The Deuce Pilot (2017– ) watch online HD

I truly did. It caught me by surprise that HBO decided to release the pilot early. I guess they wanted to use the boom of the GoT season finale to boost one of their new shows. But "The Deuce" is its own thing. We don't need no dragons.

I am not from New York, but you can tell the series team put a lot of effort on creating the right environment and it really pays off. Maggie Gyllenhaal is terrific on this role, I loved her. The storyline is great, too, and I really enjoyed the different people and how they end up interacting with each other. I can't wait to see how they all end up connecting. I am usually quite skeptical when it comes to hour and a half episodes, but this one was phenomenal. It didn't feel long in any moment and the 70s prostitution theme has so much potential it could become literally anything.

The one bad thing about the pilot is that, by releasing it early, now we have to wait three weeks for a new episode. Damn it you HBO.

After just one episode of The Deuce, I can do nothing but say that David Simon seems incapable of creating bad shows. The Deuce is a visually stunning show with great performances from every single actor. The dialogue is fantastic as well. It nails the feeling of 70's New York, or at least what I imagine it would feel like.

As of this moment, I cannot find a single thing in the first episode of The Deuce I don't like. This will probably be my new favorite ongoing show. I hope it will get renewed for as long as David Simon feels he can create good content, and not a single episode longer.

The streets were too clean, the cars were all the latest models, buffed and polished for a floor show, the costumes were perfectly pressed and fitted (even on the supposedly poor kids) and the sets looked like, well, sets.

The dialogue was all cleaned up without any feel for the street nor any convincing NYC accents (MG's was particularly affected), all politically correct and safe.

For someone like David Simon, whose grittiness and realism are second to none (The Wire especially) this has to rank as a major disappointment.

I didn't believe it was 1971 for a second, I believed it was a bunch of actors dressed up as 1970s characters spouting non-period dialogue on a bunch of sets dressed up with 1970s props and store signs.

In order for this show to work, I have to feel like I have been time- warped...I did, but not to NYC 1971...to Hollywood 2017

P.S. Tug McGraw was a relief pitcher he rarely started a Mets Game. Symbolic of the necessary details this show badly lacks.

So far, "The Deuce" has done about everything right. It's a show about sex, sure, but it's also about unregulated capitalism and the pilot in particular explored some interesting issues regarding prostitution.

"The Deuce" avoids the easy genre trope of painting a one- dimensional picture of prostitutes. It would have been easy to show all these girls as nothing but victims who break down crying all the time, but the reality is more nuanced than that. This is highlighted by a scene in which a fat man suddenly attacks a prostitute and appears to rape her. Later, we find out he paid for that fantasy (which probably won't make her feel much better). He even apologises for going too hard on her, although he does so in a way that implies she was responsible for it. This multi-layered twist is just one example of how sex work is more complicated than it is sometimes portrayed.

Another stand-out scene for me is when Candy is paid to give a boy who has just reached the age of consent birthday sex. After a premature ejaculation, he's disappointed to find out he'll have to pay again for another round. Candy uses a very good analogy to explain: this is just business. She isn't his girlfriend, she has no emotional attachment to him, all that matters to her is the money she gets at the end of the day. A hard truth for the boy to stomach, the forces of supply and demand.

Another great scene that exposes the raw truth of this is near the end, when C.C. slashes Ashley's armpit. She, like the birthday boy, thought, or wanted to think, that this was more than strictly business. She wanted to think that C.C. took a special liking to her. This was a nasty reminder that everyone exists to serve the invisible hands, and only the people at the top, the pimps, benefit. In that sense, it's not just about prostitution, it's about capitalism in general (in the creator's perspective anyway). This is the one scene in the pilot episode that shows the girls at their most vulnerable. The effect of not showing it in every minute of the episode is that when it's truly necessary to show it in order to make a point, it works.

All of this is great, but I can't ignore that this episode is just too long. It's one thing to give time to introduce all the characters, but so many scenes are stretched out longer than necessary, which has the effect of reducing the punchiness of the episode as a whole.

Notes: -Focus on the unflattering nudity of the fat guy shows the less than glamorous reality of prostitution. -Not only the sex industry uses sex to sell. Vincent didn't see a problem with using the waitresses' bodies to increase tips. But hey, money is all that matters, right? -Capitalism isn't just enslaving the girls. It's keeping Vincent from his family.

At some point while watching this you ask yourself... why am I subjecting myself to this. I made it about 60% the way through before I finally had it.

The whole thing is flat. Just one persistent depressing note droning on and on. I am not sure if the problem is in the script, the direction, acting... maybe everyone had food poisoning. I don't know.

I expected more. This came from the writers of the Wire and Treme. Between them they had writing credits on Homicide, generation kill and Bosch. The director had worked on game of thrones (some good episodes) and breaking bad.

As the pilot relentlessly trudged on... I wondered why I didn't like it. The complete lack of humour perhaps.

Then I realized it didn't matter. It was just not good.

It's not terrible but it's the kind of thing actors seem to do every so often to show they can be "gritty and real" that they then inflict on the poor audiences many of whom will convince themselves they like it because they are supposed to for some reason.

how can anybody give this piece of junk a positive review. Franco is narcissistic, how much does this guy love himself,seriously i am 70 years old and was in times square in the 6o's 70's et al and it was not at all like portrayed. and c'mon past posting at Monticello? no bookmaker in his right mind would take a bet at that track let alone a large one as portrayed in the clip. i watched for 25 minutes and could not take it anymore just too campy and toooo much Franco,for crying out loud let someone have a job to play his brother.