TV-Reviewed

Hung is really starting to come together since the last episode and “The Pickle Jar” was an episode that was very nice to watch and seemed to give the show a possible direction for the season. With this episode, Hung is finally starting to feel like a show where I can get into the characters.

The episode starts us off with the kids at Ray’s school making him the recipient of their fundraiser. It was all kind of funny because the speech that a student gave really made Ray out to be someone who never moves ahead in life. He at least got money to buy himself a beam for his house, but we do end up finding out that there’s not even enough money in the jar.

Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker

Meanwhile, Tanya has lined up two jobs for Ray, even before Ray had agreed to get back into the business, but with funds so low, he kind of had no choice. Even now that the business is finally starting to pick up Ray runs into his first problem when his client ends up being a lonely old lady named Molly. Ray apparently thought all his clients would be young women, so he ends up faking sick with Molly. When he visits again though Ray is a lot more charming and seemed to sympathize with her.

I think if the writers focus on the clients changing Ray that this show works a lot better. Essentially by the end of this show’s run, we should see a changed Ray, not fully changed, but maybe more of a people person.

The kids were also given a nice role here with Dharby breaking up with her boyfriend. We got glimpses of Ronnie acting like a tough guy, but it might have had something to do with his mom’s gay comment. I don’t necessarily get Ronnie yet, but maybe that’s what’s intriguing about him. I’m starting to like the actors who play them, but hopefully we’ll see a bit more of them.

We also got a nice scene which may or may not amount to anything with Lenore meeting Jessica. We’re not sure if this will be something common place on Hung where characters will run into Ray’s family ever so often or if this will actually play itself out later on this season.

I thought this was a good episode and I’m very interested to see who the next client is and where the story is going to go from here on out. I see Hung is improving and let’s hope that it continues.

Rating: 8.0