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Give it a try! I did and was pleasingly surprised
Ok. I was a little reluctant to watch this show... to begin with the explicit name -which I still don't like much- troubled me, as well as the misleading idea of it being too sexed up for its own good.
I took a deep breath, gave it a chance and was quite pleased. Duchovny -probably in his best role since the world met him as Agent Fox Mulder- gets to bright as troubled Hank Moody, a blocked writer who is fully aware he has lost track of his own life, immersing himself in a series of situations from which it will be quite difficult to reemerge. The key in here is that no matter what kind of immoral behaviour Hank has -which, you get it, he obviously has-, you get the feeling he is, in his core, a good man. An authentic guy who has no qualms in admitting his own decline...But will he be able to find the right path again?? Does such thing really exists?? Will he be willing to change his erratic ways? Will his willingness suffice?
Season 1 ended with the possibility of a new beginning, a second chance...but whether it will work, we will have to wait for season 2. I know I am.
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Not as good as people are making it out to be
This show wants to be the small screen serialization of Bret Easton Ellis or Jay McInerney, but it doesn't quite get there. It doesn't have the depth, and it feels too much like other "struggling creative guy in the big city" comedy dramas we've seen. Good to watch for Duchovny, though.
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Meet Hank Moody
Meet Hank Moody. Note the last name. Some obvious symbolism there. Also, note the first name, which is, I suspect, and homage to Charles "Hank" Bukowski, who is mentioned in the series. Moody, like Bukowski, is a hard drinking writer, smoker, father of one child (a daughter), chronicler of L.A. hedonism, literary purist, and a guy who has issues with the ladies (though, who doesn't?). David Duchovny has found the best role of his life. I know. X Files fans might not like that. But here, Duchovny is able to employ a wider range of emotions. I thought X Files had typecast him. I was wrong. This is the best acting I've seen him do.
Duchovny gets help from a very good supporting cast, the best of which is his bald, kinky agent. Also in Hank's life are his Wednesday Adams-like daughter, his muse baby momma, his agent's wife (played by the voice of "King of the Hill's" Bobby Hill), a Suicide Girls mistress, and an underage Lolita, Mia, who is Hank's baby momma's fiancé's daughter. Got that?
The series tracks Moody as he tries to get back into writing after seeing his greatest novel turned into a piece of Hollywood treacle. He hates blogging, but take a gig as a blogger and then uses the forum to trash L. A. superficiality, text messaging, and the blogging medium itself. But hey, it's work.
The dialogue crackles and each 30 minute show flies by. The biggest problem I had with the show is Hank's womanizing. Sure, Duchovny is a good looking cat. And sure, I can believe a nationally known writer would have some luck getting laid. But it seems Hank can't leave the house without some model-thin bimbo falling in his lap for quickie sex.
Nor can I believe some of the confrontation scenes, especially the one in the last episode involving Hank fighting with a married couple to get his daughter a box of tampons. Yeah, it's great when earlier in the season Hank shouts down a guy who answers his cell phone at the movies. But in real life, Hank would've been arrested for assaulting the guy. That is, if the guy on the cell phone didn't kill him first. Still, it's nice to see Hank take on jerks bigger than him. And for all his faults, Hank is in a defender of basic human decency.
I'm not sure if I was satisfied by The Graduate-esque finale (a freeze frame, really?). But I'm glad to see Duchovny taking on a different role, especially one some might think obscene. If you don't like NC-17 movies, you won't like NC-17 TV. But, I think Californication is one of the funniest shows I've seen in a while. You could almost watch the whole thing in one sitting.
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Pales in comparison to other "behaving badly" shows, unoriginal, unfunny
Very good acting, the rest of this is a mess of cliches and platitudes for aging hipster wannabes. Nothing original to see here. Compare to much better shows of the genre such as Weeds and Entourage, to see just how lacking this is. Actually fell asleep on the couch during some of the sex scenes.
Only wrote this as got gypped buying the boxed set based on all the shill or misguided reviews here and wanted to add some objectivity. The amazon ratings are way off on this one.
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Looking for a cockpunch?
This show has absolutely no redeeming value to it, except that there are a whole lot of big fake boobies bouncing around. It is not clever. It is not funny. The mangled versions of music we love are not art. I love David Duchovney and Mulder like any young woman. I love boobies and clever comedy like any young woman. But this. show. is. completely. stupid.
There it is.
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