I thought a little bit about HBO’s “Hung” while getting caught up on AMC’s “Breaking Bad’s” third season on iTunes this weekend. Both shows depict middle-aged high school teachers raising money with illegal means — prostitution and cooking, meth, respectably — while keeping their extracurriculars secret from their families. Suburban, middle-class crime and transgression may be the big unifying theme of contemporary cable dramas.
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This week, prostitution was barely present. One subplot, when Tanya tries to land a rich potential client, gives Tanya a chance to brush up her salesmanship, but has nothing really to do with illicit sexuality. Ray’s ambivalence about having sex with last week’s pregnant client is more about his disappointment with his own failed marriage. (And, why was he putting together her crib, anyway? It’s like the joke when a prostitute says “I’ll do anything you want” and the client says “Paint my house.”) There’s a littile male aggrandizement here, in the implication that Ray’s so sexually satisfying, the client may reject giving her estranged husband a second chance. He’s probably one of those Ronnie types.

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