What does one put in their first blog post? We'll do this:

I used to love the original programming on HBO. Mr. Show, Dream On, The Larry Sanders Show, Tenacious D, Tales from the Crypt, 1st & 10. It was all quite "original" and refreshing, bawdy and unencumbered by censors or typical canned Hollywood thinking.

Then something changed. The Sopranos. Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate the quality that went into the first 2 seasons of the Sopranos, and heck Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men exec produced some of the better episodes, but since then they have hit kind of a dry spell. John From Cincinnati anyone? So wait, you quit making Deadwood to make that?! Mind of the Married Man? (putrescence). Here's hoping they get better.

Hung seems to be treading the line between Dream On and something better. It could be very funny. Belly laugh funny not groan inducing funny as it is right now, if only they would stop with the terrible puns. As some poet once said to me, "puns are the worst." Puns are funny for a second not for 30 minutes. The concept of the show treads similar ground and concepts as Six Feet Under as in the weird doings of Mainstream America (read: white people do the darnedest things!).

Alexander Payne directed the Pilot. He has a great sense of tone as displayed in his near classic Election and surely the under appreciated although Oscar winning Sideways ("I hate f*cking Merlot!!") Dmitry Lipkin, late of The Riches also has a really good sense of the odd but the the sight gags and innumerable d*ck jokes and puns are exhausting and unnecessary. The second episode was better in tone though. We''ll see...