David Simon is being held at an altar. Quite well deserved, on the other hand, is the world of television’s reverence for the Baltimore author. Their series draw attention, are dense and tell a world that we didn’t know we were so interested in. But it’s also true that it feels bad to be in such high esteem because his style gets greedy, sailing in a sea of vanity that can frighten away. Once this first season is over, I have to confess that I have been beaten little by little.
‘The Deuce’ is a luxurious series and it seems paradoxical because of the fact that it deals with the holes where New York’s unwanted end up. But it’s luxurious you porn because of the names that sign it, because at HBO they trust David Simon and George Pelicanos to simmer a story about a subject as taboo as the sex industry. One of the environments in which the US has been a step behind in terms of visibility with respect to most of Europe.