Detroit Adult Entertainment: hbo’s Hung premieres
June 24, 2009 at 6:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsIn HBO’s new series Hung, which premieres Sunday 28 at 9pm, Thomas Jane plays Ray Drecker, a guy who’s, well, really hung. What makes the pilot so engaging is that Ray’s endowment is the least interesting thing about him. When his wife leaves him for a schlubby-but-rich dermatologist and his life as a high-school teacher and basketball coach goes from suck to sucktastic, Ray looks for financial support from the one asset he’s got left: a long schlong. Rather than a faux-scandalized, self-titillating take on sex work, the pilot looks at the malaise of a man whose youthful promise has turned into middle-aged stasis.
The problem with the pilot, however, is its apparent attempt to be more than that.
Directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways) and written by Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, Hung begins with shots of a moribund Motor City as Ray’s voice-over laments, basically, the decline of the U.S.A. Hung never fleshes out the connection between America’s doldrums and Ray’s. …
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