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The Deuce – Season 2, Episode 8 Nobody Has to Get Hurt

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The Deuce – Season 2, Episode 8

Nobody Has to Get Hurt

Aired Oct 28, 2018

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Rudy and Matty the Horse buy Lori away from C.C.; Ashley is warned about the dangers of her aggressive activism; Goldman shares his plans for cleaning up the Deuce with Alston; Vincent turns to his father for relationship advice.

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A dark cloud of death looms over "Nobody Has to Get Hurt," leaving viewers waiting with bated breath throughout this penultimate episode of The Deuce.

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Scott Tobias

New York Times

10/29/2018

These decisions the Martinos make are significant - to not kill and to kill - but their having gotten to this point is even more so.

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Paul MacInnes

Guardian

10/29/2018

Perhaps because all the emphasis put on the main plot thread, the rest of this week's episode was a bit piecemeal.

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Vikram Murthi

New York Magazine/Vulture

10/29/2018

4/5

The Deuce is filled with characters whose willful behavior knowingly haunts them, but they power through anyway. Desire can't be tamed, no matter how hard you try.

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Jacob Oller

Paste Magazine

10/29/2018

8.6/10

The way director Tanya Hamilton puts these scenes together, with dread mounting again and again after the cold open pistol-whips us with that mobster mentality, means we're always a little on edge.

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Synopsis

Rudy and Matty the Horse buy Lori away from C.C.; Ashley is warned about the dangers of her aggressive activism; Goldman shares his plans for cleaning up the Deuce with Alston; Vincent turns to his father for relationship advice.

Director: Tanya Hamilton
Creator: George Pelecanos, David Simon
Executive Producer: George Pelecanos, David Simon, James Franco, Nina Kostroff-Noble
Screenwriter: George Pelecanos
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 28, 2018