Hung Coverage: A Fun, Yet Uneventful Finale

Episode Commentary: “The Whole Beefalo”

This was a finale that will eventually be remembered for how it was the start of a more equal opportunity sitcom, than for providing truly entertaining television. For the first 2.9 seasons, people the likes of Ray, Lenore and Charlie were able to assert their dominant personalities and get their way most of the time.

While it was sometimes predictable, it made for some fun television.

This episode changes that entire dichotomy. With Tanya, Sandee and Jessica’s small victories and even Mike Hunt’s wedding last week, “Hung” is moving away from the successful formula it had for most of this season. While these stories are more realistic and show that even the fragile have limits, it wasn’t nearly as sexy a conclusion as you would have expected.

Who wants to see a happy ending or even a vanilla one when your show revolves around a male whore and his feminist liberal pimp?

Aside from the scene between Lenore and Jason, there was little to drool over here.

Instead, it was more like plot building for season four.

Not exactly the best thing to do for a season finale.

The excitement essentially came from the encounter between Sandee and Lenore. You knew it was ultimately going to happen, but the execution of the scene felt rushed and weird. The bottom line is that Lenore won’t die. She means too much to the show as a sex symbol and a catalyst. Considering that, it’s sad the creative team didn’t decide to do something spicer with these characters.

The same thing goes for Charlie’s character. It was obvious he was going to give up his cows and let Tanya get the win after she showed a spine with him for the first time. While it was fun watching Jane Adams try to drag around a cow, it felt disconnected with the rest of the season.

It doesn’t tarnish it though. In spite of this gaff and the lack of conversation between Ray and Jessica after she finds out his secret, the season finale was serviceable. While it won’t entice new viewers to the show, the faithful will wait until next year, to at least see what the fate of Lenore is. That’s got to count for something.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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