You feared frat boy humor. I guess. I feared soft-core porn premise sold as a "daring" drama. ABC's Swingtown was another example. HBO seems to have a thing for the fluffy-sexy plot premise, as if the world weren't already littered with all the porn we want. The idea seems to be "but this is better than porn because, while we can't show much, we can show more attractive people doing not much." I don't think for people on the lookout for erotic images, this is considered a fair trade anymore. They've moved past their Law and Order phase.

But when you describe the protagonist as an older Dirk Diggler, that makes it sound better and more intriguing. I don't have any premium channels, so I won't find out for myself until a first season DVD collection gets released. But probably I'll give the show a shot if it does.

I recently and accidentally ran across a word that defines the nature and character of this condition commonly displayed by liberals. The word is “delusional”. In psychiatry, the noun form is defined as a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact. Many liberals are delusional. And one of the reasons they have this condition is because they believe the fiction on TV, they are absorbed by laugh tracks that twist reality, and they have trouble distinguishing fiction from reality. So, as my blog describes in detail, when a show like “Hung” portrays the glamorized version of a gigolo, and it ignores the early onset Alzheimer’s, testicle cancer, anal cancer, high tax-rates for everyone, global warming, anal cancer of the wife, blind babies, abortions, blurred vision, heart troubles, prostate failure, impotence, herpes, genital warts, liver disease, prison, bankruptcy from medical bills, early death, and other myriad problems that plague all prostitutes, the deluded individual stubbornly resists anything that tries to intrude on the fraudulent view of reality. They are loyal to the delusion to the degree that they want to harm anyone shattering it. And they want others to share in the delusion. It is as if they are angry at reality. This all manifests itself as senseless name-calling.

What in God's holy name are you blathering about?

I can't tell but it sounds like he's upset about the anal poisoning he got from Rush Limbaugh. That's just my guess.

I love how this guys manages to put in a plug for his own blog while he's trying to ride the coattails of a writer he pretends to disdain. Classic ass-hat behavior.

By the way "That squint means that Neve Campbell is acting" is exactly the kind of line that makes Havrilesky so worth reading.

Uh - hello ??? Y-A-W-N !!!

Please - this is more "LCD" entertainment. Unimaginative producers desperate for ratings and ad revenue. Is this really what it's come down to?

Women aren't typically motivated by a "sexy body" or an "abnormally large member". But maybe this is more about trying to get women to be more motivated by sex... than, maybe a jackass with a large dick could get laid more. The ends justifies the means kinda thing? You got me...

about a slow-witted but amiable woman-whore and her pimp. That would be so fun!

But while you are all busy with them would you mind if I keep the hot mess that is Jason Stackhouse from True Blood for myself?

I'll be teaching him how to read or something. I swear.

Why don't you just go on and put together a show about a talking unicorn?

Meanwhile, the way them "Hung" ads draped over the page on Salon, they might as well have just put up the Full Monty and gotten it over with.

Not that I watch the beast box or anything, but:

calling HBO- is this a system?

.....,but I read Havrilesky's column simply because she writes so well AND is so genuinely funny.

Thanks,

David Terry

I had heard the "older Dirk Diggler" line before, but it brings up a question as well. Dirk flashed up the phony looking wannabe at the end of the movie, which was probably the worst scene in the movie.

Are we going to get another one of those "moments" or are we expected to believe a rather subjective description based on a bunch of older (and not too pleasant looking from the previews) women?

"He just can't say no to the bastions of hot women who want him bad."

From en.wiktionary.org:

"bastion (plural bastions)

1. a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification

2. a well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel

3. (figuratively) a person, or thing, who strongly defends some principle"

Maybe Heather meant "myriad" or some other fancy word.

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Payola much?

You have to be doing that for money, right?

Oh come on! She writes pretty good for a high school kid.

Bastion? At least it wasn't moats.

"He just can't say no to the most of hot women who want him bad."

Moats - wet and fragrant!

You are suffering from the delusion that liberals and conservatives are not the same species of domesticated apes.

If your parents weren't sex-obsessed apes, chances are you would not be a sex obsessed ape either.

Hey! I'm trying to explain something to you. Can you stop playing with yourself for ONE MINUTE for chrissakes?

Damned dirty apes!

In an apparent attempt to improve society by encouraging more male stars to get anal cancer -- to offset the sexist anal cancer of Farah, a new show targeting a liberal audience, and progressively named Hung, glamorizes male prostitution. It’s about a gigolo, of all things, a gigolo frequented by female clients – well, it is fiction. They can’t show what male gigolos really do—“not that there’s anything wrong with that.” Well, apparently there is, because their gigolo has no male clients. I haven’t watched the show, and probably never will, but from the advertisements, it seems the show portrays being a gigolo as an exciting career opportunity for young skulls full of mush. When society needs cops, they run cop shows, lawyers, legal shows, male gigolos—I think Hollywood has a conflict of interest. My guess is the show has few episodes covering the gigolo in his more ghonorreal moments – like hours on the toilet with massive diarrhea, bouts with lipodistrophy, hundred pound weight loss, not the kind you want, but the kind that brings you down to 60 pounds, the blindness of his children, his early onset dementia, and, of course, a slow, ugly death from anal cancer that has spread to his liver. It’s a comedy. Now that’s funny.