Amazon.com: Californication: The Complete Series : Evan Handler, David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone, Pamela Adlon, Madeleine Martin, Madeline Zima, Stephen Tobolowsky: Movies & TV
Binge-watched the entire 7-season series, using Netflix, in less than a week! It only gets funnier from there!
Because I loved it so much, I bought the Complete Series of "Californication" from Amazon, and am now "binge-watching" all 7 seasons--again!
It's that good!
In the very first scene of the first episode of Season 1, "Hank Moody" (David Duchovny) walks into a church, approaches the huge statue of Jesus hanging from the wall, and says he wants to talk!
As he starts to tell JC his woeful tale, a Nun in full Habit approaches and offers to help.
Moody hesitates.
Then the Nun says she'll do oral sex on him to help him through his writer's block!
Hank is in love--deeply--with Karen (Natascha McElhone), who he used to live with in New York in unwedded bliss, where they conceived
Becca (Madeleine Martin), before moving to Venice CA, where Hank is managed by longtime friend Charlie (Evan Handler), who's married to the scrumptious little sex freak Marcy!
Hank wants to get back with Karen so bad, but he always screws things up--literally!--just when it seems his greatest wish is coming true!
One big problem happens when Karen's new beau Bill's daughter (Mia, played by Madeline Zima) winds up in Hank's bed--at age 16!--by mistake.
Hank thought she was older!
Becca is really my favorite character.
When the show began--in 2007--she was supposed to be 12 years old.
But she showed the wisdom of someone twice her age!
And, on a personal note, I recently fell in love (figuratively speaking!) with the Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett.
Magnificent talent! (Read my review of her CD on Amazon!)
But what struck me when I first saw Becca was---she looks EXACTLY like Courtney Barnett!!
(And Becca, in the show, is a rock guitarist and singer, like Ms Barnett!)
Every episode (12 per season, each about 25 to 30 minutes long) produces Laugh Out Loud moments, some so uproarious, I had to go back and re-watch the past 5 minutes again!
Yet the show has some very tender poignant moments too.
And several of those come when father and daughter are alone together!
A STRONG warning to those with delicate prudish souls--there's an ENDLESS array of cuss words---and I mean ones even your biker buddy never uses, as well as tons of nudity, fairly graphic (though not porn!) sex scenes, and frequent use of drugs, mainly marijuana and cocaine!
If you can handle all that, then you'll be loving this hippest & coolest of all shows!
And the selection of songs that are played throughout, and at each episode's end, fits the show like a glove!
The DVD set (the one I now happily own!) is great, works perfectly, and has 2 discs (with 6 episodes on each disc) per season, so there's 14 discs!.
Not much in extras, but every episode offers Closed Captioning which is easy to read!
If I could add a few stars to this show, I would!
In its day, "I Love Lucy" broke some walls down.
So did "All in the Family" and "NYPD Blue" in their eras.
For the years from 2007 through 2014 (The show skipped 2010 for some reason!), "Californication" raised the bar again!
(BTW, the show's name PERFECTLY describes the show!! LOL)