So we’re now into the second episode of Hung and I have to say that I can see this show continuing for seasons to come, but I simply can’t get into it the way that I can with Dexter or Weeds. There’s no connection with any of the characters at all and I somewhat find everyone of them annoying in some way.
You know I don’t think this episode tells us how much time has passed since the first episode, but apparently it was enough time for Ray to get a hickey on his neck. It raises the question of how many times has he seen a client since the first episode and if he’s already done it why was he so nervous in this episode. Anyway, Tanya finds Ray a client in one of her former co-workers who doesn’t seem very nice to begin with, but could potentially be an in for some luxury clients.
Anne Heche
Ray isn’t the most compassionate person, which makes me wonder how any of his relationships even worked for the little time that it did, so Tanya schools him on how to treat a woman. She teaches him how to give comments and all that other good stuff. When Ray gets there, all of those rules go out the window because Lenore ends up being kind of like a guy just wanting to get to the sex part.
So far Tanya isn’t being a very good pimp. She’s far too meek and weak of a character to be one. Ray is in debt a lot and for him to make enough money to get himself out of the hole he’s in, he’s going to have a lot of sex, so much in fact that it might be unbelievable to us.
The main problem with this show is that it hasn’t done enough to tell us who these characters are and what we do know about them isn’t much. Anne Heche has a bigger role this episode, but comes off as an overbearing mom trying too hard. There still isn’t much of a connection to be made with Tanya either who comes off as mild and meek and she also comes off as trying to hard when it comes to Ray. Ray might be the only character that we do care about, but it would be nice to see why his relationships with the people on the show are that way.
I feel like there’s one too many shows out there where someone has to do something illegal to get buy and the others are simply better. After Ray gets the money, what reason is there to continue other than for Greed.
I’m still interested to see where things go, because the acting isn’t too bad and I think Thomas Jane does a good job and it’s especially funny to see him kind of dance and pretend to be some kind of suave guy when he’s apparently not. Jessica is simply too one dimensional to care about and the kids could use some more time, because there’s nothing interesting about them like Nancy’s boys.
I’d like to see more done with this show, something that makes me care about the characters, because this episode was simply average and when this is just the second episode, that’s not good. We’ll have to see next week to see if we’re given something better.
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