The Deuce(2017)

series - first aired/released 2017-09-10 - audience 7.6

Drama, Crime

Directed by Alex Hall, Ernest R. Dickerson, James Franco, Michelle MacLaren, Minkie Spiro, Roxann Dawson, Steph Green, Susanna White, Tanya Hamilton, Tricia Brock, Uta Briesewitz, Will Ralston, Zetna Fuentes

The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.