BEg2 chapter 5 - Sleazy old Deuce

[Allen Ruch]

I know David Simon ain't for everybody, but HBO ran three seasons of his show, "The Deuce," a fictional romp through the sleazy world of Times Square our hero Maxine is recalling here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deuce_(TV_series)

I liked it a lot—Maggie G is phenomenal—but like many white male Gen-Xers, I fall into the tedious camp of "The Wire was the greatest TV show of all tiiiiiiime!"

—Quail

PS: Spoiler alert: I am a white middle-aged male. A shocking exception to this List, no?



On 11/27/21, 12:38 AM, "Pynchon-l on behalf of Michael Bailey" <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org on behalf of michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

    “The sleazy old Deuce she remembers from
                her less responsible youth is so no more,”


    A) a la Friends, where they’re always saying “something is so not [this or
    that]

    B) and, it is “so” - ie, “like that” - no longer.
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