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How Hung Is He?

Caryn James takes on Hung, HBO's saucy new comedy about an exceptionally well-endowed man.

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We never see the humongous dick that gives HBO’s wry new comedy series Hung its title. But why would we, when this show about a financially strapped high-school coach who becomes a prostitute is—like prostitution itself—more about money than sex? In this upscale comedy about downward mobility, our whore and...

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