Hung

The only show they tried to cancel recently was ‘The Life and Times of Tim,’ and they just un-canceled it

The Hung portion of HBO’s TCA press tour was (reportedly) one of the more interesting bits of what is usually a not-very-interesting event. I mentioned this in an earlier post, and Todd VanDerWerff talks more about this in his review of the latest episode of Hung, but basically the producers got called on their decision not to show the main character’s penis, and replied with a mixture of the snickering double-entendres that characterized the whole presentation, and slightly pretentious justifications about the “Platonic ideal” and such. For people who, like me, don’t really care for the show (I think of it as like Loverboy only not as good, and certainly not as funny), it seemed to sum up what Hung is: sophomoric penis jokes plus pretension plus a lack of courage when it really counts.