Really HBO? A Show Called Hung?
The new president of HBO has greenlit her first show, a series from the creators of The Riches called Hung. Guess which of these sentences correctly describes the show:
A) A reality show about the daily life of American Idol reject William Hung.
B) An experimental, flashback-based series that takes place entirely in the mind of a man looking back on his life in the few seconds after he's been hung, but before he dies.
C) A series based "on a well-endowed man who used to be a sports star in high school and is now fading into mediocrity in his middle-aged years as a father and high school basketball coach. His life starts to turn around when he finds out a way to use his best, private-part asset."
If you answered C, you should be the president of HBO, running around greenlighting obvious, unimaginative show pitches. It's like they opened up a slang dictionary, closed their eyes, chose a word, and wrote an entire show around it. And for the love of god, American Beauty came out NINE YEARS AGO, are we still doing this frustrated middle-aged suburban dude sexual awakening thing? I'm mad. I'm actually really angry that this stupid show is going to exist. I'm not even going to hate-watch it.
Posted by Lindsay at 3:45 PM in Hate-Watching
Tags: American Beauty | Hung
Amen, Lindsay.
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Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge whatup~!!!
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I think the actor should be required to do a full frontal nudity shot at the beginning of every show, so we know he's not just "playing one" on TV.
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When I saw the commercial for this show I lost a whole lot of faith in humanity. Choice B would be interesting.
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Why do they need to show penis? HBO NEVER shows a vagina in any of their television series. The most we ever get to see of a woman is bush, and that is very rare. Usually, we only see non-genital nudity of women. (breasts)If they won't show female genitalia why should they show male genitalia? Also, if the show is any good they should be able to draw viewers based on the writing and acting and not just use exploitaive male nudity to attract prurient interest from voyeuristic, sex-starved, perverted homosexuals and slutty women. If anybody wants to see penis so bad, they can go watch some gay porn!I hope, for Thomas Jane's sake, he has more dignity than that and won't allow himself to be exploited.
Also, it bothers me that penises are being shown so frequently in movies and television lately. Why can't we get equal viewing of the vulva? How about we put the full female genitalia (not just bush) on display too?! That's the real last taboo. It's an unfair sexist double-standard that the entire male genitalia (penis and testicles) can be shown in mainstream movies and television now, but the female genitalia (clitoris and labia) is still considered taboo. Whatever happened to "equality"? What's good for the goose is good for the gander; it's time that mainstream cinema and television starts showing vaginas too!
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