'The Deuce' debuts in September on HBO

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The Deuce, the new original series from HBO, addresses the moment when sex became a billion-dollar product in the United States, in which the center of body commerce was the heart of New York.

The name of the series is an allusion to the local slang for the legendary 42nd Street in Times Square. The Deuce follows the growth of pornography culture in New York from the early 70s to the mid 80s. It shows the world of the sex trade in which the revolution, which provided more sexual freedom, and new legal definitions of what was obscene created conditions for the emergence of a billion-dollar industry, which is now a fundamental element of North American culture.

The series shows bar owners, waiters, prostitutes, pimps, police officers and other nightlife characters in a universe of sex, crime and violence, as the pornography business begins to rise from massage parlors and mafia-backed film production companies. until it occupies a space of legitimacy and cultural importance.

Although The Deuce Although it was created as a fiction series, it is the result of a lot of research by producer Marc Henry Johnson, who tells the rise and fall of the sex industry and the functioning of this underworld through the real stories of the lives of two twin brothers. They end up working for the Gambino mob family in the city center and achieve some prominence on their own. These stories – revealed by one of the brothers who passed away a few months before the filming of the pilot episode began – are a fundamental axis of the narrative, expanded with additional research and interviews with other people who participated in this universe.

The first season of The Deuce, consisting of eight episodes, premieres on September 17th, at 9pm, on the channel HBO.

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