The Deuce

[Benny Profane]

This show is starting to take off for me now. I'm in.

[Diamond Joe]

Yeah me too

loving the mob connection. Rudy! with Vince and enforcer(?) Frankie?!? and I hated the "twins" a couple weeks ago

also liking where the porn thing is going, into a lot of the characters now too

[Benny Profane]

"I'm at tenth and 37th, and I just shot a nigger."

[Meadow Skipper]

"I'm at tenth and 37th, and I just shot a nigger."

You left out the best part: "Come get him." <hangs up phone, pours coffee>

[neckdeep]

loving the mob connection.

The Genovese mobster who was brokering the sit down between Rudy Pipilo and Matty the Horse was the infamous Oddfather, Vincent "the Chin" Gigante. Sorta weird thing going on in the show where the Gambinos are all fictional characters and the Genovese are real historical figures.

[AK47bp]

Another great serving of cock this week. Thanks HBO

[Marshall Tucker]

underwhelmed so far. Cool that it's all historical an all but sorta...yawn.

[Benny Profane]

You left out the best part: "Come get him." <hangs up phone, pours coffee>

It just dawned on me that the shooting was one of those moments that assured my devotion for awhile. Rarely do I jump and shout and laugh at something on my TV screen, but that was good. Much like the bathtub falling through the ceiling in Breaking Bad, season 1 episode 2. I was hooked after that.

[ill-advised strategy]

It's supposed to be 1971, and I watched a promo thingy that said they were so meticulous about the little details.

Fuck you, that's a 1979 Ford pickup. Meticulous my ass.
I should send them an email so they can edit that shit out before the dvd and the reruns and whatnot.

[neckdeep]

I thought the way Leon shot Reggie Love was sort of a call back to the last episode of The Wire because that's the actor who played Slim Charles. The totally unexpected instant killshot delivered with a calm demeanor. Echoes of "That was for Joe."

[ill-advised strategy]

and also some discussion (I can't remember the specifics) of historical hitmen in Baltimore, the nature of which described that exact type of phone call. I think maybe it was Barksdale and Weebay (sp?) talking about Dennis Wise when they were setting something up for him to get out of prison.
..yeah, I went and found it on the intertoobz:

You know, what I mean? A good soldier ain't gonna lack for work.
Take that number, man.
When you out, you call.
We'll hook you up, man, no problem.
Like a coming-home gift, a-ight.
Call it.
Joint mighta broke him.
Boss, you talkin' about a homey walked up an' shot Elijah Davis in broad daylight at Pennsie and Gold, then picked up the phone, dialed 9-1-1, told the police, "I just shot a nigger, come get him".

and I think that was in one of his books too, David Simon doesn't seem at all afraid to double back on material... nttawwt necessarily.

[grskier]

I need to catch up.

I don't have the longest attention span, so the season long build up is tough sometimes.

The pilot was good but too long.
Episode 2 you get a bit more.

[Labcabin]

Why are all the tits saggy! Come on HBO!

[Meadow Skipper]

Why are all the tits saggy! Come on HBO!

Yeah well, I'm pretty sure the actors not being air-brushed implanted playboy type models is kind of an important part of the overall message.

But you could find a lot of those bodies on 'late night' HBO.

[AK47bp]

The only hot one is the bartender chick.

[neckdeep]

The only hot one is the bartender chick.

News flash: Street walkers are never "hot." If they were hot, they'd have other options.

[AK47bp]

News flash: Street walkers are never "hot." If they were hot, they'd have other options.

Sorry, didn't know it was a documentary.

[Diamond Joe]

The only hot one is the bartender chick.

What, you don't like the Ashley (the girl who ran away)? Or how about the one who was getting fucked in the porno as Candy was directing?

[Benny Profane]

News flash: Street walkers are never "hot." If they were hot, they'd have other options.

"Hot" is in the eyes of the beholder, as we all know. Ask Eddie Murphy about that, or tons of men who have "hot" wives or girlfriends, but still insist on hitting the street market.

My buddy thinks that I like this show because I like to see Maggie Gyllenhall naked, but, sorry, I don't get that, although I dig her voice. To each his own.

Darlene gives me a rise, though. Little devil.

[Meadow Skipper]

My buddy thinks that I like this show because I like to see Maggie Gyllenhall naked

No, that's not it.

[Diamond Joe]

So.. it that it? Season one??

[Meadow Skipper]

So.. it that it? Season one??

Only 10 episodes. Which qualifies for the shit that annoys me thread.

[neckdeep]

So.. it that it? Season one??

That's also it for that funky early 70's setting. Supposedly, the next season leaps forward into the late 70's disco era. Which, not coincidentally, takes us to the next seismic shift in porn industry, the emergence of the VCR as a consumer product. The VCR takes porn from collecting quarters and makes it into a billions of dollars business for the Mob. No doubt the third season will take us to the point where corporate America moves into the biz to push aside the Mob. Maybe the fourth season should take us full circle to today, where the new technology means porn is barely worth a quarter again. I read somewhere that the typical porn actress gets paid so little now that most of them can't even afford to live in Los Angeles anymore.

[Diamond Joe]

Only 10 episodes. Which qualifies for the shit that annoys me thread.

Well where's the last two then?? There's only been 8 episodes and it hasn't been on the last two Sundays

[Meadow Skipper]

I f’ed up - I don’t know why I wrote 10. There were only 8. Sorry.