Congratulations to Hung. It actually had its first tricky opening. Originally when Ray drove up to the damsel in distress, I thought it was for real and it never came to mind that the lady was a client. I have to say this is another good episode from Hung and I’m really looking forward to the rest of the season.
I kind of like how Hung works, because the show could easily work as a client of the week, but they don’t seem to be making it an every episode thing. This episode focused on Gemma, a lonely woman who wants to enact a damsel in distress fantasy. This role was played brilliantly by an almost unrecognizable Natalie Zea, who I’m so used to as Karen Darling and it was really a nice change to see her play a character who was a bit less over the top, but still kind of crazy. This episode really shows how troublesome things can get in Ray’s line of work as we watch him redo the whole damsel in distress fantasy a couple of times. After a while. it became less about the money and more about Ray trying to get the job done… well it was still about the money a little.
Thomas Jane, Natalie Zea
It was funny when it looked like Ray had finally gotten it right, only for him to choke when she talked about how she loved him. You really can’t blame Ray for that though. At one point it was hard to tell whether Ray was even pretending anymore because it started becoming more fluid for him. I would have preferred to get to Gemma a little more though, because we could kind of empathize with her with the fact that she’s lonely and just wants a companion; and really just wants that fairy tale scene that every girl wants. If we would have gotten just a little more background on her though, she really could have been someone to really like, but then again this is just a client and it’s probably not a good idea to get attached to a character that is made to be temporary.
On the side, we had Jessica finding out that Ron is now broke because of money he lost in the stock market. I still haven’t found a reason to love or hate Jessica yet because I don’t think we know her that well; she seems like a good person, but she comes off as kind of neurotic sometimes. I do like the way that Ray’s luck seems to be going up as Jessica’s is going down and it was nice to see Ray be able to give his kids steaks and possibly buy them a car.
All of this culminated with a bit of a cliffhanger where Ray asked Gemma for another chance, but we get no answer (even though the preview kind of ruins it). There’s also a small thing that keeps happening in these episodes where we get a scene of the neighbors wife looking at him. Ray seems surprised that she’s looking at him and either didn’t write the note to her or didn’t think the note would be such a big deal. Hopefully we’ll see something come of that as well.
I thought this was a good episode and Hung is really starting to catapult itself up there for me. There’s still fixes to be made, most importantly with character development, but it’s coming into it on and this episode was a funny and overall good episode to watch.
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