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Posted Nov 23rd 2009 4:01PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E09) "I had a plan, I did, but it just didn't work out the way I thought it would."/"What? You thought he'd (Hank) do a good job of being in charge?" - Karen to Becca
Remember watching
Friends and feeling that great sense of heavy letdown when you realized that week's diversion of reality would be a "Joey-heavy episode"?
That describes this week's
Californication to a tee, except the great sense of heavy letdown doesn't quite sit on top of your soul with the girth and grim sadism of an evil sumo wrestler.
Continue reading Review: Californication - Mr. Bad Example
Posted Oct 26th 2009 9:29AM by Danny Gallagher
(S03E05) -
"Once upon a time's gotta count for something." - Zloz to Hank
Ah, the old friend from back home trick. It's been done so many times before in television. Remember when Rob's old Army buddy came to town in that one episode of
The Dick Van Dyke Show or that one time when Don Rickles met up with his old pal Maxwell Smart on
Get Smart? Those were some good times.
Imagine those episodes with a lot of hookers and copious amounts of beer, whiskey and vodka. Now they are twice as better, even if the hangover isn't as warm and friendly.
Zloz's one episode appearance felt like the makings of another "Guys Gone Wild" episode where the boys do some drinking, make with the smoking and then get into some fighting, but it turned into something much deeper and helped you appreciate the characters more for what they are. The ride was fun, even if you didn't really want to get back in line for it.
Continue reading Review: Californication - Slow Happy Boys
Posted Oct 20th 2009 3:18AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E04) - "You once spent an entire class ranting about how much you hate Coldplay. Something tells me you could care less about what's frowned upon." - Jackie to Hank
Hank is normally the kind of guy most average heterosexual males would form mobs against, complete with rows of flaming torches and pitchforks (used both as weapons and Freudian references to using one's phallus as a weapon).
Still, he's become the most likable monkey in the
Californication barrel. And it's not because he's living a life that would make most Arabian princes jealous. It's because there is a method to his manliness tendencies. He's vulnerable and sees those vulnerabilities in people around him, especially those of the opposite sex with genes that get saved in the secret cabinet in most high priced fertility clinics.
Continue reading Review: Californication - Zoso
Posted Oct 12th 2009 9:02AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Video, Spoilers Anonymous, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Almost a year ago, it was announced that
there would be a movie sequel for the hit TV series
Sex and the City. It took years for producers and actresses to agree to a first movie, but a few months to decide a sequel was needed. Then again, with the popularity of the
Sex and the City movie, it was inevitable that a sequel would follow.
Production is underway for the movie, set to be released at the end of May 2010, which means spoilers are leaking on the web! As expected, all four main ladies are back. But what is in store for them? Who, besides the ladies, will star in the movie?
Spoilers coming up!Continue reading Sex and the City 2: movie spoilers
Posted Oct 12th 2009 4:20AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E03) - "Don't put Daddy in a corner." - Hank to his daughter, Becca
Something spectacular happened on last Sunday's episode of
Californication, something I've been hoping and waiting to see from a big-budget television show ever since I was old enough to realize what life was worth living for, what makes television worth watching.
Jackie showed us her boobies!
That being said, there was much more to the most recent saga of Hank Moody and company worth mentioning, and Lord knows I could spend a whole review on Eva Amurri's "revealing" opening scene of Hank imaging his star pupil at her night job. Hell, if Joel would let me do a list of TV's best racks, I'd put Jackie's on the number one and two spots, left and right respectively. I have my reasons.
Continue reading Californication: Verities & Balderdash
Posted Oct 5th 2009 2:01AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E02) - "All work and no ass play makes Chuck a dull boy." Sue Collini to Charlie Runkle
A show like
Californication might seem like just another rude, crass and completely tasteless sitcom that gets away with speaking Kinsey from cover to cover because it's on pay cable.
But if you actually sit down and watch the damn thing, you'll realize it's actually much deeper and more emotional than that, or at least as deep as a group of flesh lusting horndogs can go ... and I do mean "emotionally" deep, sickos.
Continue reading Californication: The Land of Rape and Honey
Posted Sep 28th 2009 1:04AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S0301) - What's with all the parent plotlines on Showtime? First
Dexter Morgan becomes a new father, and now Hank Moody on
Californication? Granted, it's the perfect penance for a man who has flaunted the consequences of the reproductive act more than the entire British royal family, but it seems eerily similar and way overdone in the world of television.
It does, however, work as an obstacle and a vehicle for conflict for Hank, whose only daughter Becca moves into that awkward living hell on Earth known as "teenagerhood." The opening scene of Hank catching Becca and her new best friend Chelsea stoned out of their gourds pretty much set the tone for some, if not most, of Hank's problems.
How can he tell her to do as he says while still doing what and who he loves most?
Continue reading Californication: Wish You Were Here (season premiere)
Posted Sep 27th 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Early Looks, Reality-Free
If you think of all the places that would turn
Californication's Hank Moody into a kid in a candy store, "college campus" should be at the top of your
Family Feud survey.
What would be at the bottom? Probably the Vatican. Then again, an unrepentant sexaholic like Moody always loves a challenge.
The third season follows Moody as he navigates his way through the student body of a local college as an English professor, his relationship with his growing teenage daughter Becca and the rest of his other relationships -- or at least the ones that alcohol hasn't erased from his memory.
Continue reading Californication, season three -- An early look
Posted Aug 11th 2007 6:40PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Early Looks
Five years after the end of
The X-Files, David Duchovny is back on the small screen! Okay, he did guest star here and there since then but coming this Monday, he is back as a regular on a series.
Duchovny will play Hank Moody, a self-destructive writer, in Showtime's
Californication. TV fans who are used to seeing Duchovny portray
The X-Files' Fox Mulder and haven't seen much of his other projects will be placed outside of their comfort zone when watching him play Hank Moody, especially if they tune in
Californication without knowing what it's about.
Continue reading Californication -- An early look
Posted Apr 6th 2007 7:41AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: OpEd, Shark, Episode Reviews
(S01E18) All in all, I enjoyed t
his hostage-crisis episode better than the
previous hostage-crisis episode,
"The Wrath of Khan", the one in which attorney Alexis Cruz got axed.
Evan Handler gives an enjoyable performance as the poor loser who claims he's innocent and is looking at his third strike. Handler played Hurley's probably imaginary friend Dave, the
title character in a
Lost episode last season and, more recently, one of the two hacky comedy writers on
Studio 60, that Matthew Perry's character liked to bust on.
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