Hate it. Hated the script. Watched the show. Hated it. Usually like Anne Heche and Jane Adams. Hated them. Watched 3 episodes (got preview discs) for professional curiousity, got forty five minutes into ep 3 and said, "Eff this." Life is too short. I don't understand the hook. I don't understand why I should care. The thing is, this is a show that could only have been greenlit in Hollywood. The "hero" is the golden boy from High School that everyone secretly knew was peaking. Now we're supposed to care that his life is shit. No sale. Boo hoo. Don't you get it? We like that this guy failed. This guy failing validates the universe that the rest of us live in, where we were uncomfortable weirdoes in high school and had to fight to come into our own later. We had to fight to be interesting. The fact that the whole premise is that an uninteresting guy falls back on his big dick is just... well, it's a spectacular, spectacular miss. Feh.
Sadly, I think that actually about covers it.
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The weird thing is that Dmitry Lipkin thinks the show is for women, while it seemed to Lisa and me that the show is a wish fulfillment fantasy for white men resentful that they've been displaced by brown people and women.
Also, big cop-out, because really, who's the most interested in big dicks, women, or teh gays?
Good question, who is the show for?
It's kind of like the movie "Boogie Nights," who's interested in the men in porno?
If you want to see a really good show about prostitution - check out "Band of Gold" made in 1995 by the British.
I think my problem with the show is an exact mix of the points Denis and Alex make: the show is aimed at the type of guy who should, in all likelihood, hate the main character.
But it hasn't lost me quite yet.
Also, I can't see anyway this show would be directed at women.
i agree. awful show. i dont think the problem lies in who the target audience is, it's in the fact that the stories/scripts have been horrendous.
It's got big numbers, holding 90 or 95% of the True Blood audience. I'm addicted to True Blood but hate "Hung". But the show got 3.6 million last airing (True Blood at 3.9 million). Big numbers for the cabler. Obviously not made for us discerning types.
Eh, I have to disagree. Why does a show have to be about someone that wasn't popular in high school? Hung is actually a perfect show for the current economic/social climate - this guy *was* something and now isn't, and has actually accepted that realization.
You're supposed to care about him because his life didn't turn out the way he thought. He's failed, and though you may have hated him (or those like him) in high school, he's now the loser. But regardless of high school politics, it's really just a story about someone that has accepted their "failure" and re-thought their strategy in economic uncertainty, which I think many (if not most) of us should be able to identify with. I mean, most of us reading this blog are struggling writers that certainly aren't living in splendor through word-smithing alone.
What's the appeal of True Blood? I don't get it. Vampires continue to suck in all senses of the word. Anna Paquin looks 14. Almost every scene is gratuitously trashy. Most of the characters are broad stereotypes. It's all just so lazy.
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