Californication - Season One
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Actor: Californication, David DuchovnyBrand: CALIFORNICATION
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 340 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD Reviews of Californication - Season One
DVD Review: very cool
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say? I love this series. Can't see how a regular guy can't be enthralled by the Hank character. He is like a hip version of a Bukowski or Tom Waits, only cooler and less of a space alien. I guess Duchovny captures what we are all looking for... wit, spontaneity, integrity, character, toughness, trueness and - where it counts, gentleness & caring.
it just so happens that this is what womyn love and are attracted to
and, by Jove, are there women in the show. Only attractive women, come to think of it, which makes this a LA version of a telenovela. Yet this is a good telenovela. I like the intelligence of the scriptwriting, the music (!!!) and the underlying subtext which champions integrity and realness; makes me identify with Hank and root for him. Maybe what this film is saying is that one can live a healthy emotional/sexual life even when the social aspects of one's life seem dysfunctional.
DVD Review: Too cool for school
Summary: 3 Stars
Unlike most of the other reviewers, I'm still on the fence with this show even after watching all three seasons. There are so many things to hate about the hopelessly vain, narcissistically hollow Frank Moody, and too often this show feels about as real as an Axe Body lotion commercial. David Duchovny's acting can be an annoying study in how to always appear cool - as also seem to be his TV appearances - as if he is perpetually stuck in the rock star mode of an eighteen year old living in his own MTV video. The show has a strong male dominated view of women, whereby the women characters exist as either objects of angelic devotion ([...]), or as strippers, rock star groupies, porn stars, promiscuous teenagers and the like ([...]) all ready at the sight of Hank to jump into bed with him. Moreover, the plot - a brilliant writer with writer's block who is drowning in self-loathing - seems trite and tired. And how does he afford the lavish life he lives considerig he is an obscure writer who hasn't published in ten years? Why is it TV characters always have an unlimited supply of income?
But yet...
There is simply nothing like it on TV. Hank Moody reminds me of the heroes of Thomas McGuane novels. He is a man with no moral center, who embraces debauchery more from boredom than anything else and views "coolness" as the only human attribute worth striving for. In the singular focus by which he pursues this, he is successful. And you can believe that insofar as show creator Tom Kapinos is trying to convince you that Hank was once a hugely successful underground writer of all things hip and cool, the character of Hank Moody is not unlike an aging Mick Jagger who has become the image he has singularly projected for so many years for no other reason than his entire sense of self depends on it. Unfortunately for Hank (and not Mick Jagger), he is ambivalent about this image and his desire to continue performing in that role. But unfortunately life, and the hordes of women who throw themselves at him, has conspired not to allow him to escape. All of this would fall flat if the cast wasn't as committed to the characters and the vision as Tom Kapinos is. (By the way, not one mention of Kapinos on the ShowTime web site - which goes to show how little respect show writers and creators get in Hollywood.) Fortunately they are.
DVD Review: The XXX Files :)
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw the first episode of "Californication" as a bonus feature for "The Tudors" season 1. I loved it. It took awhile to get around to purchasing it, but it really is one of the best shows I've seen. At first, I wondered if it was going to be an endless parade of one-night stands for Hank Moody (played brilliantly by David Duchovny) but the show turned out to be so much more. Yes, there's a good amount of sex, but also explores the complex relationships of the people in Hank's life, including his ex and his daughter. Watch as Duchovny gets naked, high, throws up on an over-priced piece of "art," gets drunk, steals a dog, punches a guy's lights out for insulting his ex, and delivers some of the best written dialogue around. The show is a delight to watch and though much of Hank Moody's behavior is ridiculous, by the end of the series, he's really a rather sympathetic character. As a friend of ours put it, "He (Duchovny) does loveable sleazeball really well." I highly recommend this series.DVD Review: A lot of dirty talk and sex scenes but it's not funny.
Summary: 1 Stars
It has a lot of dirty talk and sex scenes but it's not funny. It's like a cheap soft porn. The dialogues are over the top.DVD Review: True To Life
Summary: 5 Stars
Reality shows you like? Than dump everything you've seen before, because this show really focus on true life experiences some of us find in the bigger communities. Marriage, divorce, sex and sex at work, split parents with one child trying to reconcile things, drugs, drugs with the kids, drugs with the parents, boy/girl friends of the other parent and so on....
This show covers it all in some way and dosent come across as a staged perfourmance. Its like a camera man following you around filming everything you do; eating, dating, going to the bathroom, sex, drugs, grocery shopping, sleeping.....
Best reality show I've seen yet.
Season 2 is just as good!
Description of Californication - Season One
Sophisticated and unique, this comedy centers on novelist Hank Moody (David Duchovny) who struggles to raise his 13-year-old daughter, while still carrying a torch for his ex-girlfriend. His obsession with truth-telling and self destructive behavior -- drinks drugs and relationships -- are both destroying and enriching to his career."You can't always get what you want." The Rolling Stones may have said it best, and it seems to be writer Hank Moody's theme song. David Duchovny (X Files) was born to play this sly, sarcastic, self-loathing, and--despite all the meaningless sex, booze, and fist fights--kind character. Writer Moody hates the Los Angeles world he lives in; a world that turned his sharp best-seller into a cheesy date movie, where his young daughter and should-have-been wife (Natascha McElhone) are slipping away into the hands of a rich play-it-safe guy, and where everything he truly wants seems just out of his reach. But the man hasn't lost all hope. "Happy endings may get a bad rap, but they do happen," he assures his daughter. "And when they do, they're just as true as the unhappy ones." One can't help but hope Hank finds his happy ending, because it's with his family that his soft side surfaces. Hank takes no shame in trying to woo back his "wife" Karen, even if it is in front of her new fianc?. He knows he's meant to be with her--plain and simple--and there's a glint in her eye that always makes you wonder if she's really thinking the same thing. And his daughter Becca? Well, any guy would melt against this guitar-wielding cutie (played by the adorable Madeleine Martin), but Hank really captures the "I'll kick a lot of ass for my daughter" mentality that so many dads harbor. He's also fully prepared to drop a gorgeous woman at a moment's notice to heed his daughter's call.
The rest of the cast, including Evan Handler (Sex and the City) and Pamela Adlon (Lucky Louie), provide some surprisingly interesting and hilarious side stories. Just when it seems situations in this show can't get any more ludicrous or disgusting, they most certainly do. That's the beauty of it. Californication is a dark, coarse, edgy adult comedy. It's also very real, and quite intelligent. --Jordan Thompson
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