HBO Porn Drama: Female Gaze On Sex
Amy Zimmerman writes: ‘ HBO’s next big drama, “The Deuce,” has undeniable swagger. Set in an era before Ubers and Bloomberg’s big cleanup, the ’70s-set series — which premieres in September — meanders and pimp walks—literally—through Manhattan and Brooklyn. The camera doesn’t jump to different characters and scenes so much as it passes between them, flowing between bartenders and patients, prostitutes and johns, police officers and drug dealers and NYU students buying street corner speed. There’s a tension between this laid-back gait and the threat of violence that’s really pacing the pilot—the fear, for the characters as well as the viewers—of the big bad lurking beyond the next street corner.’
