The Deuce

Get into the gritty and decadent world of New York's Times Square in the 1970s, as the business of pleasure begins its climb to become a billion-dollar industry in this drama series from the creative team behind The Wire and Treme. Seizing the chance to cash in on the rapidly growing flesh industry (and sometimes being consumed by it) are a vivid assortment of characters, including: Vincent Martino (James Franco), a bartender with vision and connections and his freewheeling twin Frankie (Franco again); Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a self-made sex worker eyeing a new career in porn filmmaking; pimps C.C. (Gary Carr) and Larry Brown (Gbenga Akinnagbe); young prostitutes Darlene (Dominique Fishback) and Lori (Emily Meade); midtown cop Chris Alston (Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.); newspaper reporter Sandra Washington (Natalie Paul); mob capo Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli); and disillusioned college student Abby Parker (Margarita Levieva).

Season 1
Get into the gritty and decadent world of New York's Times Square in the 1970s, as the business of pleasure begins its climb to become a billion-dollar industry in Season 1 of this drama series from the creative team behind The Wire and Treme.

Season 2
Season 2 of this dark, gritty series that follows the interconnected stories of barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, police, actors, producers and mobsters. Five years after Season 1, the Deuce's backroom massage parlors and SRO hotels have exploded into sprawling emporiums, featuring live sex shows and peep booths for every imaginable fetish.

Season 3
It's 1985 and the party of the '70s is slowing down. 42nd Street has deteriorated into a hive of crime and seedy video stores and peep shows, VHS has overtaken film as porn's primary medium, and the AIDS epidemic has had a devastating impact. Welcome to the third and final season of The Deuce, the gritty HBO series that follows the interconnected lives of various characters working the trade in Times Square.