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    Porn, prostitutes and heart on HBO’s The Deuce

    by Daniel D’Addario Sep 30, 2017 2 minutes
    New York the hard way: Pernell Walker, James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Deuce

    PRESTIGE TELEVISION IS, IN THE main, notable for its seriousness of purpose and for its grimness. But what’s most exciting about HBO’s new drama The Deuce may well be its lightness.

    Which isn’t to say the series isn’t ambitious. The show is set in early-1970s Times Square and assays the lives and livelihoods of bartenders, prostitutes, pimps and cops at a time when

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