David Simon is coming back to HBO with a new show. If that sentence doesn’t mean anything to you, then perhaps you need to get acquainted with “The Wire” and “Treme” immediately, and then you’ll see why “The Deuce” is one of our most anticipated TV shows the year.
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Starring James Franco, in dual roles, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, the drama will take audiences into the early days of porn in the 1970s to the mid-1980s. Franco will be playing mob-friendly brothers Vincent and Frankie Martino, with Gyllenhaal as Candy, a hooker turned porn performer.
The talent behind this one is huge, with Richard Price (“The Wire,” “The Night Of”) part of the writing staff, and Michelle MacLaren (“Breaking Bad”) directing the pilot. We’ll find out what Simon and co. have cooked up when the show debuts on September 10th.