SummaryRay Drecker's (Thomas Jane) life is a mess: his wife has left him, he makes little as a high school coach, and then his house goes up in flames. After attending a get-rich seminar, he decides to market his biggest personal asset.
SummaryRay Drecker's (Thomas Jane) life is a mess: his wife has left him, he makes little as a high school coach, and then his house goes up in flames. After attending a get-rich seminar, he decides to market his biggest personal asset.
While the show does contain a few obvious penis punch lines, it is so much more than its gimmicky name suggests, offering plenty of heart, along with worthwhile riffs on the national economy, American resourcefulness and, yes, gender dynamics.
While it sounds like a one-joke conceit, and a sophomoric one at that, this HBO series is oddly beguiling, a downbeat screwball comedy in R-rated clothing.
Thomas Jane and Tanya Skagle's performances aside, Hung remains, despite all efforts to inform it with larger meaning, trapped in being all about just what that title says.
It turns out, not merely depressing, but unfunny in its comedic moments and unmoving in its dramatic ones. Which is weird, because Thomas Jane is charming as gigolo Ray and Jane Adams' Tanya is always interesting as his pimp.