Among the series to be discovered in the fall: The Deuce on HBO, available from September 11th. Here's why we're expecting it:

1. Because it is signed by David Simon

After the very cult The wire, Treme and the tremendous miniseries show me a hero - with Oscar Isaac, released in 2015 - a creation by David Simon is always an event. The pope of the modern series has imposed his vision, given to seeing territories banned from screens (the drug trafficking quarters of Baltimore in The Wire) and built his narratives with the demands of a novelist. This former journalist has the demand for truth, which he has mixed with sinuous, radical and luminous fictions that have changed our vision of America.

2. Because it analyzes a sexual revolution

With The Deuce, David Simon and his co-author, the writer George Pelecanos, focused on a period, the early 1970s, when pornography came to light, where sexual imagery was no longer hidden but became ubiquitous in the American landscape. "This is the pivotal moment when pioneers will create a genuine, newly legal industry," explains Pelecanos. The deuce offers a dive into this paradigm between capitalism and labor: how money flows, who has power and who does not, who is exploited and who is not. »The pornography seen by Simon: sex, power and commerce.

3. Because James Franco has two roles

It is our favorite Hollywood touch-all: actor, director, painter at his hours, and even specialist of American literature. But James Franco has never shone in a series: 22.11.63, where he traveled in the past in pursuit of the future assassin of John F. Kennedy, proved disappointing. The deuce offers him the opportunity to re-create himself, and as he interprets twin bosses of a doubtful bar who improvise film producers X, the calculation is simple and to our advantage: two James Franco for the price of one . The very singular and too rare Maggie Gyllenhaal is also part of the distribution, as a complex prostitute.

4. Because it explores the New York of the 70s

We thought we would arrive at saturation so much in recent years, aesthetics seventies, collars crane and legs of efont invaded the world of the series: the record industry in Vinyl, the birth of hip-hop with The get down, the world of the stand up of I'm dying up here, or the drug cartels in Narcos and the extreme left-wing activists in Guerrilla ... This time we can count
on the still profoundly political vision of David Simon to deliver the ultimate and definitive variation on this mythical decade. After him the deluge: we can move on to the 80s.

"The deuce" series by David Simon and George Pelecanos, starring James Franco, Amber Skye Noyes and Maggie Gyllenhaal, from September 10 on OCS.