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In 'The Deuce,' Sex Isn't Titillating — It's Business
Journalist-turned-TV producer David Simon is particularly good at two things: exposing the mindless, brutal institutions and systems that grind many Americans down, and humanizing people who normally exist at the margins of polite conversation.When Simon tackled those subjects in HBOs The Wire, he created one of the best series on television.
Now hes created the best new show of the 2017 fall season in HBOs The Deuce (debuting Sunday), a gritty, urban drama about the moment pornography became street legal in New York City, and the commodification of flesh became an industry.
(Ed. note: This is a show about pornography, so, as you might expect, this review discusses adult themes.). The setting for Simons latest urban fable is 1970s Times Square, before the days of Disney stores and chain restaurants.
This is back when streetwalkers worked The Deuce (slang for West 42nd Street in Midtown) accepting occasional police roundups and overnight stays in a holding cell as the cost of doing business.
Because its Simon (working with Wire buddies like crime novelist Richard Price and Deuce co-creator George Pelecanos) the world created here is so accurately run-down and sleazy you want to take a shower after every episode.
Prostitutes give oral sex in phone booths and cops shrug when they have a night where theres only a couple of rapes in the neighborhood.
In one impressive wide shot, a character walks across a sprawling street filled with period-specific cars as the city skyline rises in the distance, looking exactly like the time of John Lindsay and Maxs Kansas City.The show is also loosely based on reality, inspired by the real-life stories of two twin brothers who served as frontmen for the Gambino crime family in Manhattan.
James Franco plays fictionalized versions of both men — Vincent, a straight-shooting bar manager, and Frankie, a charismatic, degenerate gambler.
Vincent starts out as a typical Simon protagonist: Hes smart, working-class, unassuming and more than a little flawed, ground-down by two thankless jobs and a wayward wife. Opportunity comes knocking when a Gambino captain sets him up to run his own bar.
But Francos role isnt the gimmick it might seem.
He gives Vincent and Frankie markedly different attitudes — Vincent in particular becomes the guy you want to root for even when his wifes cheating pushes him to leave her and their two kids for a room in a Times Square flophouse.
Franco even directs two of the shows eight episodes. The real revelation here is Maggie Gyllenhaal, who shines as Candy, a prostitute who begins to see a way off the street by moving into porn films.
Candy works independently, without the protection of the pimps who controlled most of the Deuces streetwalkers, and Gyllenhaal exposes herself both physically and emotionally.
When one kid tries to get a freebie after their first session ends quickly, Candy is quick to school him: Car salesmen dont give a customer an extra car just because he closes a sale quickly.
The sex in The Deuce isnt titillating, and thats by design. Its a business transaction: either a momentary pleasure sold by a prostitute or an awkward fantasy depicted in amateurish films.
It is, however, explicit, with equal opportunity nudity (including at least three instances where male equipment is shown in an, um, excited state, which I have never seen on a TV series before).
Its tough to imagine today, when the Internet offers 24-hour access to pornography, but in the early 1970s movies and magazines depicting sex were illegal.
Then a Supreme Court decision tied such laws to local community standards, and suddenly pornography was legal in New York City. As one character, a porn director, explains, Theres been a change in the law about community standards.
Apparently, New York has none.Before long, police are pushing prostitutes off the streets and into mob-owned brothels, which pay the cops for protection.
Porn movie producers are paying those same prostitutes a pittance to star in their movies, and pimps are fighting to stay in control as the sex trade transforms beneath their feet.
Along the way, we hear pimps speak earnestly about why even their women want them to fail; we watch weary cops pursue pointless busts to serve the agendas of those above them; and occasionally violent flares take the lives of characters we have come to care about.
Simon and Pelecanos were well aware of the fact that theyre two white men recreating a world in which women were brutally oppressed, so they took care to include female collaborators like writers Megan Abbott and Lisa Lutz, and director Michelle MacLaren.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is also a producer on the show. Almost every major character is a cog in someone elses wheel struggling to stay afloat while wading through the muck of life on the Deuce.
Those compelling, artfully drawn characters keep you enthralled even as the show goes about the slow business of showing how pimps, prostitutes, the mob and police helped turn a back-alley pursuit into a billion-dollar industry.
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