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.
Although at times Hung unravels and feels as lost as Ray Drecker himself, its individual scenes present as darkly funny and disturbing a parable of the disheartening state of American culture as you'll find on the small screen.
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.