HBO's 'Hung' Films in Metro Detroit
Tuesday July 7, 2009
HBO's new series Hung revolves around Ray Drecker, a forty-something, high-school teacher (Thomas Jane), who is struggling to make ends meet. As a result, he is forced to make a desperate decision regarding his biggest asset: to moonlight as a male gigolo. 
Thomas Jane and Jane Adams at 'Hung' Premiere © Jason Merritt / Getty Images The show is set in Detroit, which, as always, plays the city in decline, its economic plight paralleling that of the show's main character.
Outside of a montage in the show's pilot that includes shots of old Tiger Stadium being ripped down, an abandoned auto plant and the still-standing Michigan Central Depot, the other locations in the series give a more balanced view of the Metro-Detroit area, including RiverWalk, Hart Plaza, Lafayette Coney Island, MotorCity Casino Hotel, Harpo's, and a house along Middle Straits Lake in West Bloomfield.
Check out the show's opening-title sequence that has Jane disrobing as he walks from Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit all the way to one of the city's more remote northern suburbs -- quite a hike in reality.
Rumor has it that future episodes will feature Metro Beach, Kodiak Creek Inn in Commerce Township and Portofino's Restaurant in Wyandotte.
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Thomas Jane and Jane Adams at 'Hung' Premiere © Jason Merritt / Getty Images
Outside of a montage in the show's pilot that includes shots of old Tiger Stadium being ripped down, an abandoned auto plant and the still-standing Michigan Central Depot, the other locations in the series give a more balanced view of the Metro-Detroit area, including RiverWalk, Hart Plaza, Lafayette Coney Island, MotorCity Casino Hotel, Harpo's, and a house along Middle Straits Lake in West Bloomfield.
Check out the show's opening-title sequence that has Jane disrobing as he walks from Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit all the way to one of the city's more remote northern suburbs -- quite a hike in reality.
Rumor has it that future episodes will feature Metro Beach, Kodiak Creek Inn in Commerce Township and Portofino's Restaurant in Wyandotte.
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Comments
The lead character isn’t a “gigolo.” He’s a prostitute. Is that so hard to say?
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