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A New Kind Of Punisher!! Thomas Jane To Star In HBO’s Penile Sitcom Pilot HUNG!!
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Thomas Jane (“The Punisher”) has landed the lead in “Hung,” HBO’s sitcom pilot about a basketball coach with an awesome penis.
Alexander Payne (“Election,” “About Schmidt,” “Sideways”) directs from a teleplay by Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson (“The Riches”).
Read all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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I love Tom Jane's weener!
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I wonder if HBO's planning on using one of their "Tell Me You Love Me" prostheses. Unless the show was custom-tailored for TJ's actual equipment... the mind reels...
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I'm sold.
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Nah for real. Get the fuck outta here!!
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Somebody got around to doing my biography!
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the show looks lame...but if jane is in it, thats good enuf for me
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Who knows, it may be very good...but HBO is usually hit or miss for me. Hopefully Thomas can add a different kind of aesthetic to the script.
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Totally sold. I'm there.
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...some washed-up middle-aged actress playing a Lesbionic High School Volley Ball Coach WITH...a giant wiener. And she's a vampire. No, her wiener is a vampire and she doesn't know it!
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except i'm not a basketball coach in real life.
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Kinda surprised for what passes as an HBO series these days- especially after following Rome, Entourage, Sopranos, Carnivale, Deadwood, and John from Cincinnati. This is the kind of thing that wouldn't surprise me on Showtime, but HBO? The hell, you say...
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The man has a 10 incher, and it touches the water when he sits on the toilet to shit.
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thomas jane, all around nice guy and geezer. respect! thought he was really good in the mist. this looks to be an interesting show. how much trouble can a penis bring to a man? this show will last a billion seasons
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but the involvement of both alexander payne and thomas jane means i'll have to watch it. it's just going to be completely awkward sitting there with my girlfriend and watching this show. and assuming it's good, can you imagine the watercooler talk it will generate? it already gives me douche chills thinking about what kind of awkward conversation it will prompt.
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Now where the fuck is the Preacher series you promised?
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Aug 01, 2008 6:45:15 AM CDT
Is this the same HBO that had Rome, Deadwood, Carnivale and The
by imagikafan
Wow. How the mighty have fallen.
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because they can. a sitcom about a guy with a huge wang only works on pay cable, it wouldn't fly on NBC. I'm sure this show will suck balls, or cock
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I thought Jane had a sci-fi movie in the can for wide release or was it a DVD only.
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Wow, talk about a company losing its way...
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Aug 01, 2008 7:19:44 AM CDT
hbo needs to fire whoever is making their programming choices
by palewook
b/c none of the shit that's been green lit in the past 2 years has been worth a crap.
they are reaching with "Hung." could be briefly interesting or quickly forgettable. -
It makes me wonder why anyone on AICN shows enthusiasm for their proposed series based on George R.R. Martin's books. They shortchanged Rome, Deadwood, and Carnivale. Their last "provocative" show, Tell Me You Love Me, just got the knife in the back. Now we get John Thomas Jane in twelve episodes of glory before he's hitting the bricks again for another job.
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What?!! We may now proceed to the impending apocalypse.
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They need to be able to edit it for basic cable reruns and have enough clean minutes to fill a time slot + ads. And who is this show for? Gay men who want to see dicks or straight men who want to see non-stop tits and ass that having a huge dick supposedly gets? Prediction: nobody likes this.
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Since the channel is run by feminists and gays.
Now that the Sopranos is gone, you cant even see decent female nudity on HBO shows anymore.
This is why we dont have Carnivale and Deadwood......for shows they put into production than cancel unaired(12MOBR),2 shows about people bitching and complaining in therapy, bad vampire sex and programs about some dudes schlong. -
No wonder his star doesn't shine brighter... Poor role choices.
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on HBO or Showtime would be awesome. Imagine it like the Shield meets Dexter. Frank just killing the shit out of criminals who have escaped justice
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from sopranos to carnivale to deadwood to the wire to this crap? and therapy shows? fire all these execs
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Ray Stevenson would be awesome.
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indeed sounds like something more fitting for Showtime- but as for all these "my how HBO has fallen" moes- I guess none of them are currently watching Generation Kill. Fucking shame.
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Somebody had just finished passing around the bong when they came up and agreed on this idea.
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Sure. Why not?
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Have you been watching Gen Kill? It's fantastic. We still have Entourage and Curb and the TruBlood coming.
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generation kill isn't fantastic. its adequate. the book is far more enjoyable. and the editing job done on the series removes most of the emotional impact from the book.
if you enjoy the series, read generation kill. if you are a fan of that book, you might try "One Bullet Away." Which is the story told from Fick's Hummer. Whereas Generation Kill is the story told from Colbert's Hummer.
The Officer's leading Bravo & Alpha agree on several things in both books, including the characterization of Capt America. -
penile imPLANT!
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man don't even get me started on how pimp a Garth Ennis Punisher series could be. would make the old spawn animation look like a kids cartoon..
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HBO is maybe the worst offender. They have the freedom to use more nudity and profanity, so they lean on those crutches instead of concentrating on telling good stories. Six Feet Under is a good example of how having freedom in storytelling leads to creative disaster. After the first season the show became so insufferably cute and pretentious and self aware, it quickly became impossible to watch.
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BTW, wouldn't this be considered the anti-Deadwood? (see the joke I made there?)
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So you guys can suck my TJ balls.
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I mean, there are innumerable shows out there in cableland centered on nothing more than slo-mo shots of wet tits. It's about time for some full-frontal maleness. Equal time. Equal time.
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internal memo from HBO. True.
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And it sucked balls. Seriously. The vampires were pathetic. I remember saying those are the most pathetic vampires Ive ever seen after seeing Underworld. well not anymore.The dialogue was horrible. The 1 hour felt like 4,dragging forever. The characters were boring and it had the most unintentially funny sex scene Ive ever seen in my life. I lauged for nearly a hour. I cant believe Alan Ball was involved in that piece of crap. And I have been watching GenKill and find it just ok. Looking foward to The Pacific. But HBO programming is in dire need of some life. I dont think its gonna come from the likes of Tell Me You Love Me, In Therapy (whos new season wont be air until fall 2010!). Big Bore... I mean Love or a show about a guys cock. They cancelled 12 Miles of Bad Road unaired. They making a S&TC wanna be with a latin cast in Miami- that sounds exciting. I do love Entourage but think thats only got a couple seasons left.
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So the polesmokers who run HBO have come up with a show about big cocks...there's a shocker.
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I was being sarcastic when I said that sounds exciting.
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if it does somehow turn out to be good, HBO will cancel it. AMC seems to be getting all the new shows that should have gone to HBO.
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The channel is turning into Bravo or Logo.
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We'll have to agree to disagree I guess. I didn't read Gen Kill but I did read the original Rolling Stone articles when they first came out that the book was based on, and the HBO series is perfectly in tone with those pieces.
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...just want my kids back!
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...what's next?
TESTICLES: THE MUSICAL !!! -
I never thought of an animated Punisher, but it could work. I was actually thinking Ray Stevenson in a very dark series where you take equal parts Vic Mackey, Jack Bauer and Dexter Morgan, and make the baddest vigilante in the history of the universe. Each week could be stories in the vein of a law and order episode, where criminals have gotten away with the disgusting things they do (rape, murder, child molestation, etc) and the law hasn't touched them. Then for whatever reason, they come under Frank's radar and SQUASH! (in new and interesting ways each week of course). Maybe a little carry over storyline from time to time. The budget wouldn't have to be big, as there wouldn't be that much special effect work except lots of blood letting. I don't know why one of the cable channels haven't thought of it.
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My God, what is this ridiculous obsession with sex? What kind of degenerate pervert was at the meeting came up with this drivel. This is almost as bad as seeing these commercials for levitra, cialis, and viagra. If your old, and physically unable to get it up, just stop having sex. Phucken hippies!
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Hey, HBO, you're not lookin' too god lately. Remember back when things started turning good? Remember the first season of Oz? Remember how everyone started taking you seriously then, and you didn't have to play secret sex tapes anymore? Remember the Sopranos? Remember how everyone started to think you were the cream of the crop? Man, things were good for a little while, weren't they, baby. Then Deadwood. That was a great show too, wasn't it? I wonder how it ended, I guess I forgot to tune in for that. And Carnivale. That might be my favorite show, baby, but I guess I forgot to tune in for the end of that too. Well, anyway, I was wondering if you had and shows about giant butts, I'd like that, I cannot lie. Oh, you don't have one of those? Okay, well how about a giant penis, then. Okay, great, I'll make sure to tune in for the end of that, right after I catch up on John From Cincinatti. That show really seems like its going somewhere.
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I'm STUNNED at how inept Hollywood has become at develop good stories for television and theatrical release. With Jane's connection to Boogie Nights I really have to roll my eyes that he agreed to be in this project. And Payne is a loser for directing the pilot. The reason that Dream On was successful was because it was built around a likable and endearing concept. A guy who is divorced and the product of the clean 50's TV generation attempts to have an active social life while being a father.
"Hung" sounds like glorified porn. Maybe all of us who work in the industry should just start pitching projects where the premises would work perfectly for a porno. In Treatment is a perfect example of this. If they had really wanted to Byrne could have been having sex with his patients.
Rome was also designed to have sex.
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Carnivale and The Wire were the best shows HBO has ever done...Period. Oz was decent but cheap looking most of the time. Provocative though. The Sopranos was watchable but lets be real...It was Analyze This but done seriously.
Carnivale and The Wire. And the sad reality is HBO treated both those shows like TV pariahs they didn't want to have anything to do with...And so no one watched them. -
Aug 01, 2008 1:17:56 PM CDT
I'm also getting tired of all these films and tv shows about hol
by fassbinder79
i.e. Entourage, Californication and What Just Happened.
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...right? It uses every male sterotype there is, then FLIPS it by showing how awful/comical it is. "Look! He has a giant cock ...but, he's sad because his wife makes more than him... Oh, will the hilarity of the American male ever cease?!" Now all HBO needs is an hourlong commenting on discrimination in America through the use of an unbelievably obvious metaphor...
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Rumor he looks like a tripod naked on the beach.
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Next series.
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That's it, I need to move to LA and save Hollywood.
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I'm afraid it is, kid...
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But the idea just screams of trying too hard to be risque.
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and start working on the Song of Ice and Fire series.
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so you know I have to see that.
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farther behind if this is what we've come to as a society. And no that pun was not intentional. Get your mind out of the gutter.
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Sons of Anarchy actually looks interesting. think ron perlman and katy sagal are in it too.
gram, would have to agree about the "ow my balls" level HBO has sunk into. Idiocracy 4TW. -
it was kucinich's vp in 2004's election.
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I got a blowjob in new zealand. I was in australia at the time.
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I'm taller laying down that standing up.
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I'd wear my cock as a tie if I wasn't afraid I'd see a girl with big boobs and strangle myself.
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it plays stadiums.
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it was a roadie for crosby stills and nash for two years.
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you may not speak to it unless spoken to first.
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I went to The Viper Room and my dick got right in. I had to stand there and argue with the doorman.
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historians estimate it took 100,000 slave workers over 20 years to build it.
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it has a license.
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it has its own dick. And even my dick's dick is bigger than your dick.
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it takes four fat women and a team of Clydesdales to jack me off.
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it’s got its own gang sign.
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I can fuck the ocean.
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it snubbed the Oscars.
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it had a walk on part in magnum p.i.
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one side never sees the sun – it’s the dark side of my dick.
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it was framed for the murder of it's wife as part of an intricate prescription drug scandal.
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someone once used it as a lifeline on, ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire?”
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I use it to spear fish.
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it has its own line of hip hop clothing.
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if I didn’t sleep on my side, planes would crash into it at night.
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...right? RIGHT? Yeah, I can see a BIG market (get it, BIG...BWAH-HAH and HAH!) for this. Sounds stupid...bah!
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it’s my boss.
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it graduated a year before I did.
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it was part of the human evolution.
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the head of it has only seen my balls in pictures.
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I’m already fucking a girl tomorrow.
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it was overthrown by a military coup. It's now known as the Democratic Republic of My Dick.
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it has a personal trainer.
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it contains billions and billions of stars.
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it only tips with hundreds.
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when I get an erection my eyebrows get pulled down to my neck.
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movie theaters now serve popcorn in small, medium, large, and My Dick.
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it posts big dick jokes.
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it won a medal for weight lifting at the olympics in 2000.
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"The Penisher"!
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it has an agent. My dick's people will call your people. Let's have lunch with my dick.
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it warps the space-dick continuum.
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it costs a fortune to heat.
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it makes a Porsche want to buy a Ferrari.
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it has a really good beach and several ok ones.
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it hosted Saturday Night Live.
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...already appears to have found a market at AICN...the 14 year old male demographic. How ironic...
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the Eskimos have over 40 unique words that mean ‘my dick’.
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Whenever I see bullshit like this get greenlit, I have to think that it involved *someone's* penis.
And is this really the best offer Tom Jane had in the pipeline? -
like rain on your wedding day?
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Whenever I see bullshit like this get greenlit, I have to think that it involved *someone's* penis.
And is this really the best offer Tom Jane had in the pipeline? -
you’d better just get the Cliff’s Notes version.
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its become aloof; maintaining just a nodding acquaintance with my balls, and won’t even speak to my asshole anymore.
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Kind of like my internet connection today...
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I’m already banging my next girlfriend’s best friend.
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its behind you.
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just a horribly disfigured boy child. He spends his life as a freak until he meats (yes, meats) a giant vagina that is really just a horribly disfigured girl child. The last episode would be them fucking, and as they fuck, they expand, juices shooting everywhere, growing larger and larger, until they envelop the city, state, country, world, solar system, galaxy, universe, until they finally cum and create an entirely new universe for which we can begin anew in the cosmic rebirth of outsized genitalia. The End.
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but season 2 of Tell me that you love me has been cancelled http://tinyurl.com/6j337k .
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Damn good.
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The first season of Oz is one of the best seasons of television I've ever seen. I've only seen a couple episodes of the second season as of now, but it seems a lot more "TV" than the first one, which is sort of a shame, but the show should have just ended after eight episodes.
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And the Sopranos was the show that gave HBO the general credibility to do basically whatever they wanted, and they fucked that chance up royally. The Wire, I've only seen a couple episodes of, and they were great. It sounds like its an amazing show, though, and I'm looking forward to seeing more.
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Aug 01, 2008 11:22:13 PM CDT
Just to prove that Hollywood's ideas are pure CRAP...
by theghostwholurks
They give us THIS.It's this type of retarded garbage that prevents me from ever buying pay cable.
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The Punisher as an HBO show would be almost perfect
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"Come on Milt, just take enough out to win the bet for me."
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Seriously, if you gave a bunch of 13 year-old boys a network to run they'd give HBO a run for its money.
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Seriously, if you gave a bunch of 13 year-old boys a network to run they'd give HBO a run for its money.
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..but the inside joke is that his dick size will rival the brothas' on the basketball team.Fuck! HBO what happened to ya,Nowadays the only thing worth watching is Real time with Bill maher, whenever that shit will come back on.As for Jane I know the man has gotta eat, but there's no way i'm wathcing this shit. it's like this series is marketed to a demographic that consists of Women and Homosexuals.Good for them. Shit it might as well be called Hancock...oh wait..!!
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just play the mivk again...this better be fuckin funny, if not cancel it and bring back lucky louis...what the hell happened to preacher?!?!?!?
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