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Hung is a comedy-drama series, which premiered on HBO on June 28, 2009. The series was created by Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson and stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a struggling suburban Detroit high school basketball coach who resorts to male prostitution. The second season premiered on June 27, 2010 and concluded its 10 episode run on September 12, 2010. On September 2, 2010 it was announced that HBO had ordered Hung for a third season consisting of 10 episodes set to premiere in 2011.

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Hung renewed for a third season

Posted on Sep 01, 2010

HBO has ordered another season of 10 episodes that will air next year. The renewal was a bit of surprise as the show hasn't been doing that good in the ratings. ... Read More

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Brian Lowry's review of Hung for Variety

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Season two, unfortunately, takes that start and heads in the wrong direction.... Read More

Ken Tucker's review of Hung for Entertainment Weekly

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

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... Read More

Daynah Burnett's review of Hung for PopMatters

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

While Hung has its stage set to see some of these types of stories play out, scene after scene positions Ray as a cipher for other characters.... Read More

James Poniewozik's review of Hung for Time

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

I feel that there's a really good dark comedy about the decline of the American dream struggling to emerge from the often-forced plots.... Read More

Rob Owen's review of Hung for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Hung remains less of a comedy than HBO presents it as, but it's certainly more platable in season two.... Read More

Heather Havrilesky's review of Hung for Salon

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

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'l... Read More

Aaron Riccio's review of Hung for Slant Magazine

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Hung grows more penetrating with every episode. There are still throwaway scenes (like between Ray and the rich neighbor whose having an affair with him), but they contribute to the way in which Ray i... Read More

Chuck Barney's review of Hung for San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

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... Read More

Hank Stuever's review of Hung for Washington Post

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Thanks to Adams and Kreskoff's delightfully wicked power struggle, Hung feels fresher now than it felt last summer and more textured.... Read More

Michael Murray's review of Hung for Slant Magazine

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Lacking the poetic and poignant touch that might help make the ridiculous sublime or the sublime ridiculous, HBO, under cover of a dangerous and racy premise, has created a middlebrow comedy that, lik... Read More

Emily Nussbaum's review of Hung for New York Magazine

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

It’s not impossible that the show might become, as it seems intended to be, a sitcom take on Susan Faludi’s Stiffed, a perverse fable about the way a man emasculated by the economy learns to strut. Bu... Read More

Rob Owen's review of Hung for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

It's possible that Hung will lighten up as time goes on. The weak ending to Sunday's pilot is trite and feels like a half-hearted effort to be uplifting. It doesn't work.... Read More

David Zurawik's review of Hung for Baltimore Sun

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

That is profound stuff--if only the series did a better job of capturing it. The idea that all he has to sell is himself is an interesting one intellectually, but it doesn't play very well onscreen.... Read More

Maureen Ryan's review of Hung for Chicago Tribune

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Hung, despite some droll humor and the occasional dry insight, is even more of a disappointment.... Read More

Ken Tucker's review of Hung for Entertainment Weekly

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Thomas Jane, though, is a revelation--he plays hopeless haplessness without coming off wimpy, and his initial uncomfortableness as a pro gigolo is charming. But Hung's awkward tone becomes frustrating... Read More

Tom Shales's review of Hung for Washington Post

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Since the show steadily improves as the first few episodes progress, Hung can hardly be written off as a failure.... Read More

Dorothy Rabinowitz's review of Hung for Wall Street Journal

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Thomas Jane and Tanya Skagle's performances aside, Hung remains, despite all efforts to inform it with larger meaning, trapped in being all about just what that title says.... Read More

David Hinckley's review of Hung for New York Daily News

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

HBO bills Hung as a comedy, but it uses comedy the way it uses sex--to set up darker, more interesting and complex points. It's amazing how many of those are out there.... Read More

Robert Bianco's review of Hung for USA Today

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Its virtues have been buried under the kind of meandering plots and underpowered dialogue that mark so many TV comedies these days, which seem unable to decide whether they'd rather be unfunny comedie... Read More

Glenn Garvin's review of Hung for Miami Herald

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Thomas Jane exudes a convincing odor of despair as Ray. So does Jane Adams as Tanya, one of his former one-night-stands who abandons her abysmally failed career as a poet to become his pimpette. If an... Read More

Troy Patterson's review of Hung for Slate

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

This show makes a virtue of vice in its own way. Co-imagined by Alexander Payne, who directed the pilot, Hung is a purposeful lark about emasculation.... Read More

Jonathan Storm's review of Hung for Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The premise, and all the talking around it that we're forced to do in the name of propriety, is kind of laughable. Tomorrow's premiere, in which Drecker's house, and all the memorabilia from a legenda... Read More

Mary McNamara's review of Hung for Los Angeles Times

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Despite some less-than-stellar story lines--Ray's feud with his rich neighbor, his constant referral to how things have changed since his parents' day--Ray comes across as a genuine Everyman. Who just... Read More

Matthew Gilbert's review of Hung for Boston Globe

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

This promising series is really about a failed optimist, driven by the recession and his own midlife depression to sell his body to rich ladies.... Read More

Randee Dawn's review of Hung for Hollywood Reporter

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The show is pretty darned funny, especially once you get past the 45-minute pilot and into the half-hour regular episodes (smaller is better, actually).... Read More

Ellen Gray's review of Hung for Philadelphia Daily News

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Jane is utterly believable as the hapless Ray, who, during the show's first four episodes, lurches from one disaster to another. But his character's a little too weighted down - and, no, not by the eq... Read More

Alessandra Stanley's review of Hung for The New York Times

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

While it sounds like a one-joke conceit, and a sophomoric one at that, this HBO series is oddly beguiling, a downbeat screwball comedy in R-rated clothing.... Read More

Tim Goodman's review of Hung for San Francisco Chronicle

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The pilot, directed by Alexander Payne ("Sideways"), is superb, and the first handful of episodes (there are 10 in the season), prove that the writing is consistently strong, the characters multidimen... Read More

Verne Gay's review of Hung for Newsday

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

What's new here? Nothing, really. Jane is likable, Adams is, too, and so--believe it or not--is Hung. That's another problem. Hung needed to be scabrously funny. Instead, it's just middlebrow amusing.... Read More

Staff (Not Credited)'s review of Hung for New York Post

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

You will find yourself cheering Ray onward and upward! And yes, I am ashamed of myself.... Read More

Paige Wiser's review of Hung for Chicago Sun-Times

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Hung is worth watching. There are worse ways to spend your nights than with Ray Drecker: male prostitute.... Read More

Heather Havrilesky's review of Hung for Salon

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Hung is much more subtle and charming and odd than its name or its concept imply.... Read More

Brian Lowry's review of Hung for Variety

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Jane and Adams' interplay, the willingness to let the story gradually unfold and the project's disarming sensitivity (exemplified via a splendid fourth-episode guest shot by Margo Martindale) helps el... Read More

Alan Sepinwall's review of Hung for Newark Star-Ledger

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Hung has more to offer than just John Thomas jokes. Amidst all the sniggering humor about how Ray has been taught to "do your best with the gifts God gave you" is some smart comedy about the state of ... Read More

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Hung 02X09 Recapped!!

Posted on Sep 02, 2010

The scene opens with Lenore entering the high school. She visits Ray’s classroom and asks to speak to him. He goes in the hallway and she tells that he had sex with Francis and that she wants her cut.... Read More

Hung 02X08 Recapped!!

Posted on Aug 23, 2010

The scene opens with Ray and Mike in the locker room. It has been vandalized and all their equipment stolen. Mike asks if it was Damon could have done it. Ray tells that he couldn’t have and tells tha... Read More

Hung 02X07 Recapped!!

Posted on Aug 17, 2010

The show opens with a naked Ray walking through his house and he gets dressed. Lenore is in Ray’s bed and she tells that she wants coffee. She tells that she might have a steady client for Ray. She ta... Read More

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