Disillusioned with the American dream? Get ‘Hung.’
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The first thing you should know about HBO‘s new series “Hung,” which begins airing tonight, is that it’s not just a show about a guy with a big penis who decides to become a gigolo. No siree.
According to its wife-husband co-creators, Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, “Hung” is about the fraying of the American dream and the battered resiliency of the middle class. It’s about the former golden boys and golden girls of high school being forced to navigate midlife’s tricky shoals. It’s about the lip-smacking ironies of extreme gender reversal, and how they can affect the dynamic between a couple.
And it’s about that eternal Freudian brain-teaser, ‘What do women want?’ (Hint: It’s not just roses and Godiva chocolates.)
Even so, Burson and Lipkin concede, for writers like themselves it’s intriguing to get inside the mind and skin of Ray Drecker, the aforementioned, hugely well-endowed main character in “Hung,” played by actor Thomas Jane. “It’s a really weird personality type, these guys with huge penises,” Burson reflected recently. “It’s like they won some lottery.”
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