Californication on Showtime

Plot Keywords:
Female Nudity / Sex

I like the sounds of this "plot" thing

Yes, it starts with him getting a blowjob from a nun, kinda.

haha "near the vaganus!?"

this show is... ok. getting tired of all these 6 feet under style edgy soap operas.

is this the one where boone from lost cs on ts?

No that's an HBO show coming (heh) in a few weeks, I think? I can't find the thread but it's called Tell Me You Love Me.

I never watched Six Feet Under regularly, so I guess I'm not jaded enough yet.

This was terrible, cliched, awful -- it's basically "Dream On" minus the funny, no? Big respect to the Duchov, but he's dreadful in this.

All these shows are blurring together.

mad men pretty disappointing too i thought.

really lazily written (cell phone scene and when he tears apart the nice girl - they could have changed the cliches a little, right?), but reasonably funny when it's completely evil. I imagine Mulder-maturing/family stuff is going to suck mightily.

first series just finished airing in the UK; quite surprised (but then nothing about how out of step i am with ILX these days really surprises me any more, heh) there's no more comment about it here.

whatever. daft, sometimes joyously so. but fuck me, if anything EVER needed to be just one series, this was it.

This is my favourite new programme. Better than Heroes.

Season 1 was way better than the new season so far.

I had assumed I felt the same way because I watched season 1 in a weekend on a lark, and didn't have to wait a week inbetween episodes. However last night's was much better than the rest of the season, so maybe you're right.

mad men pretty disappointing too i thought.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:43 PM (1 year ago)

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Watched the first half of season 1 this weekend. Liking it. Duchovny pulls off super-louche well.

Derivative of Sideways, Entourage, etc., but, hey, I've seen those already.

this is a good show and i'm pleased there will be a third season soon.

is this the programme about David Duchovny playing a sex addict? I find the idea of him having sex with anyone repuslive and incredible.

On account of his enormous head?

cld never watch this because of the RHCP connec

third season pretty good so far.

Dean Koons!!

Kathleen Turner playing a part that was made for her.

Susan Sarandon's daughter is in it too(ws) playing a student and part time stripper.

is this show as bad as this clip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQU2WW40G1Y

most of the way thru the 1st season; does this turn to shit like 6' under i.e. dark and unwatchable? I have a feeling it will do this.

kick

turns sorta sappy actually, before swinging back to comic-book trashy, then back again. occasionally but rarely really good and actually hits the literary thing it shoots for.

first season of this i really liked, thought it was pretty cute even, but the second was oddly enough horrible

thankin u. i looked @ the wiki breakdowns b cuz we got to the episode where mia steals the manuscript & hank gets carjacked and my mind is screaming "unwatchable" in a cartoon voice

lol when is the episode where the world is mourning the loss of kurt cobain

oh christ i remember that one, duchovny had a goatee

Never watched seasons 2 & 3 and watched 2 of season 4 and man is it tone-deaf. Zoller Seitz OTM in this: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/2011/01/10/californication_season_4/index.html

since tv shows decline pretty regularly, 'i checked in on the new season and i don't think i want to watch the ones i missed' seems a little funny. i thought 2 and 3 were watchable. calum rennie's rock producer in 2 is pretty good, and 3 has diane farr, embeth davidtz, and eva amurri (!).

so far in 4 they seem a little unsure why any of these people (except charlie) would want to be around hank anymore. a lot of the plot-related shenanigans are no longer tightly tied to the past, either, since apart from the legal troubles in 4 there's no longer anything about the whole 'fucking and punching' situation to hide (and so no tension about it). and charlie and marcie's life seems pretty well messed up too.

they've also gone through three or four major changes in hank's family so it's probably hard to re-set that convincingly—they can't just shuffle things between hank and karen around or send her to new york or anything.

oh, i forgot about janie jones.

Most recent episode really had me rolling with laughter

this show is my guilty pleasure. though i much prefer the runkles & their travails to hank's douchey antics.

Thought this was the worst season by far (your lovable douchebag is now a convicted sex offender?), but the dinner table scene of the finale was pretty hilarious.

And I assume the 'dad go home'/final shot is meant to foreshadow him moving back to Manhattan - guess his probation officer won't care?

i lost my access after the first four episodes this season, i want to know what happens : /

also to stare at carla gugino some more.

the few times i've tried watching this i couldn't even enjoy it on a dumb fun/eye candy tip, made me feel more horrible than even, like, a later season of Entourage. just the worst.

The season finale really seems like it was set up to be a possible series finale. Have they said whether this is renewed?

Well, they officially should have killed this when I made that last post, but you know, what's two more seasons between friends?

I know they are doing little homagey bits, but the fact they taped an episode in the same place they taped an early episode while pretending it's not is pretty cheap

I guess I missed the last half of last season - started the first episode of this season and it's too awful to look at.

This was always a pretty dumb, offensive show but it's been taken to a whole new low.

The daughter's voice has matured beyond nails on a chalkboard, at least.

"So, not only are you a cadaverous lay, you have shitty taste in movies."

That quote from the first post summarizes this thread pretty well. Meaning, what kind of jaded, humorless sad sacks would bother to post on a discussion about this show just to express offense and moral outrage? Did you not read the warning label? This is not prime-time family entertainment, it's comedy for grown-ups. Yes, Hank can be douchey and constantly sabotages his life and makes bad decisions that most normal people would not make. But why would anyone who couldn't appreciate the wit of the writing and find his character strangely sympathetic in the first couple seasons bother watching now or post about it?

The quality of storylines ebb and flow, but overall I still love all the seasons. Some amazing cameos, like the horrendously and hilariously lascivious Kathleen Turner in S03, the iconic scenes with Rick Springfield and Marcy in S04, the jaw-droppingly unhinged performances from Rob Lowe as the batshit Eddie Nero. Season 6 is another homage to the juxtaposition of mythical 70s rock 'n' roll excess and old Hollywood, something that I doubt exists anymore (a private Airforce 69 jet decked out with a grand piano, waterbed and bar stocked with pizza, cocaine and apple juice), but it's sure as hell entertaining to watch. Alanna Ubach appears as the wife of a dead rockstar, complete with an over the top Cockney accent. Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols appears as Krull, the cranky bodyguard for Atticus, the looney British rock star played by Tim Minchin ("Masturbation is for the poor, the downtrodden, the silent unfuckables"). I can't think of any particular musician he's supposed to resemble other than maybe Ian Hunter merged with Russell Brand, but it's very, very funny.

Oh, and how could I forget RZA as Samurai Apocalypse in S05? Brilliant. Meagan Good was lovely that season too.

My best friend summarized it as Sex and the City for men, cuz men need their soaps too, lol.

it's comedy for grown-ups

I think you mean adults with an interest in juvenile tastes

I say this as someone who has seen all Californication episodes and still cringe at the casual misogyny, homophobia, and general fratty atmosphere

I thought Sex and the City for men was Entourage, which I watched approximately half of one episode of, as it was completely grating.