The Deuce recap: episode three – truly, David Simon's drama is the best of times

With pimps and leotard-clad women and much talk of Dickens, Vince’s new bar is lighting up Times Square. But will any of our heroes find a way to make porn pay?

Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Deuce on Sky Atlantic in the UK. Please do not add spoilers from later episodes.

If 42nd Street is where the elite meet the underworld, what better place to do it than in the Hi Hat. Everyone was there for the opening night of Vince Martino’s bar – Rodney, Larry Brown and Rudy Pipilo, Frankie, Abby and Darlene – and it’s fair to say the joint was jumping. Where else could you discuss Dickens, debate the means of production in the sex industry and have a pistol waved in your face by a 6’5” ginger? Truly, it was the best of times.

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