The Deuce
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Or at least theyre trying to be.
There are no protagonists, let alone heroes.
Shell use that cachet to raise money for her next film and the next one after that.
Its only when she returns to her mothers house that Eileens sunny veneer finally collapses.
Her father has returned and bars her from seeing Adam because of her name-brand recognition.
Adam, sporting a black eye surely provided by playground assholes, silently watches the scene from his room.
Meanwhile, Frankie takes the job of informing Lori that C.C.
is dead and cannot bother her again even if he wanted to.
One more abuser is dead and cant hurt her anymore.
Its perfectly ironic that her sob-laughs are scored to O.V.
Wrights Dont Take It Away, neatly capturing her divided response.
Outside of the film industry, bad news plagues the streets.
Naturally, this news dominates and affects just about everyone.
You know, pretending.
But shit, once you start letting a girl inside the pretend, its over, aint it?
Larry, having put all his chips into acting, accepts these words the best he can.
He was only a good pimp insofar as how well he played the role.
only for Loretta to respond perceptively that the world is bigger than anything they were trying to accomplish.
The other murders involve minor characters, but their deaths still resonate.
What happens if he stops liking Bobby, or Frankie, or Abby, or Vincent?
What happens if he keeps using Black Frankie as hired muscle against his own team?
Though Vincent gives Bobby shit for fretting about this and not the fact that he murdered C.C.
no less than a week ago, he later concedes hes right.
Yet, Goldman lets him in on a little secret: Alston doesnt need to clean up The Deuce.
Hell, he doesnt even need to clean up his department.
He just needs to toe the line and confirm it doesnt get any worse.
The money will soon come pouring in and hell kick every degenerate off the island soon enough.
Sheet rock and cranes are the biggest catalysts for change, after all.
We can be better, you know?
Maybe they will be heroes.
But it takes work and conviction.
They might not be assholes, but theyre not good people either.
you could never be sure, right?
