The Deuce · Season 1 · HBO
The Deuce Season 1
The Deuce Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.5/10. 8 episodes on HBO from 10 September 2017.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 1 of The Deuce arrived in September 2017 to near-unanimous critical acclaim, scoring 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 85 Metascore from 54 critics. David Simon and George Pelecanos returned to the sociological realism of The Wire, setting their lens on early 1970s Times Square - the era of legal street prostitution and nascent pornographic film-making. James Franco plays twin brothers Frankie and Vincent Martino in a dual performance that divided critics less than the show's frank handling of the sex industry. The unanimous consensus settled on Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose Eileen 'Candy' Merrell was called 'vividly teeming with tragicomic life' by TV Guide. Dorothy Rabinowitz at the Wall Street Journal praised the season as 'the kind of storytelling - ebullient, moving, brutal and informed with human mystery.'
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The Room
“Superb acting, punchy writing, expert production design, great music, and storytelling flair.”
Kristi Turnquist, The Oregonian“After a slow start, this engrossing, characteristically nuanced HBO drama mostly serves up aces.”
Brian Lowry, CNN
Standout Episodes
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- E1Pilot8.3
The pilot drops viewers into 1971 Times Square with the confidence of a show that knows exactly what it is - a social ecosystem study in the Simon mould. The twin-brothers conceit allows two economic strata of street survival to be mapped simultaneously, and Gyllenhaal's Candy commands every frame she enters.
The moment: Candy refusing to be managed by a pimp on her own terms - the series' central argument about agency delivered without a speech.
“It's the kind of storytelling - ebullient, moving, brutal and informed with human mystery.” - Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal