pilot episode 1 s01e01 onlineHBO premieres a new comedy series entitled Hung. If the title sounds like what you think it is, you’re right. In the series pilot (episode 1), we are introduced to our hero, Ray Drecker played by Thomas Jane. He is the local basketball coach and high school teacher who seems to be down on his luck – his wife has left him for another man and fire burns down his house. Seemingly at the end of his rope, he tries to use his God-given assets to turn things around, and from the title alone (Hung), you know what it is.

Years ago in high school, Ray Drecker was athletic, popular, and destined for success. Now, as a high school teacher and basketball coach, he’s underpaid, uninsured, and embittered that his wife of 20 years has left him for her dermatologist. After a fire damages the rundown Detroit home he inherited from his parents, Ray’s fortunes reach an all-time low when his twin children, who had been living with him, move in with their mom and her clean-freak hubby. Lonely, run-down and at wit’s end, Ray attends a local self-help class whose mantra is to identify a personal “winning tool” to market for financial success. After a not-so-fulfilling encounter with a fellow attendee – an ex-flame and would-be poet named Tanya – Ray has a “eureka” moment. With the help of Tanya, Ray resolves to take advantages of his greatest asset, in hopes of changing his fortune in a big way.

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