaimed drama series The Deuce, created by George Pelecanos and David Simon, returns for its nine-episode second season Sunday, Sept. 9 (10/9c), exclusively on HBO.
Resuming five years after the culmination of the first season, The Deuce returns to the world of 1977, capturing the Times Square area of midtown New York at its most garish and volatile.
The series is also available on HBO Now, HBO Go, HBO On Demand and affiliate portals.
Related: Get HBO via Prime Video Channels for Addictive Dramas,...
Now we're hearing from The Deuce and getting our first word that, yes, James Franco is still a part of the series after being accused of less than savory behavior shortly after he won his Globe Award for his performance in The Disaster Artist.
Chronicling the rise of pornography and the multibillion-dollar industry’s transformation of American culture, the critically acclaimed drama series The Deuce, created by George Pelecanos and David Simon, returns for its nine-episode second season Sunday, Sept. 9 (10/9c), exclusively on HBO.
Resuming five years after the culmination of the first season, The Deuce returns to the world of 1977, capturing the Times Square area of midtown New York at its most garish and volatile.
The series is also available on HBO Now, HBO Go, HBO On Demand and affiliate portals.
Related: Get HBO via Prime Video Channels for Addictive Dramas,...
- 7/25/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Treme, Season 3, Episode 4: “The Greatest Love”
Written by David Simon (Story), Mari Kornhauser and Chris Yakaitis (Teleplay)
Directed by Ernest Dickerson
Airs Sundays at 10pm (Et) on HBO
This week, on Treme: LP feels the heat, romance is in the air (or it isn’t), and Ladonna’s is the place to be on Sundays
After last week’s character survey, which featured significant moments and decisions for many of the main cast, “The Greatest Love” pulls in closer, focusing on relative newcomer LP Everett’s investigation into police corruption. Much of this episode centers around LP, who’s been relegated to the fringes for much of his time so far on the show. We finally get the particulars of the case he’s working, of which the negligent homicide of a New Orleanian by a group of No police officers is just the beginning. After a few...
Written by David Simon (Story), Mari Kornhauser and Chris Yakaitis (Teleplay)
Directed by Ernest Dickerson
Airs Sundays at 10pm (Et) on HBO
This week, on Treme: LP feels the heat, romance is in the air (or it isn’t), and Ladonna’s is the place to be on Sundays
After last week’s character survey, which featured significant moments and decisions for many of the main cast, “The Greatest Love” pulls in closer, focusing on relative newcomer LP Everett’s investigation into police corruption. Much of this episode centers around LP, who’s been relegated to the fringes for much of his time so far on the show. We finally get the particulars of the case he’s working, of which the negligent homicide of a New Orleanian by a group of No police officers is just the beginning. After a few...
- 10/15/2012
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
The culture that may be the saving grace for the characters of "Treme" can sometimes be impenetrable. That’s the thing about tight systems – they are as resistant to strangers as they are to change. In "Treme"’s artistic worlds, the necessary passport is talent. In the fourth episode (teleplay by Mari Kornhauser & Chris Yakaitis, story by David Simon), Janette begins to staff Desautel’s while Annie Tee continues her ascent. [Spoilers ahead] Annie’s been taking the long road – from street musician to fronting her own band that this season gets its own record deal. (The band is called “Bayou Cadillac,” a pun borrowed from my pals in Beausoleil, who used it as the title both of a song and an album; while the band has never appeared in the series, they at least get a mention.) Slow progress is one of the things that series do best: Simon & Overmeyer let Annie sneak up on us.
- 10/15/2012
- by Terry Curtis Fox
- Thompson on Hollywood
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