TV Spotlight -- Hung (HBO)

I finally got around to watching HBO's new follow-up to the almighty TrueBlood on my DVR this morning. Hung is the story of Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane), a Detroit native high school basketball coach whose life after divorce and financial turmoil left him in a serious bind. Add to that his house burning down and his fat and ugly kids leaving him to live with his Ex, Ray's life officially blows. But while the rest of us might try and pick up a second job, take a loan or beg family for funds, Ray takes the high road to using his one god given gift (as the title of the series makes pretty obvious) - his wiener.

The series has a very simple look to it - similar production value to other HBO single camera shoots like Entourage or Sopranos. The story flows threw Ray's voice-over narration (which has NOTHING on Dexter Morgan in Showtime's Dexter) and boasts an original film-like score to accompany the plot and move the story right along.

All in all, I am interested to see where Hung takes me and I have always found it funny that I think Thomas Jane is the same person as Aaron Eckhart (Thank You For Not Smoking, The Dark Knight). Really he is just that dude from Deep Blue Sea who seems ready to be the talk of the town this summer with his new series about his big dong. With a lack of reality TV in my life (besides Daisy Of Love which is proving to be pretty fun since I have a serious bro crush on 12 Pack) and only a glimmer of hope still remains that Entourage will be what it once was - you can be sure I will be watching Hung again July 12th for episode number two.