HBO: The Deuce (David Simon, Premieres September 10th 2017)

[Simple Torture]

The series premiere is now streaming on HBO Go / HBO Now. Hoping to carve out some time tomorrow to watch it--it's an hour and a half long.

[Jammer XCI]

Is this good?

[The Argonaut]

Yeah, I liked it.

[VinylGuy]

watched the first one, it was good.

[doug rr]

sucked

[bodysnatcher]

ugh, maggie gyllenhaal

she will destroy this show for me if i watch it

[doug rr]

ugh, maggie gyllenhaal

she will destroy this show for me if i watch it

she does

[Monkey_Driven]

watched the first one, it was good.

sucked

Who do I believe?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Monkey_Driven]

watched the first one, it was good.

sucked

Who do I believe?

Did either of these guys like The Wire?

Did either one like Treme?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[doug rr]

hey, it might get better but the first one was pretty bad

[epilogue]

ugh, maggie gyllenhaal

she will destroy this show for me if i watch it

You're breaking my heart, Fredo.

[doug rr]

maggie is like that that lady that dresses up slutty every halloween..its the only role she knows

[Monkey_Driven]

I never watched Treme.

Me either.

[EJ]

I thought the pilot was good. Nice job of capturing early 70s NYC. Not really sure where the show is headed since I've not read anything about it, but I'll definitely be tuning in again.

[Chris_H_2]

i watched both the wire and treme. the pilot on this wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't great either. it was just there. i did really like the 1971 nyc vibe though; they did a nice job with that. but we shall see.

and maggie gyllenhaal's tits are pretty gross.

[bodysnatcher]

everything about maggie gyllenhaal is pretty gross

[run2death]

Yeah, the pilot was decidedly mediocre.

[Simple Torture]

I liked this; I think it has more legs than Treme did when it comes to being a dynamic, fun-to-follow show. Treme was more of a very slow, brooding reflection (but still beautiful in many ways). I think Show Me A Hero is going to be hard to top, though.