❮ Hung
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Jun 28, 2009
Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
User score
Generally Favorable
7.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
64% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
36% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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80
Hung is much more subtle and charming and odd than its name or its concept imply.
75
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 multidimensional and the tone assured and surprising in its depth.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.0
62% Positive
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
33% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
5% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Feb 27, 2011
10
I find this show funny and fascinating. The scenario also seems pretty realistic to me. I love how it portrays and explores a variety of types of relationship and the characters negotiating and navigating around/through individual boundaries (their own and each others). And I love watching Tanya and Ray, in all their naivety, trying to figure out the world of professional prostitution. It's oddly sweet.
Nov 3, 2010
8
Very well done comedy. This show is funny and smart in a pretty crazy way. Who could imagine a show about a male prostitute could be funny and smart? only HBO could pull this off.
70
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.
70
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.
60
Since the show steadily improves as the first few episodes progress, Hung can hardly be written off as a failure.
50
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, like its main character, looks good but has little to say.
50
Hung, despite some droll humor and the occasional dry insight, is even more of a disappointment.
Aug 6, 2010
8
Flipping through the channels, I assumed Hung was the second coming of a new Westerns age. I was mildly unsatisfied with the outcome; however, the show about a male escort is original and funny in its own quaint way. Some may feel the short length a bit lacking, but for this show, any longer would make things repetitive and dull.
Dec 27, 2010
4
Jane Adams' character is supposed to be the good one but you cannot help but hate her because she plays it in such a way that annoys the piss out of you. The writing is average. The story itself is a bit stupid but draws you in at first, until it ultimately lets you down when nothing happens in the show. Very average show that I would tell others not to bother with.
