http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18384
--- Comment #10 from EA Durbin ead1234@hotmail.com 2009-05-29 18:05:24 --- after doing a WINEDEBUG=+wininet, it appears hulu desktop is trying to decompress gzip encoded content, it also appears there's a patch in the pipeline for this
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2009-May/073537.html
I'll test it and see if it fixes it.