HBO’s The Deuce is really a show about gentrification

The Ringer

David Simon’s 1970s-set porn industry drama shows how the grit of Times Square formed the seeds for gentrification. “It’s possible to read The Deuce as an early example of a phenomenon modern American city dwellers are all too familiar with; television’s foremost chronicler of urban life and the systems that govern it has finally given us a show about gentrification,” says Alison Herman. “The Deuce is to the commodification of public space as The Wire was to the war on drugs: a surprisingly accessible, fiercely intelligent, and subtly principled exploration of a macro issue on the most micro of levels.”

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