TV Studs: A History

BY: PROVOKR Staff

Jimmy McNulty, The Wire
One of the flawed police heroes of HBO’s legendary crime saga, McNulty (Dominic West, who’s currently playing a philanderer on The Affair) would take the edge off of his grueling workday by hitting the bottle and any woman who veered into his boozy orbit. That’s right—he busted drug dealers by day, and then indulged his sex addiction at night.

 

Don Draper, Mad Men
In addition to his creative genius and con artist skills, ’60s adman Don Draper (Jon Hamm) had a gift for picking up women. He cheated his way through two marriages, sleeping with more than 20 women—from stewardesses to call girls—over the show’s seven seasons. 

 

Jason Stackhouse, True Blood
“God gave that boy a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one of ’em.” That’s how one character described Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten), True Blood’s biggest bedhopper. He had a weakness for vampires and humans alike—and even slept with a woman who used to be his high school teacher.

 

Hank Moody, Californication
Here’s how the libido-driven writer Hank Moody (David Duchovny) summed up his world view: “A morning of awkwardness is far better than a night of loneliness.” The myriad number of one-night stands he racked up over the series’s seven-year run proves that he’s a man of his word.  

 

Brian Kinney, Queer as Folk
When he wasn’t prowling the back room of the local bar, Brian Kinney (Gale Harold)—the lead of Showtime’s gay drama series—was hooking up with so many other guys that the LGBT community worried that he was a bad representative of their lives.