September 3rd 2007
Californication
To be honest I was really disappointed by the Showtime’s new series Californicatrion. Aside from crisp writing without all that omnipresent PC bullshit and Natascha In the end the show portrays above average screw-up in his daily routine struggling to get his old life back, while teaching us about life in general. OK, I can’t say there’s noting good about this show. Nudity scenes, in my humble opinion, make every TV show better, but like everything in this show nudity here isn’t for attracting audience or showing breast just for naked breasts sake; here producers use nudity as a social commentary to portray women’s low self-esteem in today’s beauty obsessed society. No really, this series about drunken sex addict, through main character’s verbal diarrhea, comments on the society today and all the debauchery we are faced with in our daily lives. Now how dares he. That’s my job!
McElhone’s and Madeline Zimas’s (Gracie from Nanny) great performances, the show is under par in all aspects. The show follows Hank Moody, established author recently separated from his girlfriend and daughter. His journey through midlife crisis takes him from sexual escapades and whiskey bottles to statutory rape and fistfights during book signings; and he does all that while raising teenage daughter and trying to get his ex-girlfriend to come back to him. O yes, when he catches a free moment of two, from all that fornicating and substance abuse, he writes a blog post or two. He’s just multitalented like that. David Duchovny’s character (Hank Moody) is actually a slight modification of Dr. Eugene Sands, a character he played in 1997 movie Playing God. 