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"G" to the double "O" to the "D" (as Hank would say)
This is not a show for minors, it is filled with "the sex". David Duchovny plays a thirtysomething sex addicted writer, Hank Moody, who let the love of his life get away from him. This show revolves around him trying to find his place in his world, whilst drowning in a sea of never ending women(I'll be polite), and realizing that he wants more.
The show is pretty funny, Davids Character Hank is quite self destructive, which becomes readily apprent in the first epsiode, and most every other one that follows.
The show has the ability to be down right raunchy one minute, hilarious the next, and sad all within the same episode. It is a good show. I recommend watching it, due to the hilarity of watching David Duchovny as he interacts with all these women, who constantly drive him crazy, among other things.
Overall Rating - 5/5 Stars
Video - 4/5
Audio - 4/5
Bonus - 2/5
Story - 5/5
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Entourage killer!
What an amazing show and pilot season. David Duchovny is simply brilliant! This show is in the same vein as Entourage, but in my opinion has a better story. Be prepared to watch a lot of sex, but also have plenty of laughs.
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Finally a show that hasn't been watered down for the masses
Current day Los Angeles: Hank Moody (David Duchovny) a New York based writer up roots his family and moves to California after his novel "God Hates Us All" finds great success and is to be made into a movie ironically named "A Crazy Little Thing Called Love". The change ends up being too much for Hank and his girlfriend Karen (Natascha McElhone) and after an infidelity by Karen the relationship ends with Karen and their daughter moving in with her new boyfriend Bill. Hank who is already a dark and sarcastic person wallows in a sea of depression and self loathing as he is constantly reminded of his mistake in never marrying Karen and the disgusting rom/com of a movie his book was made into. Without Karen to act as his muse Hank's career is in shambles just like the rest of his life. He continuously wades into a sea of bad women and partying in an attempt to fill the void in his life and fills the rest of his time shamelessly trying to win Karen back from her new fiancé Bill...
What a refreshing show! With a mountain of lame "Reality TV" on one side and a sea of insipid regurgitated, "watered down for the masses and censors" dramas and comedies on the other it is nice to finally watch something that grabs my attention and holds on tight. So much of today's programming just feels like it has been run through some magic formula. I can almost hear the TV executives in the background as I watch "Let's make this character black so we get the black demo, this one should be gay so we get the gay demo, and this one should be a single mother..." UGH, puke! It all feels way too formulaic. Californication brings something fresh, edgy, smart and vulgar enough to feel real and be entertaining at the same time.
The Good: Finally an interesting character. Duchovny nails the Hank Moody character and brings his sarcastic wit perfectly to the screen. Each episode brings great individual stories while the theme an undercurrent is constantly propelled forward. No shortage of beautiful women and for the man (or woman) that appreciates the feminine form, you won't be disappointed. I have seen complaints that many of the women Hank becomes involved in aren't women of substance but they must have missed the fact that there is basically only one woman of substance in Hank's universe and that is Karen. Hank himself says he isn't interested in a "good girl" in the course of the show so it should be no surprise that he almost never finds any. He already found the girl he was looking for and all the others are just a way to fill the hours of the day.
The Bad: Wasn't bad for me but for those of a prudish nature the show is vulgar and there is no shortage of cali-fornication in case you didn't catch the title of the show.
Overall: This is the best show I have seen in a long time. Get your hands on a copy of this today!
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a misogynist's fantasy
i love david duchovny, and i really wanted to love this series. it is doing nothing to improve showtime's reputation as a "low-rent, more tawdry HBO" or "HBO for the lotion and kleenex set." but who can blame a fellow? he's over forty (though gorgeous as ever) and i'm sure parts are scarce.
i cannot believe any self-respecting woman could sit through this nonsense. i have never in my life met anyone who behaves in the lewd, man-pleasing, sex-hungry, degrading and debasing manner almost every female character in this show participates in NOR DO I WANT TO. i started counting how much time it took from the introduction of a new female character to either her breasts-exposing or her full-frontal nudity scene and got to about three seconds. the plots are ridiculous and contrived and these poor women are given absolutely NO PLAUSIBLE dialogue to recite whatsoever. however, i get the feeling somehow that "dialogue" is not the point.
the women of californication are depicted as man-hungry manipulative bitches, power obsessed pseudo-dykes, long-suffering/tragically neglected wife/mates, sexless angelic innocents, vapid idiots, careerist models, good-time prostitutes, clueless valley girls, or frigid, vindictive, spiteful shrews. NO THANKS. you get the feeling watching this that there is no sensitivity or creativity left at all in L.A. , just a bunch of morality-free house cats mawling around from one cheap conquest to the next.
this is an excuse to get beautiful women naked and salaciously glorify degeneracy, not to expose it as anything comprehensive or real. i'm all for the darker side of life--i enjoy my henry miller and charles bukowski as much as anyone else--but unfortunately this comes across as just nicely-shot trash.
"six feet under" has characters which are much more interesting and better written, as does "the L word..." (first season) and at least the women on these shows have something to *SAY*, not just something to *SHOW.* if the purpose here was to "expose" hollywood for being a shameless, corrupt filth factory ... i guess.... good job? there is a way to be erotic without being a lurid, and a way to depict drug and alcohol use and abusive without being inauthentic to the true experience of doing drugs and drinking or being just plain stupid.
"the comeback," "extras," "the larry sanders show," "curb your enthusiasm," and even to a certain degree "entourage," and "fat actress" are better "insider" accounts of life in LA, and much less intellectually offensive. this is just sad.
i expected more from a princeton graduate.
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ROFLMAO
Not for children, prudes or people who take life too seriously. David Duchovny went from playing a sweet curious Mulder on X-Files to Hank Moody, an "X RATED" file himself. Hank is a writer, loving father to a daughter, ex-husband, addicted, self-indulgent DOG who finds and lets himself get into all kinds of trouble, expecially with women. He suffers from writer's block, weekend dad syndrom, deeply loving his ex, alcoholism, weed and nicotine addiction, and can't control his baser sexual earges with women. Anything goes and the guilt and remorse he feels about it all just keeps him in the cycle. Not a role you would expect David Duchovny to play in a series, least of all as graghic and explicit as it is but he does it soooo well. Who would have thought? Not me!! Anyone other than Duchovny and it would just be junk. Highly entertaining and I laughed til I cried.
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