Comedy

By Stacey Harrison The mystery of Ray’s missing wallet deepens when he and Tanya head over to the house where he and Lenore conducted their transaction only to find she doesn’t live there. In fact, the elderly gentleman who answers the door has no idea who she is. Tanya tries to soothe Ray’s nerves, assuring him she’ll get to the bottom of it. She finally tracks down Lenore, who thinks Tanya has come to her apartment to attend brunch. After getting all huffy and indignant, Lenore returns Ray’s wallet but without any cash. Then she refuses to pay for his […]

By Stacey Harrison First off, let me say how bummed I am to find out Hung is just a half-hour show. They fooled us with that magnificent hour-long pilot. Seems like the show could handle the (ahem) length, but if the quality of the show stays like this, we’ll take what we can get. Ray’s school is laying off teachers — the entire art department, in fact. But Ray’s not worried about his job. After all, basketball is more important than art. But then he gets called into the principal’s office, but not for any termination. Just a garden-variety chewing […]

By Stacey Harrison It doesn’t take long to spot an Alexander Payne project. Whether he’s shooting in his native Omaha (Election, About Schmidt), California’s wine country (Sideways) or in this case, post-industrial Detroit, the director instills such a sense of place in everything he does that it becomes impossible to picture them happening anywhere else. With Hung, we open on Motor City landmarks being torn down and other sights of urban decay, while Ray Drecker begins his narration with, “Everything’s falling apart. And it all starts right here in Detroit, the headwaters of a river of failure.” Ray Drecker (Thomas […]