Hello everybody and welcome again to the bald move TV podcast the officially unofficial podcast for all of television.

I'm your host Ayrone and I'm Jim.

And today we're going to be talking about The Deuce on HBO episode two of season two there's an art to this

Jim how'd you feel about this episode did you feel attacked when you heard such a on point Italian accent from Big Mike?

Not at all. Is Big Mike the other boss who's moving in on the turf?

No, no, he's the guy that was trying to give...

Oh, forget about it, right, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know you're taking Italian lessons, so it's like, I felt like that was...

That's actually the first thing they teach you is to forget about it.

It's not even Italian just all Italians just just understand it.

They only teach you that here in America.

Actually, I liked it a lot.

It's interesting because I think that first scene of this episode kind of should have been the

season opener because it calls back to the airport scene, at least I think it was an airport, in the first season, which was the series opener, right?

Might have been the bus stop or the train station?

This was like a step down, right?

And it's supposed to show you kind of the slipping of this whole pimp industry.

Just how far it's falling and how the movie industry is kind of usurping it and I feel like it would have been a really great season

opener.

Yeah, I wonder why, because you're right, it would have been, you know, a complete inversion of the scene from last year,

although I guess last year, Lori, the novelty of that is Lori came as a future as an aspiring sex

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