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I can see the quality in the series, but I didn't like being in that seedy world. I gave up after the first two episodes. 

I was also afraid of getting lung cancer from so much second-hand movie smoke.

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Love this show. I started watching it as it aired a couple of years ago. Got sidetracked with other stuff halfway through the first season and didn’t finish it until the second season started to air.

It seems like almost every character is heading towards a dark/sad demise. I am guessing Frankie gets killed by the mafia or something along those lines. Vincent and Abby split up. Paul is going to get AIDS. Maybe Eileen ends up doing legit film work.

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I love this series merely for the window into that seedy world of NYC in 80s. Paul, Bobby, and Goldman are all getting AIDS. Rudy and Tommy will have a go at some point since Tommy's doing stuff under the table. I believe the mid 80s was a big time for Mob wars in NY. The evolution of the porn industry is also interesting with nods to movies like New Wave Hookers and the VHS revolution. The AIDS Crisis is something I've never thought got enough of a hard look by Hollywood outside of series like And The Band Played On and Philadelphia. 

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I am completely fascinated by 70s/early 80s NYC. I love to watch documentaries about it and especially love street photography of it. One of my favorite films is Taxi Driver and after I saw it when I was 17, I have been fascinated by that era of NYC.

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4 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:


Totally. The photos of Brooklyn and the Bronx from that decade are crazy. Looks like Beirut.

Having worked in NYC several times during the mid 80's, it was almost like Beirut. Just no artillery. Gangs and the Mob were real problems.

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Having worked in NYC several times during the mid 80's, it was almost like Beirut. Just no artillery. Gangs and the Mob were real problems.

I can only imagine.

“Someday a real rain come and wash all this scum off the streets.”
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I’m in for another season. I am interested to see how they wrap it up, but I am glad they are wrapping it up. The train wreck is coming and there is no way that a number of the characters don’t end up with sad endings based on the show history, time it is set in, etc.

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I can only imagine.

“Someday a real rain come and wash all this scum off the streets.”
Amazingly that storm was named Rudy. Times square was a complete shit hole. Anything north of the mid 80s was terrible.
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On 9/11/2019 at 8:47 PM, Brew said:

I’m in for another season. I am interested to see how they wrap it up, but I am glad they are wrapping it up. The train wreck is coming and there is no way that a number of the characters don’t end up with sad endings based on the show history, time it is set in, etc.

right out of the Boogie Nights playbook.  This time period has always been interesting to me.  So much sadness, lack of belief, etc.  Then USAUSAUSA won the gold and everything was ok again.

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One thing that threw me was Bobbys oldest kid. I didn't even recognize him at all, I just thought they were showing these 2 idiots snortin coke at Frankies bar for the storyline.  

Margarita is still top 10 hottest women in the world gotdamn she is smokin

Margarita-Levieva.jpg

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On 9/19/2019 at 10:43 PM, mulletpelini said:

One thing that threw me was Bobbys oldest kid. I didn't even recognize him at all, I just thought they were showing these 2 idiots snortin coke at Frankies bar for the storyline.  

Margarita is still top 10 hottest women in the world gotdamn she is smokin

Margarita-Levieva.jpg

Didn't realize she has only five more months before she joins the "chicks over 40 that still have it" thread

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just got caught back up and this show is still very good.  Not liking at all where Frankie's dumbassedry is leading, but they've been setting that up since the pilot.  Also, that strange confusion of the early days of the AIDS epidemic aside, it is curious that millionaire has zero reservations about sexing former prostitute turned porn star.  

 

 

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52 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

Did the cops screw up the fire thing or was that all they needed?   I didn't quite follow. 

I think they're going to condemn the building.

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8 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:

Did the cops screw up the fire thing or was that all they needed?   I didn't quite follow. 

Must have been what they needed because Karate Kid told D’Angelo Barksdale to speak well of him. 

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12 hours ago, mulletpelini said:

 

finger banging that arty chick was something I appreciated. 

That was hot. I think it should've gone longer, though. Perhaps that's just me....

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On 9/11/2019 at 7:59 AM, Patricio Swayze said:

I am completely fascinated by 70s/early 80s NYC. I love to watch documentaries about it and especially love street photography of it. One of my favorite films is Taxi Driver and after I saw it when I was 17, I have been fascinated by that era of NYC.

Can you expand on which documentaries you liked please? 

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Just started and caught up on the deuce this last month. Great show. It was tuff watching that seedy shit in the first couple episodes but they do a great job telling everyone’s stories. 

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Can you expand on which documentaries you liked please? 


I need to go back and look for titles, but a few are:

Style Wars (documentary about graffiti in NYC during that era)

Rubble Kings (mostly about NYC street gangs in the 70s)

The Police Tapes (kind of a precursor to “Cops” in that a film crew rides along with police in 1970s NYC)
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The PBS documentary “Blackout” is an awesome period piece as well. Focuses on the NYC blackout of 1977. It’s on Amazon Prime and the PBS app.

The Studio 54 documentary on Netflix is great too.

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3 hours ago, bamachine said:

Dumbass twin finally got what he had been asking for over a long stretch. 

I think the show failed with his character, and the proof is that I didn't feel anything when it happened, and nobody's even bothering to talk about it here.  It's like, eh, finally. 

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This “and at the end, after over a decade, everyone just suddenly wakes up to the cost” is not only depressing, it feels forced.  As if the controversy over the subject matter got to them and they decided to try to win the Jezebel crowd over in the final season. 

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The scene with Todd's parents didn't go the way I figured. I was expecting them to scoop him up and cut Paul out completely.

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I thought the end of Treme was a beautiful, touching, and a culturally accurate ending to a flawed show. I’m hoping for the same for The Deuce. 
 

I hated how the show handled Frankie’s death. They spend a whole season carefully, and thoughtfully setting up the death of a minor character, Todd. Meanwhile, in a span 50 minutes Frankie is killed, mourned, and avenged. I’m guessing Franco had other commitments and didn’t have time to portray two characters anymore. 
 

I’m confused on Tommy and Rudy’s reaction to Frankie’s death. Rudy is a Capo in the Gambino Family. Frankie and Vincent are most certainly with them and protected. The son of a made guy, Pascal kills Frankie. Surely, Rudy would demand a sit down and retribution. Pascal isn’t made and his dad isn’t a Capo or in Gambino upper management. Yet Rudy and Tommy let it slide, and blow Vincent off. Rudy seems to like Vincent, and as a businessman you’d think he’d demand compensation for the loss of an good earner. Just my two cents. 

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I'll be honest, the story of Frankie knocking out the pitcher who beaned Vincent got to me, (brothers and shit). Wasn't expecting that since when Frankie died, it wasn't that big of a deal to me.

Two of my best friends growing up were twins.  They fought all the fucking time.  When it came to fighting one though, you were fighting two.  Two of the toughest sonsabitches I've known in this life.

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I hated how the show handled Frankie’s death. They spend a whole season carefully, and thoughtfully setting up the death of a minor character, Todd. Meanwhile, in a span 50 minutes Frankie is killed, mourned, and avenged. I’m guessing Franco had other commitments and didn’t have time to portray two characters anymore. 


I disagree. Frankie lived a very fast lifestyle. Gambling, porn, organized crime, etc. him being shot down like that, to me makes perfect sense. He was shot down like a dog in the streets. He was a criminal. Most people don’t care about criminals, especially ones like Frankie. You read about it in the news and go about your day.

Todd on the other hand contracts a disease, that at the time was kind of a mystery, and for many people is this long, slow death sentence. Drawing it out like that felt right. He wasn’t a bad person, but contracted a bad disease.

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