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Summary: One you watch the first 3 minutes... you're hooked!
Comment: I can't believe anyone would give this show anything lower than 4 stars. DD has some of the best one liners ever written and his character is one of the most refreshing on TV. Women want him and men want to be him. Please watch this show!!!
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Summary: Californication Fabulousfornia
Comment: Shipping from Amazon was lightening fast. DVD's arrived in great shape. Fun to watch again. It's nice to be able to backtrack and see pieces of this great program at my own pace. It's also nice to be able to once again listen and even jot down "Hanks" cutting quips, just so I can use them if the need ever arises. This show is very quirky and fun. It's definately for adults only but that's what I like about it. The writing is great and the stories are fabulous. David Duchovny is perfect for this part; as I understand it he's living it in real life.
Smell ya later........
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Summary: Californication... A must see series
Comment: "Californication" is a new Showtime series that chronicles the life of struggling writer Hank Moody (David Duchovney) and his plight to get back together with his ex girlfriend Karen (Natascha McElhone), with which they have a daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin). If you think this sounds like another sap series that we seem to be overwhelmed with in this day in age, you are wrong. There is plenty of sex, drugs, alcohol and humor to dilute the underlying plot to attract viewers and keep you watching. It's not unreasonable to finish this entire series in one sitting.
Hank's problems begin when his best selling novel is turned into a mainstream Hollywood hit movie, which he feels ruined his work. Ever since he moved to L.A. from The Big Apple he comes down with a severe case of writers block. He takes a job as a blogger but hates the idea of blogging instead of creating a meaningful piece of literature. His hate for this blog is amplified once he finds out that his new boss is Bill (Damien Young), the man that Karen left him for. To make matters worse, Hank unknowingly has sex with Bill's 16-year-old daughter Mia (Madeline Zima), which ultimately becomes the inspiration for his newest novel, which is then used as blackmail against Hank after Mia steals the book and tries to get it published under her name. Throughout the series we see that Hank is still very much in love with Karen, even with his many interesting sexual escapades, and we get a sense that she stills loves Hank as well. This sets up for a very interesting look into Hank's many problems as he searches for love and self-discovery throughout the episodes.
"Californication" is one of the most hilarious shows on TV this year. There are many funny situations that lighten Hank's goal of reuniting his family. The humor ranges from awkward situations to hilarious three way sex scenes with entertaining climaxes. I believe I laughed so hard that I tore a muscle in my stomach. You will laugh, as well as sympathize with Hank's many problems, the whole way through this series... It's a guarantee. If I can get my mother to like this show, you will too.
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Summary: CaliFORNICATION!!!
Comment: 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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Summary: EX-FILES!!! AAA-RATED SHOW!!!!
Comment: What do you do after you take on the whole paranoid universe? You get wasted and laid galore!!! And 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 confidante and bush-waxer throughout her Bill episode.
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 to his estranged Penelope-esque Karen, 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 this mythic peregrination back to the wholeness of love, family, and home.
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 would have to say, though, I agree with another reviewer about what motivated the final scene--it seemed as if they wanted to tie up the biggest loose end just in case there was no season 2. I would have been perfectly happy if just Hank & Becca drove off with 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' playing over their exit, since Bittersweet was the theme of the whole show anyway--Doh!! Karen had made her choice for the moment, and we saw that, and that she seemed reasonably content with it. We really needed at least one more moment of wavering, and then some fresh epiphany on her part to even have this ending make sense. I think having her married to Bill for part or most of the 2nd season would have made for a great story arc, and one with lots of suspense over the break. 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.
The only other real mistake, I thought, was that they did not stick with the opening formula from the 1st episode, i.e., by having the intro snippet, 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 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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