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The show’s executive producer, David Simon, creator of The Wire, joined the cast in a recent interview with Charlie Rose. What was said is an insiders look into why entertainment is so terrible these days. That’s because everything is political. We live in the Trump era and that has Hollywood panicking to the point where a show all about porn makes a political statement. “For us, right now, The Deuce is an opportunity to discuss gender politics, which we’ve done very little of,” Simon said. “But as we were filming this, we felt like there was something to be said about the culture of pornography and how it was almost this defining example of unencumbered capitalism.”