That's a Wrap 

A struggling Lori turns to Candy for help before revisiting The Deuce; Candy makes a deal to secure funding for her film; Abby takes a stand against the latest phase of Midtown redevelopment; Tommy explains the new world order to Vincent.

Director:

Alex Hall

Writers:

George Pelecanos (created by), David Simon (created by)

Stars:

James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chris Bauer

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
James Franco	...	Vincent Martino
Maggie Gyllenhaal	...	Eileen 'Candy' Merrell
Chris Bauer	...	Bobby Dwyer
Chris Coy	...	Paul Hendrickson (credit only)
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.	...	Chris Alston
Luke Kirby	...	Gene Goldman
David Krumholtz	...	Harvey Wasserman
Margarita Levieva	...	Abigail 'Abby' Parker
Olivia Luccardi	...	Melissa
Emily Meade	...	Lori Madison
Sepideh Moafi	...	Loretta (credit only)
Michael Rispoli	...	Rudy Pipilo (credit only)
Daniel Sauli	...	Tommy Longo
Zoe Kazan	...	Andrea Martino
Mustafa Shakir	...	Big Mike

Storyline

A struggling Lori turns to Candy for help before revisiting The Deuce; Candy makes a deal to secure funding for her film; Abby takes a stand against the latest phase of Midtown redevelopment; Tommy explains the new world order to Vincent.

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Plot Keywords:

redevelopment | greyhound bus | twin cities minnesota | minneapolis saint paul minnesota | yellow cab | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Did You Know?

Trivia

Reg talks to Melissa about a shooting to come, a "fish-out-of-water story with some Australian man who moves to the Big Apple and schools us all". This is the movie Crocodile Dundee, released in 1986.

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Soundtracks

St. Thomas
Written and Performed by Sonny Rollins

User Reviews

I love this show but this episode was terrible and very unrealistic

I lived in midtown in my late teens and so much of this show resonates for me. But I am sorry this episodes' speech by Abby is just bizarre. The murder rate and major violent crime rate in midtown was skyrocketing at the time and EVERYONE wanted the pushers, crack addicts who would stab people for pocket change, and the prostitution which included trafficking of kids, OUT of there.

They weren't any businesses, including a tavern's "friends and customers" and NO ONE would have applauded anyone who asserted they were. And no one called the homeless at the time "homeless.: They were called "bums" winos" and "bag ladies" and right or wrong everyone with either a business or home in midtown wanted them out too.

I am not making a moral judgement but this artificial and frankly bogus and utterly unrealistic scene in a show that I love because of its gritty realism was way out of place.

I really like the rest of the plot lines, but that part felt like it was written by someone with no familiarity with Manhattan of the period. It was as if someone magically transported some over the top SJW into the middle ages!

Details

Release Date:

21 October 2019 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

65 min