Californication is a new series which stars everyone’s favourite conspiracy theorist – David Duchovny! He plays Hank Moody – a writer’s block author who had a few great novels in the past, even one that got butchered into a film.
Hank lives on his own but has a daughter Becca with the love of his life Karen but Karen is marrying some other guy because Hank and Karen are no longer together (for whatever reason). The series follows Hank’s pursuits with women as well as the cure to his writer’s block.
I love David Duchovny in this show. He is so sarcastic. I love it. I also like the situations that he gets into which are rip-roaring funny. Couple this with a great theme of the love of music (where every episode title is a song name) and there is always talk of musical pop culture references – (my fave – “What you need is a guitar that is timeless, and classic, and looks like Keith Richards threw up all over it in the 70s.). The character development is amazing. I love these characters and all their idiosyncrasies.
This show does not disappoint and it’s probably one of my more favourite series since Friends and that’s saying a lot. Mike and I enjoy the show thoroughly and he said he sister watched the entire season while she was up here for the past two days and she loved it also.
My only caveat for people who are interested in checking it out is that it’s not for the faint of heart. There’s cussing, there’s nudity, there’s talk about what leads to the nudity…it’s pretty graphic. So keep that in mind. I personally am not offended with this stuff, but some people are.
Season 2 starts airing Summer 2008. Gives you plenty of time to check it out.