The Deuce: Season One (1 Viewer)

[The Drifter]

It's not about the Disneyifcation of Times Square, it's about how Vince still remembers how it was back in his heyday and that he still remembers the people that have been forgotten by almost everyone else now.

Maybe I'm just getting more sentimental as I get older but I loved the end. How could Vince walk around the Deuce today and not see all the 'ghosts' of the people that he used to know? The place has changed but the people who've been dead and gone for decades in some cases still left some small mark there. I expected the usual David Simon season/series ending music montage and instead got something really sweet and sad. The exchange between him and Frankie ("You look like shit!") was funny and moving.

Exactly. You've summed up why the last scene(s) of The Deuce's series finale were so perfect.

 

[Steve Armbrust]

I think it's a powerful filmmaker who can get you to feel nostalgic about hookers, pimps, pornography, and the mafia. As much as I liked the show, I wouldn't want New York to return to that. Though to Simon's credit, the show did say that those things don't go away, they just move somewhere else. I exclude the AIDS epidemic here, because you can feel nostalgia and pain for those who were lost to it.

 

[TravisR]

I think it's a powerful filmmaker who can get you to feel nostalgic about hookers, pimps, pornography, and the mafia.

One of the best moves that Simon and company make in every show is humanizing characters that are often portrayed as one dimensional in pop culture. Much like The Wire, The Deuce let you get to know the people of a world that are usually shown (and in the real world, written off) as only being that one thing.