I love Californication
After three episodes of “Californication” I guess it’s time for a few words from my side. A good introduction on the show can be found here. Since I never watched the X-Files the last memory I had regarding Duchovny on television was his one episode appearance on Sex and the City as Jeremy - Carrie’s high school sweetheart and I sort of didn’t like him there because I wanted her to get back together with Big and I was still annoyed from the “Berger” debacle. I thought he was somewhat boring. Then I turned the TV on to Showtime and was hooked after about 2 minutes. I must admit that at least up till now there’s a serious Sex and the City vibe surrounding the show but not in a negative way and I don’t feel like they are copying the show. The dialogues are so hilarious and refreshing and its nice to see Madeline Zima from the Nanny again and also Evan Handler better known as Charlotte’s Harry from SATC. I was just rewatching the third episode from Monday night and I absolutely love the scenes between Duchovny and Zima. I laughed out loud several times - even the second time I watched this episode.
Gillian Flynn on www.ew.com summarizes what Californication is all about when she writes:
“Join David Duchovny for an odyssey of self-loathing, despair, bitterness, and projectile vomit in Showtime’s ”new comedy” (huh, comedy?) Californication. Here, Los Angeles is a grotesque nihilopolis and Duchovny’s writer Hank Moody is its pissy chronicler, indulging in cocktails and revenge sex and anonymous sex and angry sex and massive doses of wallowy self-pity: After seeing his brainy best-seller turned into a mindless date movie, the guy can’t get it up, literarily speaking. He’s losing his longtime partner (Solaris’ Natascha McElhone) and precocious 12-year-old daughter (The Pillowman’s Madeleine Martin) to a safe, boring rich guy — whose teenage daughter he slept with, unknowingly….
….Hank’s a man in crisis, and the crisis is distinctly Duchovnyesque: sarcastic, understated, and buzzing with sly humor. This character, in fact, probably wouldn’t work without Duchovny, so oft-infantile Hank is. As with his X-Files persona, the actor brings just enough playfulness, and a goodly amount of sorrow, to make Hank palatable. And bless McElhone’s Karen, because if a woman that sensible and earthy still sort of loves the guy, it’s a pretty solid voucher. She banters with Hank, brushes him off, rails against him — and it’s in those scenes that Hank becomes a real person, engaged in a genuine dissolution of love”
I hope people turn on their TVs and keep watching this show because provided that it keeps this course Californication will be a potential success. I will put it on my weekly regular show schedule and I will make everyone I know watch it as well. The only bad thing about it is its episode length of maximum 30 minutes. They went by so fast that I initially thought I had missed a part.
I just ran across this short article. It’s about a writer’s love for Tina Fey. I love her too (Just wanted to mention my love for her again at this point) and I think she is one of the funniest TV actresses on American television. I can’t wait for Season 2 of 30 Rock- (And of course we will wish her lots of luck for the Emmys).
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