Tragic Kingdom

Tragic Kingdom
David Simon's The Deuce and the Disneyfication of porn
By Niela Orr
The Baffler

'Simon told Market Watch that despite its premise about the Times Square sex industry in the early seventies, the show is actually “a critique of market capitalism—the idea that the unencumbered market is anything more than a tool for building mass profit.” It’s not, he said, “a blueprint for building society.”'