re: The Deuce S3 ... (now there are spoilers)

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Emily Meade (Lori). Margarita Levieva (Abigail)

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Emily Meade really grew on me this season. She showed some acting chops.

Margarita Levieva is Eastern European, Russian I think, and she is a stone cold smoke show imho.

The show went deep into Americana this final season, particularly big cities like NYC and LA during the 80s with the AIDs epidemic when all of us know someone who died of AIDs somewhere and then came Rock Hudson and the cat was outta the bag.

But the Debbie Does Dallas scene straight outta the tell all book was classic in E6 ..... I told my wife what was coming when Lori got into the van.

One thing they have done very well in this series is depict some of the real life characters of the time.

Another thing is how they present the clean-up effort from 33rd to 58th Streets up Broadway and 7th. Those were some really rough areas back in the 60s-80s until Koch was tossed and Rudy was elected.

Well that just kinda petered out.

I didnt mind the final scene. It at least gave a nod to some of the older characters. My biggest gripe with this season and its not really a gripe but I was disappointed they didnt include the pimps somehow. Larry had become arguably the best character on the show and I would have liked to see his story go on.

It was overall a really good show, but it was so depressing that I know I will never watch it again. This was the first episode in a while where something nice actually occurred, and it was the very last scene of the series. There was a wedding which are typically pretty nice, but a wedding on The Deuce, which was fitting, had one wedding partner as someone that is %100 going to die.

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That walk at the end was neat to see.

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Reminded me of Survivor shows when they would do a walk past a torch with everyone voted out's name.
But a nice walk down memory lane and a nice way to bring us from the early 70's to present day.

Thought Frankie walking Vince down the subway steps was a nice touch too. It was his time...

I guess I was hoping for some happy endings for some of them but in keeping with reality there was no Hollywood ending. I was really hoping Vince and Abby would work out but didn't think they would.
Except for maybe the wedding of the girl and the black guy with aids there was very little "joyous" moments in the episode (and that was not exactly ideal). In the end it was probably what happened to most folks in that area when they got pushed out. Just scattered to the wind.

I'd be remis if I didn't mention Lori's ending. While not truly shocking it caught me off guard. It happened so fast! I was hoping Candy would take her under her wing but then she had her own issues.

Overall enjoyed the ride. Spending time in NYC starting in the early eighties I can appreciate the transformation and a lot of the characters rang true.

Did the other characters ever acknowledge Lori’s death? She was late for a movie shoot with Candy, then the show just went on. Was there ever a scene where Candy or someone said, “Lori’s dead? OMG”

The Lori character was meh for a while, but I really felt for her this last season. Everyone around her, even after she was a star, was usIng her as much as the pimps did.

CC the pimp was one of my favorites. The guy who played him is a classically trained London actor perhaps best known as Lady Rose’s favorite jazz singer on Downton Abbey. Say what? That chap played the hell out of that pimp character.

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It's all been equal parts morbidly fascinating, weirdly titillating, bleak, nostalgic, etc. Good show but it really darkens your world to watch it.

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This pretty much sums it up. I enjoyed it but I don't think I'll ever rewatch it.

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CC the pimp was one of my favorites. The guy who played him is a classically trained London actor perhaps best known as Lady Rose’s favorite jazz singer on Downton Abbey. Say what? That chap played the hell out of that pimp character.

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I've said it multiple times but not having the pimps in season 3 was the main reason it was my least favorite season. Larry and CC were crazy good characters.

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I was hoping that he would figure out that Tommy Longo was tied up in Frankie's death and that the Greeks were the ones cutting the drugs and causing Frankie to take the fall.

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Did Tommy have anything to do with his death? I thought it was just that made guys son being a wild card and doing that himself?

I mean I know Tommy knew about it afterwards and then obviously killed Rudy but I didn't know Tommy was involved in Frankies death.

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I thought that Tommy had introduced Frankie to the Greeks and was aware that the drugs were being cut too many times before the sale, and knew that Frankie had taken the fall for what the Greeks had done.

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Ah, gotcha. You're right.