Brwned
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New HBO series by David Simon about the porn industry in the '70s. Just stumbled upon it...anyone seen it? Getting good reviews.
The Guardian said:One of the key factors that hobbled The Wire’s popularity during its early seasons was the difficulty of keeping its massive cast straight; The Deuce has the benefit of boasting a few name-brand actors impossible to forget, but even so, it does not demand such a high price of admission to its absorptive world. Writing unencumbered by the jargon of police work or Show Me A Hero’s bureaucratic government lingo, Simon has created his most accessible work of humanism to date, and he’s done so without sacrificing his loftier ambitions of societal critique. (An instant-favorite monologue exposes Nixon’s Vietnam doctrine as pimping under the guise of policy.) “All the pieces matter” is another one of Simon’s classic axioms, and even before his new creations have fully come into focus, he’s re-convinced us of the statement’s truth.