Kubelick, visit his blog here

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The plot premise Hung promised: a basketball coach who does not get the shirt to the body, with many debts and a penis more than generous, decides on the contact pages offered to pump some money. The only photo that was leaked before the release also showed the protagonist, Thomas Jane (sexy version of Christopher Lambert) in a suggestive position of men at work, between his knees and sprawled. Hoping to find a light story about the vicissitudes of a gigolo rookie. Or a black comedy about an older man who has to reconcile the duality of being a father respected by day and prostitute by night. Well, the new premiere of HBO is not one of the two.

Hung is an endearing tragicomedy about the economic crisis that pushes us to look at the history of some dudes anyone selling or not his body, and daily exploits. Paraphrasing one of John Lennon buenrollero mantra for Ray Drecker "Life is what happens when your plans are going to hell." It is not hard to imagine a teenager in the early years of school, giving the club with his girlfriend under the bleachers and dreaming of becoming a professional athlete. The screenplay for her worst nightmare came true, and a quarter century after his life has taken a turn ... 360 degrees. Follow exactly the same place, running between the same ticket, the same ball bouncing off the same basket and returning to the same house where he grew up. The only novelty is that Ray no longer dreams of things to be different. What for?

The pilot Hung basks in draw us comprehensively the situation of Ray, abandoned, humiliated and ruined, and how it does its best to find a dignified exit its suffocating financial situation. The slow tempo of the chapter is without dramatic effects: boring, as boring is the life of Ray. Just when, in desperation, iron is released into hell, he begins to perceive a change of pace that will become a great swing. The protagonist is pointing to a small business marketing course, a terrible place where you realize that not only is a loser, a looser with a capital L, but is one more. Not special, not out, is part of the social surplus nondescript their ramshackle city, Detroit embarrassed trying to hide it once had delusions of grandeur. Ray, like a child without toys and on the verge of a tantrum, symbolically lowered his pants and shows off the respectable you have between your legs, the last round to claim its uniqueness: "I have it great."

Ray puts his p **** in his empty pot, determined to regain self-esteem and positive balance in the bank. Accepted as pimp Tanya (Jane Adams wonderful, better than ever in the usual character), a homely thirties at which rice is happening, that a business plan aimed to exploit the gold member of the coach, offering women the perfect sexual partner. There was never anyone less prepared to be fucking cool that Ray and more useless than the romantic, frustrated and lonely Tanya. Maybe that's why it's so touching series.

PS: As if all this were not enough, we must say that we found in Hung (about time) as a character of Anne Heche: finally a role that he does not try to be the sympathetic. Ray's ex-wife, hysterical and selfish pesetera not intended to fall off either. What a great pleasure to hate you, daughter.

Hung airs Sundays at 22.00 (EST).