Starring: Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Charlie Saxton, Anne Heche, Eddie Jemison, Rebecca Creskoff
Created By: Dmitry Lipkin, Colette Burson
Network: HBO
Showtime: Sundays, 10:00pm EST

These trying times of increasing economic hardship are certainly an odd basis for a comedy, but that is precisely where HBO has set out its lemonade stand for their latest half-hour offering. Opening with a dime tour of the once mighty Motor City, now dilapidated and depressed, Hung’s irreverent hero Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane of Punisher fame) glumly offers an assessment of our nation’s fiscally drowning underclass. Peppered with shots of junkyards, car graveyards, and images of abandoned industry, Drecker characterizes his troubled city as “Headquarters on the river of failure.”

Despite a mildly taboo premise, and tantalizing shots of Jane’s shirtless, impossibly ripped torso occurring with the frequency of a Chippendale show, this isn’t really a sex comedy at all. Rather Hung is a comedy about male angst, about the emasculating nature of recession. It’s a comedy about America. In fact almost every aspect of this show has an underlying economic message. A high school teacher and coach of the town’s luckless, winless basketball team, currently riding the wave of an unprecedented losing streak, we learn that Ray earns more than a waiter and slightly less than a plumber.

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