Television learned long ago that people eat up the lives of the rich and the famous. Documentaries, Behind-the-scenes, and programs like ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ and ‘Entourage’ exploit our thirst to know that there is something better, and that something better isn’t always so great. Californication turns those desires upside-down, exploring the train wreck that is the fictional life of not-so-rich and infamous writer Hank Moody.
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Season Four begins with Hank, played by the ‘too perfect for the part,’ ex-X-filer David Duchovny, being released from jail - an unfortunate consequence of a life lived a little too freely. As his newest work is finally taken at face value, Hank is being accepted back into the society he continues to scorn. No amount of glitz and glamour will stop him from remaining the well-read, charming screw up he always was.
When Moody’s cracks show, the audience follows. With some of the greatest writers outside of network television, series creator Tom Kapinos delivers a wordsmith whose bittersweet prose paints the picture of a man who would do anything for his family, and who just can’t help but screw everything up every. single. time.
Hank Moody’s beautiful sorted disaster is the most eloquent story on television.
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