They’re Hank’s challenge as well as his reward. But neither are pushovers, easily willing to look past Hank’s indiscretions and that’s what makes them such great characters. He’s carefree, talented, intelligent and irresistibly charming and despite all of the screw-ups and screwing-around, they still want him in their lives. They love him for all of the reasons we do. It’s easy to identify with Karen and Becca in the way they see Hank. And on the other hand, we see his constant desire to claim the happily-ever-after future he wants to have with Becca and Karen, if only he could stop putting himself in such compromising situations. Far from perfect and often the victim of his own crimes, there’s a part of me that wants to see him get what he has coming to him, especially when his actions hurt Becca and Karen. What I love about Californication is that I often have a hard time knowing how to feel about Hank Moody. And since we’re on the subject, it needs to be said that Pamela Adlon is funnier than ever in Season 4.Īlso among the guest appearances are Zoe Kravitz (who plays the lead singer of the band Becca joins) and Michael Ealy (playing her father.) Later on in the season, you’ll see Tommy Lee and Rescue Me’s Callie Thorne. He takes an interest in Marcy but she has her own issues to deal with this season. Stephen Tobolowsky plays Stu Beggs, the producer on the movie. He’s barely recognizable behind his shrub-like goatee and insane enthusiasm for his craft. That might be hard to picture but Lowe commits to the role perfectly. Nero’s a scruffier, more crass version of Hank, with a side of crazy. Rob Lowe plays Eddie Nero, an actor who might play Hank in the movie. Introduced to the story is Sasha Bingham (Addison Timlin), the Hollywood starlet cast to play Mia. The struggle to get the movie made presents a whole new set of challenges and characters. It amazes me that the creator of season one would allow the show to devolve like this, let alone be the sole person responsible for it.Hank’s back behind the wheel of his book now that everyone knows he wrote it and he’s put to the task of writing the script for the movie. I'm truly shocked that Kapinos is still the one writing this show. And he doesn't seem to care much about his friend's spiraling out of control, such as when he brings him pot to his rehab center. (Remember in the pilot episode how he asked Hank whether he was OK, needed help, etc.? Told him to get it together?) Now, Runkle is basically just the butt end of jokes when Hank is around. Runkle still acted respectfully around Hank, to preserve his status as an agent, and inquired into his personal life when he thought he had hit rock bottom. In the early seasons Hank had a brotherly relationship with him, but they were still pretty straightforward with each other. Also, as much as I love Runkle and how pathetic he is, his relationship with Hank has become more ridiculous than ever. They've basically "Crazy Little Thing Called Love'd" Californication, and viewers of the show will understand what I mean by that. It's no wonder that Hank seems to be appealing more to the masses now as a character, since he is essentially turning into a caricature - a sort of idiot manchild that Hank in season one would have railed against. The show has developed little trademarks for the characters (I can't quote Hank's - it involves profanity) that is turning it more and more into a silly sitcom. But now, he's taking oral sex from drunk grieving widows behind tombstones and his apathy is sort of comical rather than earnest. He loved Karen and Becca and often found himself in sexual scenarios where he tried, but failed (his relationship with the adulteress, for example). He had that whole "Hell-A" rant about how the city corrupts its women. A big appeal of S1 was that Hank, while a womanizer, still respected women. Meanwhile the Sex Pistols guy is making out with a couple hotties, the Russell Brand dude is talking about drugging his wife so he can screw another girl, and Hank is trying to get into Maggie Grace's panties while cracking jokes about bodily fluids on the floor and butt-****ery. Female-on-male rape can be kinda funny just due to the novelty of it, but it has to be handled well, and in this episode it's just dumb and sleazy. Last episode has Charlie basically getting raped by a drunk woman up her butt (haha! it's funny because it's anal!), which is pretty disgusting (how funny would it be if the genders were reversed?). The sexual hijinks and gross-out factor is getting insulting. This season is better than last, but that's not saying much. I wanted to write a bit of a rant, however, on why this now may be the worst comedy on cable. "Californication" was once a promising comedy, something that spoke to my love of classic rock, English, Bill Hicks, Bukowski and Hunter S.
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