The Deuce

  1. Episode 8 My Name Is Ruby
    The Deuce Season Finale Recap: Too Many Teardrops With the sex trade gone mainstream, who benefits and who suffers?
  2. Episode 7 Au Reservoir
    The Deuce Recap: A Changed World It’s spring of 1972 and the tide has officially turned.
  3. Episode 6 Why Me?
    The Deuce Recap: Ain’t in the Holiday Spirit Winter has finally arrived in New York City.
  4. Episode 5 What Kind of Bad?
    The Deuce Recap: Community Standards “What Kind of Bad?” paints the pimps at their worst.
  5. Episode 4 I See Money
    The Deuce Recap: You Like Movies? Maggie Gyllenhaal gives one of her best performances here.
  6. Episode 3 The Principle Is All
    The Deuce Recap: Playing the Long Game The opening of the Hi-Hat finally brings together this show’s loose collection of characters.
  7. Episode 2 Show and Prove
    The Deuce Recap: Ain’t In Duluth No More “Show and Prove” digs into the complexity of Time Square’s pimps and prostitutes.
  8. Episode 1 Pilot
    The Deuce Series-Premiere Recap: If There’s a Hell Below George Pelecanos and David Simon’s new show is a high-wire balancing act.
  1. Episode 9 Inside The Pretend
    The Deuce Season Finale Recap: No Fixing This World In one of the best illustrations of David Simon’s humanist worldview, the triple effects of money, power, and desire conspire to damage and divide.
  2. Episode 8 Nobody Has to Get Hurt
    The Deuce Recap: Moments of Being Lori makes a decision about her career that has ripple effects.
  3. Episode 7 The Feminism Part
    The Deuce Recap: Breaking the Chain Vincent considers a different sort of life while Officer Flanagan makes some awful choices.
  4. Episode 6 We’re All Beasts
    The Deuce Recap: The Beasts Run Wild Candy experiences some of the highs and lows of guerrilla filmmaking as her film directorial career kicks into gear.
  5. Episode 5 All You’ll Be Eating Is Cannibals
    The Deuce Recap: It All Belongs to Him Rebellion and discontent ripples through the female characters throughout the show, while Abby confronts the moral compromises of her arrangement.
  6. Episode 4 What Big Ideas
    The Deuce Recap: Who Lights the Match? An unexpected death leads to some reflection on who’s to blame.
  7. Episode 3 Seven-Fifty
    The Deuce Recap: Proud of Our Perversions Lori goes to L.A. as C.C. starts to realize his control won’t last forever.
  8. Episode 2 There’s an Art to This
    The Deuce Recap: The Protection They Deserve Candy gets ambitious and Lori starts to imagine a life without C.C. in an episode focusing the series’ women.
  9. Episode 1 Our Raison d’Etre
    The Deuce Season Premiere Recap: Bound for Glory The second-season premiere catches up with our cast of characters in the changing New York of 1977.

The Latest The Deuce News

  1. close reads
    The Deuce’s Final Scene Leaves So Much Unsaid. That’s Why It Works. Every idea the show explored is percolating beneath that flash-forward, in which an old man confronts his past while surrounded by the future.
  2. tv review
    The Deuce Shows Its True Self in Its Final Season The third and final season’s jump to the VHS era sets the stage for a reckoning with the endless churn of American economic history.
  3. trailer mix
    The Deuce Season 3 Trailer Introduces Breakthrough Technology: The VHS Tape The OG pivot to video.
  4. endings happy or otherwise
    HBO’s The Deuce to Finish With Third Season This September Hope you’re up for one more round.
  5. chat room
    Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Deuce, Sex Work, and Falling in Love With Fleabag “I’ve gotten into trouble with sex workers online for saying this, but my fantasy of that life is that it’s got to be numbing.”
  6. the deuce
    The Deuce’s Gary Carr Got to Keep His Pimp Costume “I don’t know that I’ll ever wear any of it.”
  7. it's not tv it's...
    Every HBO Sex Scene Will Now Have Required ‘Intimacy’ Supervision It started with The Deuce.
  8. in conversation
    Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Kindergarten Teacher and Storytelling Through Sex “I’m not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I’m interested in showing what it actually looks like.”
  9. end of the road
    The Deuce Will Get a Third and Final Season We’re going to the ’80s.
  10. theme songs
    Why The Deuce Got a New Theme Song Elvis Costello’s “This Year’s Girl” is a perfect fit for the HBO show.