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My girl Alexis is not here. She's up in Atlanta. So shout out to you. I was not here for the past two weeks. I was actually on the east coast in Boston and So cold. Oh my God. So yeah, I'm your host Lisa Sharma thien I'm holding it down today. So bear with me I'm going to try not to ramble your ear off if you're listening and if you're watching, you know, I'm everywhere. We're on Spotify iTunes YouTube all that good stuff. Okay, so I'm sad because this was a tough episode, but before we go and I just want to say we have some news and gossip. We have our awesome special segment where we highlight a bomb. Um as porn movie and I'm just happy to be here. It's sad that I have we have only two episodes left of the deuce the series finale. Oh my gosh. I'm just going to start. First of all the chat is open you guys. I'm going to pop it up right now. Where are you at? Okay, there you are. Okay. So the chats open. Oh, there's like six people and oh, wow. It's already popping Okay, cool, so I'm very upset. Lori committed suicide and if you guys are tuning in sorry, I don't want to spoil anything. But this is a recap of episode 7 called that's a wrap so much has taken place. I want to talk about the last two really briefly because I caught up with the last two I want to say two days ago and I'm surprised Tony killed Ruby. No Rudy and Mike has HIV and is dying and all these things. And I did not at all. Thank Laurie would commit suicide. Here's the thing. We're going to talk about that because I'm going to leave that to the end because that's the most beefiest topic but I was rooting for her. I really really really wanted Eileen to come through and Eileen or candy, whatever you go by I'm kind of disappointing you because you know what that girl was going through and you didn't see if I feel like you were just you were to settle with her. But okay you guys I do want to acknowledge. Wow, our chat. We have see artists saying this episode. We yes, I think Lori could have overcame this nephew Charming Chucky. Oh my gosh, Michael Eloy was tired of everything poor girl. You guys, I love how we're having so much chat in the chat room right now, but let's start off. Here's the thing. Let's start off with Paul and Todd. So Todd died and I will say this because I wasn't here last week. I love how Todd really put the family together. No Paul put the family together because Todd had Ain't seen his parents for decades. That's major for me to just give Todd that closure. Even though Todd was so sick didn't really even get to realize it's his parents and now Paul is being you know AIDS activists in this epidemic that's going on and we see him really fighting and I think he has a older gay friend. We see the scene of him playing the piano with him and all of that saying all my friends are Ed and all of that and then Paul is not getting tested because Paul knows he has HIV or Aids he knows that it's already developed to that. He's like, I've Been Everywhere twice. I've Been Everywhere I already know I have it I'm gonna die which is so hard you guys like these people they're like dying like every five seconds every 10 seconds. It's happening so fast and you know producer friend of mine, you know just recently told me that it's because it's happening so fast, there's even no time to talk about it kind of like, The plague back in the day, so I want to talk about that how I think Paul's purpose right now in life is just to do something about this epidemic and his his friends said You Gotta Die screaming You Gotta Die screaming. You can't like go. So we see him in the jail scene. We see him, you know smoking a cigarette kind of resembling that okay, you guys beat me up, but I'm still here and Mike has 8 as well, and he So a cabin that Vincent set up for him, which was so beautiful and I think Vincent was so connected to him as a friend that he was so emotional and it was crying. But you know what Mike has no regrets his like I drink from the cup in this lifetime. I drink from the cup. I don't regret anything and his dying too and it's so sad to see people like this and for me, I know me and Alexis had predictions about this before we did feel like Like Mike or any of the people that we assume that were having sex with men would have contracted it and they did so that's not that would Paul and Todd and all of that so unfortunate and it's just so sad that they were grateful for all of the experiences that they had like, Mike was saying I had this girl I don't regret anything with her. It's my life and it's just heartbreaking. But okay before I continue on My different list of topics today it is again me I'm holding it down the chats up. I do want to mention that we are so thankful here for AfterBuzz TV. 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He was trying to provide for his family and he said I don't want to deal with drugs the bang would Frankie and Tommy Tommy was look this is the future if we're not going to sell drugs. We're going to dry up. We're not going to have money and I really feel like that's what got franking to shit. He started dealing with that Italiano guy all that stuff. All that Mafia it was unnecessary part for him to die man and Vincent killed the kill the shooter to I killed a young kid. It's just when I caught up with these episodes. I'm like what has happened Vincent. Like here's the thing you you're the Lost Abby will talk about that but your actions and you go home with a gun and you know, how Abby is freaking out about that. It's just it's such an unfortunate way to die and you die on the streets and this is the dues as much as Goldman and all of that. Try to clean up the streets this underlying Mafia Black Market shit. It's still going to take place you guys. Okay, so my chats pop and I do want to really look into this right now Cornelia. Love you girl. She was like, I agree about Tommy. He's just a Thug Type. Yeah, you know and it's so true. And why did you have to kill Rudy? Like he was still your partner? Like he? Yeah, he gave me some shit but his like double your age, you know, and I am ver o is saying Paul should have told the hospital he was Todd's Brother, that's the way people did that was bad writing. Okay, that's very cool. Come back. And then Michael Lee said this is why I still did guess for you. Olivia. Benson would have rescued Lori told her worth exactly. Oh my gosh helped her with all her problems. We will get to that. I'm so upset. I candy like you don't just say here's a credit card. You should have said stay the night with me. Say the week with me. Let's talk about this. Maybe I can give you a producer gig. You know, you don't need to go have sex anymore for money and all of that like you have to save this little girl. You should have held her hand so sad and so that's the situation. I feel about Tommy and Rudy it was an unnecessary way for Moody to die in the street with the money and everything. It's and you know, what even though Vincent's falling for a Tommy. I think Vincent knows deep down that Tommy has something to do with Rudy dying. Okay, you guys so Vincent and Abby me and my girl Alexis if you're watching right now, we did predict that Abby is going to bounce from Vincent. Here's the thing. She's going through this whole lesbian situation right now. And I love that you explore yourself have sex with a girls do all that and I know that wasn't going to be consistent. Like I know she was exploring herself as a woman. But here's the thing. You're not there for a Vincent Vincent said, where are you? My brother just died. Mike is die. Where the hell are you? You're not next to me. I'm stress it. You know, Abby is holding it down at the bar and props to add me for even holding it down in that community meeting with gold with what's his name, you know the community guide Goldman or whatever was I have it right here. He basically trying to fix the city and all that right, but you know what Abby's like look all your contributions are not going to help the lower class the lower class get poor the rich get rich. We all know that right now and she's He's just taking a very personal but here's the thing go back home to Vincent and try to be there try to be there for him. Especially when her girlfriend comes to the bar and kind of tracks her down and says, hey, you're not coming to my show. She feels it that Abby's loyal trying to work things out with Vincent, but she found the gun you guys see I'm a very very cautious like rule Law Abiding Citizen and I wouldn't want to have that gun in my house. So I understand. And I totally understand that Abby left Vincent for that. But you know, it's like that was like kind of strike one before like Vincent did say I will hide the gun. I'll get rid of the gun his stupid. He hides the gun up in the Shelf where she's I guess doing some photography right now. So it's like, of course she finds he finds the gun. That's like we're goddess of the issue and I honestly feel like she did the right thing but Abby, it's like you're not in the moment right now with Vincent you No, your guy just lost her twin brother his twin brother Vincent goes to his ex-wife or Comfort which we got to talk about this. So they're having sex whatever they had a good time and the ex-wife says something about you know, we're older now or like teapots the teapot fell broke blah blah blah. I feel like we can really hold it down together and maybe start over and I think it was so funny when since like or we can just buy a new teapot and then the wife ex-wife goes, you know, it can't Work if you're someone second-favorite or if you're someone second choice like to make love work that person has to be that other person's First Choice. You know what I mean? You guys might chat? Oh my God. So Cornelia saying the gun and the dark side Vincent fell into was too much for a be absolutely County never really had any empathy true empathy for anyone true that Cornelia and yeah, so happy packs up her bags, you know Vincent comes home and Vincent sees that you know what I'm Messed up you found the bat you found the gun. She even placed the gun in the middle of the table. And if you guys caught this at the bar, is it just me. I know my homeboy Mo will tell me tomorrow on Twitter George pelecanos the Creator and writer of the show made a little Cameo appearance in the bar. So he said hey, can I have another beer now if you guys are like really Deuce fans, please let me know is was that George was that like a cute little Scene he did it was where Abby's girlfriend came in to ask. You know, where have you been yourself am IA and then George says, hey girl, you know Harry. Hey bartender. I need a another refill. So that's George. I think that's so cool. Because I think was it Hitchcock that did that I think that's Hitchcock that would cameos who was it? I know it was Hitchcock, but that just so cool as like a writer or director to do that. Just so fly and Cornell. We agreed with me and said I love that whole teacup analogy it. Was amazing, but my I mean Vincent you are such a d IC K course like all you buy a new teak teacup or whatever. That is not cool. Yeah. Okay. So Michael says that was pelecanos. Yes. Oh my God. I knew it. I knew it. Yes. That's so cool. Okay, um, man, Abby. You know, what good for you Abby and also good for you for standing up for your community, but you are worth so much more like you are a book nerd just like me. Your house is filled with books. You are well rested. You're intelligent leave the deuce, like I know you want to help this community. But like are you thinking about your life? Do you want marriage one day do you want kids one day? I just I look at the show character per character and I just want everyone to have growth and right now from me, I think Abby did a very very good move on her aunt Tilly Vincent. I'm so sorry. She can do way better than Vincent. Even though his gorgeous. I mean James James Franco just fine, but you know what, I mean? Okay, and yes, Cornelius said Hitchcock did the cameos awesome? Okay. Now I want to talk about Lori. I want to talk about candy and Eileen and all of that. But before I do I do want to say that one main thing Goldman his gay. We all know that he's gonna get a divorce. I hope I'm saying his name right? I know it's Goldman. I have it written down right here. I don't want Mess it up. That would be so embarrassing. Yeah, Gene Goldman. Okay, so he's been cheating on his wife and he did say that his using production project condoms. Yeah, all that protection, but the wife knows has your kids are leaving the house. I'm going to be alone. What do I do? Finally, he takes the stand I respect Eugene get a divorce let your wife move on. I love you for that. Even though I still think his sick. I feel like something's gonna come about Okay. Now we are talking about candy and all of that. So Lori ends up firing Kiki because Kiki is not a good Agent not listening to your client. You know, he doesn't want to get gang-raped you guys Lori seemed was her having sex would like six seven guys. I mean not to mention all the STDs had to be contracted even though they're safe. Whatever Greg is an asshole. Greg is not a good boy. Friend nor manager and finally you fire both of them. So Lori is scraping for money to come back to New York, you know goes to this little bar tries to borrow money from the owner, you know taking rides ends up passing by her childhood home, which was so heartbreaking and she looks at the house. It's all gated up. Who knows what went down who knows why this beautiful little girl ended up coming here and being a prostitute and all of that. That attracting all these bad men like CC like obviously daddy issues like on another level but so she comes back to New York and ends up calling candy and says look, I need a job. I need money to say candy for her selfish needs for her movie to get funded says what about let's use Lori Madison to be in this movie again poor Lori having nowhere to go. Nothing to do ends up saying. Okay cool. I'll be in one or movie because you know why? I'm only a porn star. It's so sad that You thinks this is her only identity you guys and they don't know better. It's easy for me. It's easy from the side judge here at me. Like why can't you go enroll in high school or whatever and get your GED or whatever. It is. Like Dominique did or like Donna did these people don't know better. Like they're not like their minds are not that open. They're not up to that intellect to be like I can save myself or why couldn't you go to Abby Abby knew a lot of you know former prostitutes that are doing community service who Are helping other women other victims, like I wish you just I wish you'd just kind of like held on just for a few more days. So what happened was candy basically gave her credit card. I said get a hotel room candy. Why couldn't you know what I'm gonna say Eileen because kandy's her porn name Eileen you are a female director right now. You're dating this rich-ass Wall Street, dude. Okay, you're doing well. Why couldn't you be like, you know, Lori stay with me for a week, please like I know you're doing cocaine. I know you're gonna go out and get some dick tonight for Honey, why are you doing that? Excuse my language? It's just getting me so upset. Like why couldn't you invite this little girl in and you know, you guys so Eileen gave us an insight to why she was a prostitute. So I guess she was 14 15. She got pregnant her dad took her to get an abortion and drove off so did all of this is in the story and Harvey sees that this is why you know Eileen is who she is. Shout out to Maggie Gyllenhaal. This is your best work. Gap you shared that to you are so diverse. You're so amazing your ranges beyond your incredible actor and I don't want to quote this. I don't want to say this. I don't know if the deuce was nominated for an Emmy at the for the past three years you guys. I mean the Emmy TV Team all of that this show should have been recognized because the acting and writing is just amazing, but I'm disappointed in candy because so Lori goes out on the street that night ask the street hooker. Says who's your boss finds out Stars trick and finds his loser guy. The guy says what's your name for once finally she says her real name. It was Sarah. They go in bed. They do it doggy style. I know I'm very descriptive and you know, she sees herself in the mirror. That's when she just hates her life. She was like, what am I doing right now? I'm back here a decade later where I started with Cece. And that moment you guys that's when she knew she was gonna kill herself. The guy leaves she sits on her bed takes out her Coke. She was going to do one more line. She doesn't do it here. I am in my mind so naive I'm like, oh my God, she's gonna go to rehab she's going to change her life. She gets out her credit card. She puts it on the on the dresser with the $40. She made she gets the gun. She was at her brains. I was so shocked. I got goosebumps. It's just we were waiting for you. You to have that self worth of a moment for you to leave the stupid career of yours. Okay, the chats like popping. Hold up Cordelia saying it was so sad that she couldn't tell Kandi her real name, but she told the John and the car Sarah at least we got to know her name before she killed herself. Absolutely. The next day Eileen is waiting for her. But you know, what something is off Eileen know something. She sent everyone home that day. I think she knows she's waiting for yes, that's never gonna come. She was waiting for someone that already lost herself. And the Cornelio said to me Abby is a person who wants to connect it to others and help others, but she's just not a warm person. She's not open very true at all. Absolutely. Not man you guys. Yeah, so so she kills herself and I was shocked to I didn't expect Lori to pull out the gun. I you guys so much go. Intention and here I am thinking Vincent was probably going to kill herself. I'm kill himself, but no it was Laurie because she thought she had nothing else going for her. And this is the life of the woman and you know also the talk about Shana former pornstar had dinner with with Eileen to talk about funding and having a role in her movie and this girl said, you know what I'm just a gilded up like I'm I'm someone that's probably trapped in a million-dollar house because my Husband said if he marries me, I can't do anything like this anymore. So it's your stigma you carry it with you. You can't be an ex-porn star basically like it's you did it you brush it off and you start over and I wish I wish Lori knew that such an excellent actress. Shout out to you Emily. You are awesome the whole cast all of that. Give me shelter said I rewound I rewind that part 5 times. She was so resolved in that decision. I'm devastated we Are very devastated right now? I don't know man. First first Frankie. Now this now Mike like everyone's dying Alston. We find out has a nice backup in his position. He can't get fired. I love that his just firm as someone who was a black cop and the day I love how Goldman said, he's Untouchable. We can't fire him everyone trying to fight for this town. But you know one thing I do want to add before we go to our special segment all of that. I love the relationship between black Frankie Joey and the dad all of that. It's just so funny when black Frankie is sharing with them about how he was in jail, and he killed this this this man that was annoying him. He's like stand up to Tommy and say look these girls have beepers now they are running their own whorehouses from their houses or from hotels. They don't need pimps anymore. I love how black Frankie and Joey and Bobby they're like eating together and you guys Like Frankie is a gorgeous. He is a gorgeous man, and I just I wrote down a lot of quotes and stuff from this episode and just one of them but I do want to share that really, you know stood out to me one was when Vincent ex-wife says. Nobody wants to be someone second choice that never works. That's so true. We've all been there. It's like do not be an option. Okay. So I love love love when Eileen says every woman has a price tag. Back to her fact, so true even in today in 2019 in Hollywood you do as a woman. Everyone has a price tag and it I think that to as a woman and especially females and the scene where she goes to have lunch with that female director and you know, she sees how degrading that waitress was treated like, hey girl stand here. Hey girl stand there and the girls like I'm working for tips. I'm going to do whatever these guys say, and then a funny line is when The porn star director says to Lori every bang needs a gang. That's so sad, but it's funny and then you know Shauna the X porn starts telling Eileen. I'm just a woman living in a gilded cage so sad so sad but the writing is incredible. So I just had to share. Okay, so I think that's a wrap for like as far as the beefiest up from the show a lot of the predictions that I thought came true. I knew Abby was going to kill Her I know Lori was going to kill herself. I think I told Alexis two weeks ago and next week is the series finale episode 8 and Alexis will be here and we'll share our thoughts and talk about it. It's just how devastating how like people's life did not get better. This shows that life is not easy people don't you know find sometimes the silver lending or they don't like they don't have Epiphany and have a good life. Some people just have a bad life all throughout their life and they're dying like, you know, fully Every two seconds and not everyone has a hero not everyone is a hero not everyone finds themselves like Lori, we just saw and yeah, that was a lot to talk about but I am oh yeah. Michael said it's I want to cut both CC and Laurie killed themselves, man. Let's talk about right now the special segment you guys and the chat still open if you guys want to comment I'm looking but today's special segment and we pick a movie once a week, which is a good porn star movie to watch like a porn film in the 80s. The one I came across like the music. Wow. There you go. Look at that all that ass. It's called blame it on Ginger. Okay, 1986 Vivid Productions you guys Vivid is so pretty hot today. It's a very very popular porn movie Distribution Company. And yeah, this is called blame it on Ginger and basically it's a movie that features Ginger Lynn and it's not really featuring gingers. It's the story of a chick who has a nerd of a boyfriend and because she doesn't want to be embarrassed with his presence around her friends. She comes up with a story that the guy is packaged and he is a fool of a bull in bed not packaged packaging that is a bull in bed. Of course, that's not true. But it's enough to put in motion a series of not events taking place over the eight scenes that are well link between them with good acting from porn stars like Peter North Barbara Dre and Rebecca Lynn. It's a Vivid Entertainment production that came out in 86 I wasn't born yet. And get this it features an ending when Ginger and Barbara jerking off Peter North to come in their mouth and they come kiss. Okay guys, so that's the very graphic description. I did not write that Mom. I hope you're not watching this and this is the top all-time all-time porn will be so check it out you guys and you know Vivid doesn't bomb-ass job. So that's that for our special segment and let's pop it open for some news and gossip you guys so I was doing some research on Maggie Gyllenhaal love you, you are epic and the show so for et, Canada, she basically talks about how this is her best work yet and she was so sad to let go of this role and how you know, she really wants the audience to take away how long things have not changed in the industry and you know, James Franco did get hit with a lot of stuff this year and last year, but the the new I want to share about her is if you guys can't get enough of her she's going to be the new voice of audible. I love audible. I love to listen to audio books when I'm driving just like podcasts and all of that and Maggie will be the new face of that and she is going to be no narrate a few things which is so cool. Right? I mean you guys books knowledge always self-educated. Sometimes we listen to the radio so much it just better just to pop in a podcast or Audible and just listen to Maggie. Halt but yeah, she says that this is her most proud work and she's she doesn't want to let Kandi go and for her candy with such an adventure and she was producer of the show as well. And yeah overall this show for me has been just a Life opening eye-opening experience about how porn was really born but that's about 4 news before predictions. Here's the thing about predictions a lot of the things that mean the legs which have talked about him predictions. They come true as far as like Lori's suicide if you guys have some Is in the chat, let me know because I do have a few more minutes, but my prediction is here's the thing. Abby is not going to come back to Vincent Vincent is going to go back to his ex-wife. I feel it, you know men are like that they like to go to like something familiar. They don't ever buy bing bada. Boom. Whatever. He's gonna go to the X, you know, here's the thing about candy or Eileen. I think Eileen's gonna give up porn. It's just too tragic Like a Porn tragedy tragedy took place. And I think she's going to shift from that into maybe a mainstream female maker we use and I think her relationship with her son's gonna get better. We did see her mom passed away. Her dad is such an asshole and we I don't think that this is going to clean up just yet. I think next week. We'll see Jack Mabel Maple the undercover cop trying to talk about some things about the streets getting clean. I think Gene might have contracted HIV. I think he's been at those bars. And those baths a lot those, you know overnight things that they go and they hook up and all of that. I think his getting off too easy. Basically, no one's off the hook in the show. That's why they showed Eileen that she messed up. No one's off the hook. Everyone has some kind of odd contribution that they did to form the do's and why did Deuces like that's a huge huge Melting Pot would everyone having issues Give Me Shelter says, it's the way of women in the life. It begs the question. What is pure feminism? A one of the thing called EPS actually herself a misogynist. My producer knows me. So well, I can't a person self which are sexualized early in their lives. I mean, it's so true though, like especially in La you guys I mean it is what it is. That's New York. That's the news fast forward to 2019 women do walk around still with price tags, you know, they just do on themselves. They do you know what that's what I think too. It is what it is. Gosh, man. I can't believe you have one more season and you know, I love how I love how George and David Simon. In our are just not making this show unnecessarily long adding one more season just to have a season. This is the perfect ending. We have one more episode to go next week. My girl Alexis will be here. I hope I did a good job, you know holding it down. It's so weird talking to myself in that screen. You guys are amazing because I don't even feel alone. I have my phone out of my chat again. Shout out to Michael Lee Give Me Shelter Cornelia my amazing producer, too. And then wait one more one more Michael a have that and then Joey artist. I think that's not that's something and then nephew Charming Chucky and our beloved Mo on Twitter who always makes the best pictures of me and Alexis and you are so awesome. I know you asked me if I visited the deuce when I was over at the East Coast. I did not I would love to visit the deuce one day if it still exists. I'm sure everything's changed. Anyway, I'm your girl Louise Tushar amati NIU You can follow me at Louisa Charles Martin on Instagram @ Lu Charles Martine on Twitter at Louisa Sharma to Facebook, and I do I'm on the radon of an after-show coming November 18th. 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Host Louisa Sharamatyan breaks down The Deuce, Season 3, Episode 7 "Thats A Wrap". Dive into the sex-trade and porn industry of the 70s in this HBO series with James Franco! Things are absolutely insane and the visuals in this show are amazing. So why not have somebody to talk about it with? On the THE DEUCE AFTERBUZZ TV AFTER SHOW, join our panel to discuss episodes of The Deuce every week Breaking down the storylines, plots, and debauchery, we'll be there! So be sure to subscribe, comment, like, and rate for cast interviews, news and gossip, and predictions all season long! Created by George Pelecanos and David Simon, who also collaborated on HBO's "The Wire" and "Treme," the semifictional drama series "The Deuce" tells of the germination of the sex-trade industry in the heart of New York's Times Square. It's the early 1970s, and the porn business begins a shift from organized crime-backed parlors to a legitimate, culturally accepted enterprise. A cast of barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, police and nightlife seekers centers around twins Vincent and Frankie Martino (James Franco, in a dual role), who navigate the sex business after meeting well-connected mobster Rudy Pipilo. Their storyline, among others, merges with that of prostitute Candy, whose ambition and intelligence lead her to a more prominent role in the industry. 