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Hung: season 1, episode 10
"A Dick and a Dream or Fight the Honey"
September 14, 2009 - 01:09a.m.
Here’s something I’ve been pondering a lot lately: Does a comedy need to make you laugh? Or can a wry tone or a certain sardonic sense be enough to distinguish it as a “comedy” from darker dramas? I ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 9
"This is America or Fifty Bucks"
August 31, 2009 - 01:08a.m.
Ah, temptation. Stalking us at every turn. And now, it’s after the characters on Hung, who didn’t get into this sex-as-salvation business for anything approaching altruistic reasons. Ray and Tanya want theirs, and the fact that they haven ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 8
"Thith Ith a Prothetic or You Cum Just Right"
August 24, 2009 - 02:08a.m.
Hung’s first season is breaking down pretty clearly into three acts. The season’s first act (roughly the first four episodes) was all about how fantasy can override our realities to such a degree that the fantasy becomes the ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 7
"The Rita Flower or the Indelible Stench"
August 17, 2009 - 01:08a.m.
After spending a few weeks letting us know all about Ray and his magic penis and how that gets him into and out of scrapes, Hung goes back to focusing on Tanya tonight, relegating Ray to a subplot that feels ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 6
"Doris Is Dead" or "Are We Rich or Are We Poor?"
August 10, 2009 - 02:08a.m.
So if Hung is a wannabe whimsical fairy tale uneasily married to a faux-naturalistic directorial style that makes it feel more realistic than it probably wants to be, then at some point, the show has to confront that dialectic head ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 5
"Do It, Monkey"
August 3, 2009 - 01:08a.m.
In the past week at the Television Critics Association press tour for Hung, the battle over the show broke out in earnest (insofar as any battle that breaks out on Twitter can be described as “earnest”). The series’ boosters (such ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 4
"The Pickle Jar"
July 27, 2009 - 12:07a.m.
I don’t think when I thought about adjectives I might use to describe a show about a new gigolo with a giant penis that “sweet” would be among those adjectives. But “sweet” is the best word to describe “The ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 3
"Strange Friends or The Truth Is, You're Sexy"
July 19, 2009 - 09:07p.m.
What makes the characters in Hung so interesting is that they’re all backed into corners, often corners of their own making. Ray has been left with basically no options in the wake of his house fire. Tonya is not ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 2
"Great Sausage" or "Can I Call You Dick?"
July 12, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
In its second episode, Hung steps outside of the narrowness of its premise and starts to build its universe. It’s not quite as immediately arresting as the series pilot, but it’s a good episode for letting us know ...
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Hung: season 1, episode 1
Hung - "Pilot"
June 28, 2009 - 07:06p.m.
Hung debuts tonight on HBO at 9 p.m. CDT.
There’s maybe no TV creator better at charting America’s uneasy relationship with its money than Dmitry Lipkin. His shows almost always have over-obvious elements or brutally stereotypical characters ...
