Summer is almost over and HBO decided to give subscribers a treat today: an early sneak peek at the highly anticipated “The Deuce.” Yep, if you have HBO NOW, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and HBO on any other affiliate program, you can watch “The Deuce” now.
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All you need to know is that the show is from David Simon, the creator behind HBO’s acclaimed show “The Wire,” and George Pelecanos, an acclaimed author and screenwriter who worked on drug trade drama as well as “Treme.” If you need more, the show also explores prostitution, porn and the sex industry in New York in the 1970s, perhaps brushing against the same era that Martin Scorsese tried to examine through the lens of rock and punk in the short lived “Vinyl.” Here’s the synopsis for “The Deuce”:
Created by George Pelecanos and David Simon and starring James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, THE DEUCE follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world at the pioneering moments of what would become the billion-dollar American sex industry. George Pelecanos, David Simon, James Franco and Nina K. Noble executive produce.
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James Franco plays twins on the show: one a double-shifting bartender with two kids and a wayward wife in Brooklyn, the second an insouciant gambler with piling mob debts. Other midtown denizens on the show include veteran hookers Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Ashley (Jamie Neumann), young streetwalkers Darlene (Dominique Fishback) and Lori (Emily Meade), and smooth-talking pimps C.C. (Gary Carr), Larry (Gbenga Akinnagbe) and Rodney (Cliff Smith/Method Man). Margarita Levieva also appears on the show and Zoe Kazan will have a guest appearances too.
The season premiere, available now on HBO is written by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Michelle MacLaren, the original director of “Wonder Woman” who bailed on the project and known for her work on “The Walking Dead.”
“The Deuce,” debuts Sunday, Sept. on HBO, with the season’s other seven episodes airing and streaming on subsequent Sundays at 9:00 p.m. Watch the new trailer below.
