Air Date: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 10/9c on HBO
The opening scenes to Hung always get me going. They set the tone for the rest of the episode. Ray (Thomas Jane) working his cell out of his pocket is hilarious; him trying to get the phone to recognize his command to call Tanya (Jane Adams) and her resulting ringtone for him, “Love on the Line,” has me dying laughing. Tanya runs around frantic and is at her best when she can’t think straight. Seeking advice doesn’t help and she’s not calm enough to think sharply. This is what I love about Tanya. This is what makes her character amazing and one of the funniest females on television.
“You know what really hurts? Taking something fragile and breaking it. Like trust. Or this television.” Lenore (Rebecca Creskoff) is one crazy chick. But I like her. She’s a bit irrational though, breaking the television, considering she should want to keep Jason (Stephen Amell) happy. He’s the only ho she has. Where’s she gonna find another one? Or better yet, what would she do should Jason decide to slip on over to the other side and join up with Tanya and Ray?
Observations:
I don’t know what game Lydia (Ana Ortiz) is playing with Ray, but she has him scared shitless. “What kind of person do you think I am?” Well, I think you’re crazy but since the question wasn’t posed to me… I can see Lydia’s not really a bad person—she’s a disgruntled wife, looking to be fulfilled sexually, looking for that missing piece of something in her life. She’s a woman and not nearly as tough as she wants us to think. Lydia doesn’t just dress up as a cop, she puts on an entire uniform of cop persona in order to handle everyone but her husband.
Why Tanya doesn’t listen to Charlie (Lennie James), I’ll never know. He tells her not to go chasing after Ray, but no… she doesn’t listen. I can’t deny, I’m glad she doesn’t always listen. If she did, she wouldn’t end up in the crazy situations she does with Ray. Then, of course, we’d miss the ensuing conversation Ray and Tanya have in the backseat of Lydia’s police car—it’s sheer hilarity. Adams is perfection in this episode and I’m glad to see her back to her usual Tanya hijinks. “Our hearts are hot air balloons filled with helium.” What the hell does that even mean?
Jessica (Anne Heche) is seriously underutilized as Ray’s moral compass. I’m kidding. She doesn’t have any right or business telling him who to do when she’s boinking her boss. What a joke that is. Here’s the thing, I really want to see Jessica and Ray together. The only thing is, that might put a damper on Ray’s other job. I don’t think he can be with Jessica and continue to sell his body. *insert wicked laugh*
Funny lines:
Ray to Tanya about Lydia not talking sense to him: “She won’t talk to me. She’s talking about a different penis. Last time I checked, I only got the one!”
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Ray to Lydia as she pulls up to the police station: “Now is not the time to be playing games. Lydia, listen. I cannot go to jail. I am a father, I’m a teacher… I’m a girls’ volleyball coach!”
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Ray definitely goes on the ride of his life, literally as well as metaphysically. But you have to give him credit where it’s due; he takes care of the people in his life. Even with a crazy ass cop driving him around—handcuffed and panicked, not knowing what fate awaits him. I predict Ray may change his dealings a bit. I don’t mean he’ll get out of the business completely, but he’ll definitely pay more attention to and handle his clients carefully. At least I hope he does. But then again, where would be the comedy in that?
Tune in to season three of Hung, Sundays at 10/9c only on HBO. For more on the show, visit http://www.hbo.com/#/hung.
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