I'm a little surprised there hasn't been a thread on this. New HBO show from The Wire team about the porn industry in the 70's. I wasn't thrilled about the plot/premise, but it looks good. Debuts September 10th but the pilot is available now. Gonna check out the 90 minute premiere tonight probably. Some background:

http://uproxx.com/sepinwall/the-deuce-d ... -the-wire/

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I'm sure that I will watch it, just hoping it is better than Vinyl, which I hoped would be better. I have high expectations from David Simon and the previews I have seen thus far don't get much of a reaction out of me.

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Not sure about this. Ill probably give it a try. But Treme was another series where I wasnt that interested in the subject but tried it because of Simon's involvement but I never got into that one.

I ended up enjoying Treme, but only because I connected with the characters. The story wasn't all that strong and it just kind of lost steam.

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Certainly setting themselves up for easy reviews if it sucks. Not sure I want to watch a show starring turtle girl that is about porn.

Just watched the pilot. It's like if Vinyl were a good show. Could be very inneresting. Not sure what to make of the identical twin nonsense but there are a ton of potentially interesting characters. You might even say 1970s NYC is a character itself!!!!!!1111!

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Finally got around to it tonight. I'm ALL IN on this now. Has the look of the next Great HBO Show. Starts off a bit slow because of course it does, but you can see pretty quickly the world that Simon and Pelecanos are building. I'll probably do a rewatch of it before the second episode starts on the 17th.

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My post is better.

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It usually is.

I agree on the twins thing. I hate when shows/actors do that. It's one of the reasons season 3 of Fargo was so awful. I think this show is probably strong enough to overcome that weakness though.

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Also, a lot funnier than I thought it would be, which I guess shouldn't be surprising given all the funny moments in The Wire.

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Not sure what your first sentence means. As to your second, yeah I'd recommend jacking off to porn vs this show, but then again I don't use dramatic tv shows as porn.

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Pilot was pretty fucking dumb.

What is it with the trend of having actors pull double-duty to play identical twins? Stupid.

And Maggie Gyllenhall looks like a gross old lady. Yech.

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Not a bad first episdoe. The twin thing is meh but we'll see what happens.

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Solid second episode.

Vincent making moves and I wonder what Frankie is gonna have going on.

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I may give this a try next week, I will never understand how Maggie gylenhal's ugly ass keeps getting roles.

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Shows her tits.

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Takes a nice cream of potato shot.

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I really enjoyed this episode also. Jackie Aprile as Rudy is great. CC killing the fake cop definitely jump started the episode and series a bit.

The whole Show and Prove thing is just vintage Wire.

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Finally caught the pilot last night. I was waiting to watch with my wife to see if it was something we could watch together but she
had little interest by the end. I thought it was pretty good. I like the period costumes and the vintage cars. I'll give it a few more
episodes to see where it goes.

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I was excited about Levy and Sobotka (who were both good)....And then Daniel fuckin LaRusso shows up out of nowhere.


Also, I gotta say I already buy Franco as both twins. I dont think about it. They seem like two normal characters.

This subject matter isn't something I can watch while the kids are awake so it will be difficult to stay up to date. I watched 1.5 episodes yesterday. It was ok. Enough to bring me back for a while.

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Yea, same.

Plus, Im not sure how interested I am in the rise of the porn industry or whatever but it'll probably be good enough character and story wise to keep me interested.

Can't remember a show I enjoyed this much at the start. I think it's been great. I hope Bubbs shows up at some point

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Chose vice principal over the deuce, looked promising with Kenny Powers and Boyd Crowder... Fuck was I misled. This show blows.

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Because those are comparable shows.

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U gonna post the gif or should I?

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Wasn't sure what to expect with this series but I've enjoyed it thus far. I think they do a good job of showing how grimy 70s
New York was. I can't stand the cocky twin but I'm pretty sure he is supposed to be unlikeable.

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I've already dipped out. 1 Ep on the DVR untouched.

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Have they gotten to the time in porn when they had good looking women partaking, yet?