Californication - Season One | David Duchovny, Californication

Californication - Season One | David Duchovny, Californication | CaliFORNICATION!!!

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	Californication - Season One David Duchovny, Californication Paramount, 2008 average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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CaliFORNICATION!!!

Good God!!! I wonder if David Duchovny has gotten registered on the AIMDB Database (Adult Internet Movie Database) Good Lord! I love this show! What would Agent Scully say?

Leave no doubt in your mind, there's lots and lots and lots of fornication in this show. But here's the kicker! The storyline is very fascinating and interesting. I love all the story arcs. I do notice that almost every storyline has something to do with fornication, or at least between a married couple. In any event here are my favorite characters and situations. Some spoilers below.

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Dani, the agent's assistant, played by Rachel Miner (NOT Elisha Cuthbert): What words to describe this delectable creature...yummy! You gotta love a series that can turn every situation into a "70's porn scenario." Dani plays a role in many of these situations. I love how she worms here way into the sexual lives of just about every major character. Gotta love her acting too. She's very beautiful and sexy and fun to watch get it on.

Loved the last show of season 1. Remember the ménage a twois with the bald agent, David and the strange female, and the little surprise at the end, when David says: "I knew there was a reason why I didn't call her back." The look on the bald agent's face, when his face is dripping, is worth the price of the DVD set. Actually more than the cost of the DVD set. Priceless!!!

There's been a lot of trash talk about the daughter, Becca Moody, played by Madeleine Martin on the IMDB boards, and let me tell you, I think that's a little bit over the top. I do think she has an unusual look and her singing leaves a lot to be desired, but she's a 14 or 15 year old singing classic rock songs. What do you want? Obviously, she's there to be the cute daughter. Her father obviously loves her.

I'm looking forward to the season 2 release of this show. I don't have Showtime and I don't make a habit of watching on my computer. Maybe I'll figure out a way to download and watch on my television. We'll see.

Two hard thumbs way up!!!

Great show!!!

MC White says check it out!!!

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EX-FILES!!! AAA-RATED SHOW!!!!

What do you do after you take on the whole paranoid universe? You get wasted and laid galore!!! And, you insist on some of the snappiest, most literate dialogue ever written, put it in the mouths of a great cast, give us some unforgettable comedic moments, and flash us world-class eye candy every episode---Voila!!! Welcome to Californication, starring David Duchovny as the scraggly-but-dashing writer Hank Moody, both incurable romantic and bawdy p-hound; the bitter, ever-hungover, ex-partriate New Yorker who's living out his next novel amidst the boudoirs of Lotusland--though he doesn't know it just quite yet.

Part Lancelot, part Hefner, part Faulkner---with a jigger of Kafka thrown in for the Existential after-burn, Duchovny's Hank has his Grail Quest set out for him--to win back the capricious Karen, his tatooed love goddess, who left his non-committal ass for the steady though dull arms of Bill, publisher of the redoubtable digital HELL-A magazine-- ironically, the only writing gig open to Hank as he scrapes bottom during his free-fall. Also holding his heart is his impish daughter, Becca, to whom he is a glorious, if bruised, hero. Holding his body and soul together is his agent and true friend, Charley, while Charlie's wife Marcie remains Karen's loyal confidante and bush-waxer throughout tribulations.

A Post-Modern Odysseus, Hank bounces from gorgeous bed to even-more gorgeous
bed -- including one that is highly (though truly unknowingly) taboo--before going through an archetypal, Groundhog Day-ish ritual cleansing & purification that gets him closer to fine--and just maybe--to his estranged Penelope-esque Ex, Karen, now bound in the labyrinthine canals of Venice/Ithaca. Having gone through the Underworld, Hank's writing again, and hits upon that which just might win his lady back for him from the pretentious suitor Bill...but Cyclops, Circes, Sirens, and Swine abound, and the Fates may not be having any of it...And so it goes on his mythic peregrination back to the wholeness of love, family, and home. Will he make it? You'll have to watch to find out-and you'll thank me for keeping the secret, Rosebud....

Hank is a guy you can't help but root for, even though you gotta admit he's blown his 9 lives about five times over. Duchovny does a great job of keeping Hank at that sleazy-but-adorable edge throughout the show's initial run, and that is the main ingredient in the show's steamy comedic chemistry. I found it irresistible and addictive viewing--smart, bawdy, real, (gulp) mature--this show continually won over my heart and my mind.

I will say that I did have some qualms about the finale and what motivated it, but I can't go into that specifically without spoiling it for the uninitiated. Was it the complete, authentic story arc, or, were we not sure if we were coming back for Round Two? In a show that made precious few boo-boos, and that avoided clichés like the plague, it stood out as an impulsive compromise of some sort. Nevertheless, I was still hankering for more Hank, so I am just wiggy about the new season. Bring it on, Broheem!!!

The only other real mistake, I thought, was that they did not stick with the formula for the opening from the first episode, i.e., by having the intro scene, and then cutting to the overhead of Hank driving the coast road, and blasting the Stones song as the theme. BRILLIANT!!! He's a dude at the edge of the world, having lost his Woman, but with the scent of Strange wafting off his 4-day stubble as he bemusedly zips along in his grimy Porsche...& Mick 'n Keef wailing away...see?. I thought the way that played in the opener was just superb, and I was looking for that in week 2--and what I got was the jerky post-mod splat of dissonant rock and oblique montage that passed for a theme song & intro--BUMMER!!! (Crazy Little Thing Called CRAP!!! The show's biggest villainy visited upon itself!!) I'm sure high school kids have done better on their senior projects for TV Production class. I still cringe every episode and wonder how they missed on that one.

Otherwise, though, this was an absolutely joyous, hilarious, sexy, wry, subtle/not-subtle masterpiece of a show from start to finish. I am going to get a DVD set just because I can't stand watching censored re-runs anymore--and on a cable station mind you!! For crying--out--f*&%$n loud!!!! Like Hank, I'm reaching for a Dewar's mini.....and Disc One.

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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.

Solid Stuff

Interesting soap operaish TV series, interesting characters who get under your skin the more you watch it. Actually should have given it four stars, but the damned edit won't let me change that.

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