Monday, August 24, 2009

Hung


This season of Entourage appears headed for the biggest one year drop-off since Ben Wallace stopped taking roids and pulling down 15 boards a game. It's about as entertaining as Fonzworth Bentley. And if that wasn't enough, they brought back E's cute little alien girlfriend to spice things up!

With four episodes left in Season 6, there's still no story arc. (I refuse to accept that it's E's love life or Ari's troubles with his unfaithful employee, the worthless Andrew Klein).

Luckily, the show that proceeds it, Hung, is quickly becoming one of TV's most entertaining comedies. Think American Gigolo meets Breaking Bad meets Weeds and you've got Hung.

Like Breaking Bad and Weeds before it, Hung revolves around the main characters compounding financial problems, and the illegal, yet amusing actions taken to address their monetary woes.

Maybe the concept isn't incredibly original, but Hung, masterfully takes viewers inside the minds of its two principle anti-hero's - Ray Drecker and Tanya "T-Brain" Skagel.

Ray is the classic high school stud turned burnout. T-Brain is the classic poetry dork. Together they form Happiness Consultants - a one man whore brigade powered by Ray and fronted by T-Brain.

Set in suburban Detroit (Where else would a man whore be lurking?), Hung is as awkward as it is endearing. You root for Ray and T-Brain because they are about as real as TV characters can get.

Throw in Anne Heche as Ray's ex-wife, the nervous guy from the Ocean's Eleven trilogy and two of the oddest looking child actors around (Ray's son Damon has the best Pete Rose haircut since Pete Rose), and you've got something to make you partially forget just how crappy Entourage has been.


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