Friday, August 28, 2009
HUNG - A STORYLINE
While a man may hire a prositute for sex...
According to a storyline in HUNG (on MTV), one of the ways a woman will use a prostitute (aka a "happiness consultant") is to make him care-for/love her and then break up with him to hurt him -- just the way so many men have hurt her by breaking up with her.
This show finds odd and amusing ways to illuminate m/f relationships (and also the mysteries of building a new business).
Labels: Hung
Sunday, June 28, 2009
HUNG
Showtime has weed & a happy prostitute. Of course there has been a mob family man and a serial killer. Undertakers, vampires, ... There was a family of grifters.
Now we have a male prostitute. All in fun. A bit derivative. Are any other family friendly vices left to harvest for TV?
Hung is a pleasant show.
The main character, Ray Drecker, (Thomas Jane) is firmly sexualized. (Pun is accidental but appropriate.) Like a prostitute who is portrayed for her physical endowments rather than for her ability to convey the high-end GFE. (Girl friend experience.) (See the Huffington Post on this.)
Drecker is genial. Altogether seemingly too well put-together all the way from head to toe to be the complete disaster of a father/husband/wage-earner/etc the back-story requires. Cast rather in the mold of Mad Men.
His sidekick, Tanya Skagle (great name!), a poetess, played by Jane Adams (a Tony award winning actress), is rather more interestingly cast, and does a lot to give the show some character.
It's well written, amusing, frequently hinting at (if not delivering more than the usual Cable appropriate) sex, and well acted. It's OK.
Labels: Hung, Jane Adams, Tanya Skagle, Thomas Jane
