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
Exclusive: Netflix has acquired rights to David Grann’s 2008 New Yorker feature The Chameleon, in a package that has Mission: Impossible MI6 helmer Christopher McQuarrie developing to direct, with Wolf of Wall Street and The Sopranos‘ Terence Winter co-writing the script with Carl Capotorto. Winter and his wife Rachel Winter will produce with McQuarrie and his producing partner, Heather McQuarrie. The Chameleon is the chilling true story of Frédéric Bourdin, a young…...
- 7/26/2017
- Deadline
By Carl Capotorto
It’s a Saturday night in the Bronx. Around eight o’clock. Summer of ‘76. My big sister’s attic bedroom is aflounce in satin, sequins, and feather boas. She and her girlfriends and I — joined, perhaps, by a couple of my friends — are primping for a midnight screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Stills and publicity shots from the gender-bending cult sensation out of London are taped to the walls for reference: Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, and Nell Campbell leering at us through heavy layers of glamour Goth. T...
It’s a Saturday night in the Bronx. Around eight o’clock. Summer of ‘76. My big sister’s attic bedroom is aflounce in satin, sequins, and feather boas. She and her girlfriends and I — joined, perhaps, by a couple of my friends — are primping for a midnight screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Stills and publicity shots from the gender-bending cult sensation out of London are taped to the walls for reference: Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, and Nell Campbell leering at us through heavy layers of glamour Goth. T...
- 12/7/2009
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
By Carl Capotorto
Cappi’s Pizza and Sangweech Shoppe, my father’s fateful venture into the restaurant trade, opened for business in the winter of 1964. Built by hand out of a pair of burnt-out storefronts, Cappi’s occupied an awkward stretch of White Plains Road near Pelham Parkway in our native Bronx, directly under the elevated tracks of the Number 2 train ... but nowhere near the actual station.
You really had to go out of your way to get to get there. Once inside, you had to endure the terrifying racket of trains thundering overhead every few minutes, sparks raining...
Cappi’s Pizza and Sangweech Shoppe, my father’s fateful venture into the restaurant trade, opened for business in the winter of 1964. Built by hand out of a pair of burnt-out storefronts, Cappi’s occupied an awkward stretch of White Plains Road near Pelham Parkway in our native Bronx, directly under the elevated tracks of the Number 2 train ... but nowhere near the actual station.
You really had to go out of your way to get to get there. Once inside, you had to endure the terrifying racket of trains thundering overhead every few minutes, sparks raining...
- 9/28/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
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