Apparently he has a large penis.

After seeing the previews for the new HBO series Hung my thought was pretty much "looks like Weeds except with prostitution instead of drugs".

Unfortunately it wasn't quite that. Weeds managed to get the background explanations across and still be pretty funny and introduce a number of its quirky supporting characters all in the first episode. For some reason Hung was so caught up expositing Ray's unfortunate circumstances over and over again that it didn't have much time left to be funny or to make us care about the few quirky supporting characters. Seriously, did they really need to explain to us how great he was in high school 3 times? And how many times did we really have to dwell on the charred remains of his house? It's like the writers (or HBO execs) didn't think an audience would accept his choice to be a gigolo unless it was overwhelmingly convinced about how terrible his life had become. And not only did they repeatedly show us how much his life was sucking, but there was also a voiceover so that he could tell us how much his life sucked even when the visual evidence of it wasn't on the screen. There's no way Showtime would ever be this apologetic.

Apart from all of that repeating of his dire circumstances and crappy life, the show really only had one joke and, just like the exposition, it was repeated over and over again. He's got a big dick. We get it. And to be honest, it's really not that funny. Neither is hearing the various women in the show talk about it. And in this episode it was really just his ex-wife and his poet/pimp lady. I'm concerned that in future episodes, when more women become involved in the "he has a big dick" discussion, it will become even more tedious and unfunny.

So that's it. Basically I found the show tedious and not near as funny as it could be. I mean, it has a cast full of people who know how to be funny. At least Thomas Jane, Jane Adams and Anne Heche are funny. So far their comedic skills are being grossly underused. Maybe I'll watch again this week to see if it gets any better, but so far it's no Weeds.