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Californication is a Showtime TV series production created by Tom Kapinos, starring David Duchovny as Hank Moody, a troubled novelist whose move to California and his writer's block complicate the relationships with his ex-girlfriend Karen (Natascha McElhone) and daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin).

Series overview
Main article: List of Californication episodes
The series revolves around Hank Moody, a charming writer and novelist plagued with personal demons. He blames his years-long case of writer's block on a variety of reasons, ranging from the hedonism of Los Angeles, to his on-again, off-again relationship with his girlfriend Karen. Hank constantly deals with the fallout of his lack of will to say "no" to drugs, sex and alcohol, while trying to show his family that he can be a good, caring person.

The show was renewed for a second season on September 7, 2007.[1] The season 1 finale, titled "The Last Waltz", originally aired on Showtime on October 29, 2007. Season 2 began filming in April 2008,[2] and was underway as of June 2008.[3] The premiere episode of season 2 aired September 28, 2008. The first season was released on DVD in the US on June 17, 2008. Showtime has decided to renew Californication for a third season, scheduled to premiere in late 2009.[4]


[edit] First season
The first season takes place in the months leading up to Karen's planned marriage to Bill, a Los Angeles publisher. Hank is wallowing deep in self-loathing following the release of A Crazy Little Thing Called Love, what he percieves as a sub-par yet popular movie adaptation to his most recent novel, God Hates Us All. After picking up a younger woman in a bookstore, he finds out she is actually Bill's 16-year-old daughter, Mia. Hank spends most of his time boozing and not writing. Mia continues to haunt Hank during his visits to his family, using the threat of statutory rape to steal stories for her creative writing class. The death of his father triggers a bender and an eventual sexual encounter with Karen. After the funeral, Hank stays in New York to finish a manuscript for a new novella. However, when Hank returns to LA, the original copy is lost when his car is stolen. But Mia has retained her own copy, and chooses to pass the work off as her own. On Karen and Bill's wedding day, Hank chooses to accept the way things are. But as he leaves the reception with his daughter Becca, Karen runs out and jumps into the car, riding into a new life together.


[edit] Second season
The newly reunited couple of Hank and Karen is seeming to work out, their house is on the market and Becca seems happy again. Hank gets a vasectomy and attends a party invited by Sonja, a woman Hank had sex with in the first season. A mistake and a fight with an obnoxious police officer lands Hank in jail, where he meets Lew Ashby, world-famous record producer. He commissions Hank to write his biography.

Charlie loses his job due to masturbating in his office several different times, and becomes the paternal figure and agent of a porn star named Daisy. Charlie decides to get into the porn industry and finances the porn movie "Vaginatown", starring Daisy. Marcy goes into rehab for her cocaine addiction and Charlie starts an affair with Daisy. Hank proposes to Karen on the night that they discover that Hank could be the father of Sonja's child. Karen says no after hearing the news about Sonja's baby, and Hank decides that they can no longer be together.

Hank moves in with Ashby, who starts a romance with Mia (much to Hank's dismay). Becca finds a boyfriend named Damien. Mia's book becomes a hit and Ashby holds a party in its honor, where Damien cheats on Becca and Charlie decides to divorce Marcy to get together with Daisy. After the party Hank sees that Ashby's old girlfriend (The one that got away) has finally showed up to see Lew and when Hank goes upstairs to get him, Ashby dies of an overdose of heroin which he had mistaken for cocaine.

Hank finishes Ashby's biography. Charlie ends up working in a BMW dealership in the Valley. Sonja's baby is born and turns out to be black, making it clear that Hank cannot be the father. Hank and Karen are slowly starting to get together again. Karen then gets offered a job in New York and Hank is happy to go back to New York with her, but when Damien apologises to Becca and the two get back together again, Hank decides it would be wrong to take Becca out of Los Angeles. He decides to stay, while Karen starts her job in New York. The season closes with Karen's plane leaving for New York and Hank and Becca walking on the Venice boardwalk.


[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters
Hank Moody (David Duchovny) 
Karen van der Beek (Natascha McElhone) - Hank's long-term on and off girlfriend. 
Rebecca "Becca" Moody (Madeleine Martin) - Hank and Karen's 12 year old daughter 
Charlie Runkle (Evan Handler) - Hank's agent 
Marcy Runkle (Pamela Adlon) - Charlie's wife 
Mia Cross (Madeline Zima) - Bill Cross' 16 year old daughter 

[edit] Recurring characters
Bill Cross (Damian Young) - Karen's fiancee. (Season 1) 
Sonja (Paula Marshall) - Karen's friend and Hank's one night stand 
Dani (Rachel Miner) - Charlie's former assistant (Twelve total episodes, only appears in the first and last episodes of Season 2) 
Lew Ashby (Callum Keith Rennie) - Hank's record producer friend 
Daisy (Carla Gallo) - Charlie's porn star client 
Michelle (Surfer Girl) (Michelle Lombardo) - Hank's friend 
Trixie (Judy Greer) - prostitute 
Ronny Praeger (Hal Ozsan) - Porn director and Charlie's business partner in the 'Vaginatown' movie (Four episodes of Season 2) 
Julian (Angus MacFadyen) - Hank's Season 2 nemesis, Sonja's spiritual guru and love-interest (Six episodes of Season 2) 
Damien (Ezra Miller) - Becca's boyfriend and the son of Mrs. Patterson, her English teacher (Five episodes) 

[edit] Critical reaction
Main article: List of Californication awards and nominations
The critical reaction for Californication has been generally favorable, with a rating of 70 on Metacritic.[5] However there has been a backlash from conservative groups who oppose the explicit nature of the program. Conservative columnist Andrew Bolt criticized the program in the Australian newspaper the Herald Sun, in regards to the pilot's opening dream scene in which a nun performs oral sex on Hank Moody.[6] The Australian Christian Lobby’s managing director Jim Wallace also called for a boycott, not only of Network Ten, but all advertisers who advertise during the show, in response to a scene in which Hank and Sonja smoke marijuana, have sex and subsequently both vomit.[7] When Network Ten premiered Season 2 on October 5 2008, the Christian fundamentalist group Salt Shakers led an e-mail campaign against advertisers, requesting they withdraw their advertisements. This resulted in 49 companies withdrawing their advertising, including the show's main sponsor, Just Car Insurance.

Breaking with the majority, American Critic Nathan Rabin gave the first season an "F" rating on The AV Club, calling it "insufferable" [6].

The show premiered on Thursday, November 8, 2007 in New Zealand amidst controversy due to issues raised by the conservative lobby group Family First, who objected to the content of the show. The group called for families to boycott any company advertising during the episode which it described as "drug, sex and vomit-laden."[8][9][10]

The show and lead actor David Duchovny were both nominated for Golden Globes in 2007; Duchovny won the lead actor award, but the award for best TV series in this category went to Extras.[11]

The following is an episode list for the comedy-drama Californication. The television series debuted on Showtime on August 13, 2007 in the United States. The first season, which ended on October 29, 2007, is available on DVD. The second season of Californication premiered on September 28, 2008. As of December 14, 2008, 24 episodes have aired.

Contents [hide]
1 Season 1: 2007 
2 Season 2: 2008 
3 References 
4 External links 
 


[edit] Season 1: 2007
Episode # Title Writer(s) Director Original air date[1] 
1 (1-01) "Pilot" Tom Kapinos Stephen Hopkins August 13, 2007 (2007-08-13) 
We meet 40ish year old Hank Moody (David Duchovny) in a church asking Jesus to help him get his life back on track. He is then distracted by a hot nun, which turns out to be a dream that is representative of his lifestyle. Sex-addicted Hank sleeps with many women including a woman who is cheating on her enraged and muscular husband and Mia (Madeline Zima), a 16-year-old girl (Hank assumes she is older). Moody also has to interact with ex-girlfriend Karen (Natascha McElhone) who might still love him. With her, they share the custody of their 12-year-old daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin) who is wise beyond her years but is starting to have a sex life, which freaks out both of her parents.  
2 (1-02) "Hell-A Woman" Tom Kapinos Scott Winant August 20, 2007 (2007-08-20) 
Becca invites Hank to her Mom and Bill's (Damian Young) house for a dinner party with some mutual friends. After he arrives, however, he realizes that Karen has planned a little setup for Hank with her scientologist friend Sonja (Paula Marshall), which doesn't thrill Hank all that much. But, Hank gets a nice laugh out of it after the rest of the party people walk in on him and Sonja in the bedroom. Hank also gets a little news about the job he recently accepted.  
3 (1-03) "The Whore of Babylon" Tom Kapinos Scott Winant August 27, 2007 (2007-08-27) 
Hank and Todd Carr (Chris Williams), the director of "A Crazy Little Thing Called Love", the movie adaptation of Hank's book, start a fight, after which Hank ends up in jail. Bill bails him out and Hank finds a new connection to Meredith (Amy Price-Francis). Charlie (Evan Handler) learns about a different side of his assistant Dani (Rachel Miner).  
4 (1-04) "Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser" Daisy Gardner Michael Lembeck September 3, 2007 (2007-09-03) 
Meredith convinces Hank to escort her to an environmental fundraiser. Coincidentally Bill and Karen are at the same event, where Karen makes a scene, and Hank runs into Dani and Charlie while they are in his office.  
5 (1-05) "LOL" Susan McMartin Bart Freundlich September 10, 2007 (2007-09-10) 
Bill asks Hank to step in as a guest speaker at Mia's creative writing class. Hank talks about his writing and motivations on a radio interview. Becca develops a crush on her guitar teacher Dave (Joaquin Pastor), but he ends up with Mia.  
6 (1-06) "Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" Tom Kapinos & Eric Weinberg Ken Whittingham September 17, 2007 (2007-09-17) 
Hank spends the night with a sexy surfer girl (Michelle Lombardo) and in return she robs him. Mia wants more of Hank's writing to pass her class, instead he offers to help her with her writing. Charlie wants to spice up the sex life with his wife Marcy (Pamela Adlon), but she is not as fond of spanking as Dani is.  
7 (1-07) "Girls, Interrupted" Gina Fattore Tucker Gates September 24, 2007 (2007-09-24) 
Hank is disturbed by Becca's negative reaction towards the concept of happy endings, even more so when he finds out that it is partially his fault. Marcy comes up with the idea of a threesome with Charlie and Dani, but it ends unexpectedly.  
8 (1-08) "California Son" Tom Kapinos Scott Winant October 1, 2007 (2007-10-01) 
Hank's father Al (Mark Margolis) dies, so Hank tries to ease his pain with a hooker named Trixie (Judy Greer). However, Karen does her best to help him overcome the pain.  
9 (1-09) "Filthy Lucre" Ildy Modrovich Scott Burns October 8, 2007 (2007-10-08) 
After the funeral of Hank's father Al, Hank comes back to L.A. with a new manuscript, that he wants Karen to read. After receiving a bonus paycheck, he buys a new car for himself and a new guitar for Becca.  
10 (1-10) "The Devil's Threesome" Tom Kapinos John Dahl October 15, 2007 (2007-10-15) 
A new threesome including Hank and Charlie evolves from a meeting at the gym, while Karen and Marcy have a girls' night out at which they decide to surprise Hank and Charlie.  
11 (1-11) "Turn The Page" Gina Fattore & Eric Weinberg David Von Ancken October 22, 2007 (2007-10-22) 
Charlie and Dani represent Mia after she wrote a book that seems to have come out of Hank's feather. Becca decides to move out of Bill and Karen's home to live with her dad Hank.  
12 (1-12) "The Last Waltz" Tom Kapinos Scott Winant October 29, 2007 (2007-10-29) 
In the season finale Hank has to deal with Karen's wedding and Becca's first period.  


[edit] Season 2: 2008
Episode # Title Writer(s) Director Original air date[2][3] 
13 (2-01) "Slip of the Tongue" Tom Kapinos David Duchovny September 28, 2008 (2008-09-28) 
Hank and Karen decide to move back to New York, so they try to sell their house in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Karen persuades Hank to get a vasectomy.  
14 (2-02) "The Great Ashby" Tom Kapinos David Von Ancken October 5, 2008 (2008-10-05) 
After Hank is arrested by the police and sent to jail, he meets record producer Lew Ashby (Callum Keith Rennie), who asks Hank to write his biography, and Charlie is fired after videos of him masturbating in the office are shown to his boss.  
15 (2-03) "No Way to Treat a Lady" Gina Fattore John Dahl October 12, 2008 (2008-10-12) 
A prostitute who is acquainted with Ashby and Hank claims that Hank is better in bed. Karen comes under the spell of a self-help guru. Charlie pitches himself as an agent, and wants to help Daisy with her porn career.  
16 (2-04) "The Raw & the Cooked" Tom Kapinos David Von Ancken October 19, 2008 (2008-10-19) 
A botched proposal, a paternity revelation and an allergic reaction to sushi derail Hank and Karen's dinner party.  
17 (2-05) "Vaginatown" Jay Dyer Ken Whittingham October 26, 2008 (2008-10-26) 
Hank moves into Lew's mansion, and he sleeps with a cooking show host. Charlie becomes a major investor in his newest client's upcoming adult film.  
18 (2-06) "Coke Dick & First Kick" Gina Fattore & Gabriel Roth Michael Lehmann November 2, 2008 (2008-11-02) 
Hank wants to locate Lew's long-lost first love. Sonja and Julian decide to have an open relationship. Mia spends the day being followed by a Rolling Stone reporter. Charlie's house becomes a set.  
19 (2-07) "In a Lonely Place" Tom Kapinos Jake Kasdan November 9, 2008 (2008-11-09) 
Hank becomes interested in Becca's teacher. Charlie discovers that Marcy has been hiding a secret.  
20 (2-08) "Going Down and Out in Beverly Hills" Daisy Gardner Danny Ducovny November 16, 2008 (2008-11-16) 
Hank tries to get the truth about Ashby, and Karen confronts the record producer. Marcy detoxes at her mother's house. Charlie succumbs to temptation.  
21 (2-09) "La Ronde" Gina Fattore Adam Bernstein November 23, 2008 (2008-11-23) 
Hank declines an offer. Karen goes on a date with Ashby. Charlie and Daisy bond. Marcy remains on the mend.  
22 (2-10) "In Utero" Tom Kapinos David Von Ancken November 30, 2008 (2008-11-30) 
Hank awaits test results and reflects on his early days with Karen. Daisy plans to move out.  
23 (2-11) "Blues from Laurel Canyon" Gina Fattore Michael Lehmann December 7, 2008 (2008-12-07) 
Ashby hosts a party to celebrate the publication of Mia's book; Becca is devastated to catch Damien cheating on her. Charlie destroys his marriage. Ashby collapses at a most inopportune time. Guest appearance by Mädchen Amick.  
24 (2-12) "La Petite Mort" Tom Kapinos Bart Freundlich December 14, 2008 (2008-12-14) 
Hank completes his biography of Ashby; Charlie is reduced to working at a car dealership; Sonja gives birth; Karen accepts a job offer back home in New York, forcing Hank and Becca to make painful choices.