The Bingeworthy™ Breakdown is an occasional look at new TV shows. An estimated 500 scripted seasons of TV will air in 2018, and to help you sort the wheat from the chaff, we’re going to give you the lowdown to help you work out whether it’s worth tuning in every week for them or waiting to binge later. Today we look at HBO’s just-debuted new season of “The Deuce.”

Season Two of George Pelecanos and David Simon’s “The Deuce” is still about porn in the ’70s, right?
Well, originally, it was about how prostitution branched into porn in the 70s. However, the first season was mostly about prostitution and the pimps that were affected by the onset of porn. Only in the final third did pornography come into the forefront of the plot’s focus.

Weird. Then what is the second season about?
Porn in the ’70s. Oh, and women rising up through the ranks of porn in the ’70s. And disco and the nightclub scene.

Can we get a recap of the first season real quick?
Season One takes us back to early ’70s New York City. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Eileen, a reckless, but fearless, prostitute without a pimp who sheds her Candy persona to enter the emerging adult film industry as a porn star. Once making money legally, Eileen works her way up the ranks to produce her own adult films. Eventually, she essentially steals many of the pimps on the deuce’s main prostitutes and recruits them in porn.

Read the rest of “The Deuce’s” The Bingeworthy™ Breakdown on The Playlist.