Californication: Season 4

I simultaneously love and hate Californication. I stopped watching it four years ago after the Season 3 finale. I always loved the fact that below the behavioral extremities Hank was an honorable guy. By the end of Season 3 there wasn't much honor left. I decided to give Season 4 a chance and found myself re-hooked. And Hank is still an honorable guy.More than any other character I have ever encountered - fictional, historical, literary or other media - Hank loves women in the same way I do. Whoever writes his character has a direct sync with my own predilections. If you wonder if Hank is real you can know that at least one real human thinks very much like him.I also enjoy the frank and unmodulated portrayal of masculine men.

On a personal note, my nickname is Mia, so when Mia sabotages Hank, if it were me and again this is just me...she would have been done away with ( you know the old Mafia way, concrete shoes, "don't worry how they look, how do they feel" but that is just me.....and on the other hand there has to be a reason for the season...I just took it a little too personally.Many twists and turns and thank God for Hank's agent, as Hank is treated with love and dignity and tons of piss off towards the thieving Mia, collectivley.Again, a winner, and great to watch and enjoy and get all involved in and tweaks every emotion for the viewers.

Agh! I miss this show. Watching each week was like hanging out with my friends. Yes, I am lonely, but that's beside the point. This show was really well written and the acting is brilliant. The music and witty banter is often specific to my generation. The younger kids might not "get" all the hilarious cultural references, but it is still a great show about a people (that's our species, y'all!) trying their best to find love. Sooooo good.

Californication is one of the funniest shows on the tube. I recommend it to anyone who needs a good laugh.David Duchovny is Hank Moody inside and out. He's funny, apologetic or tries to be, he's human who makes a ton of idiotic mistakes.He makes us men look bad but he does it with some beautiful women and I'm JEALOUS!I cannot wait for season 5!Here's to Hank Moody!

I love this series because it captures the life of some Californians, mimics others. Sometimes it's tongue in cheek ( your own or someone else's). The series is always fun because it's shot outside or in homes but never in studio ( or so it seems). It is almost a travelogue of the West Side.

Love thius series!! It remeinds me of another lifetime;)! My 16 yr old loves it as much as I do...whats not to like hot women of all sizes and shapes getting naked and getting it on! The hilariousness of REAL LIFE (thuis series is based on Duchovny's friend/producer) who lives like this (apparently David has some "practice" re the character according to his (separated now), wife Tea Leoni!

Season 4 Duchovny approved...go watch how our story unfolds from the mean streets of Santa Monica to the desolate wastelands of Venice California (Not Italy) and West Hollywood. by far one of the better seasons of HBO programming in general. We see how our hero/ anti hero is evolving from the Jail cell to the Bedroom and eventually the courtroom. A nice Cameo by Rob Lowe and a few others that round out this season focused in on Hank's life at the " Chateau Marmont." How very cool...how very LA ... I love that town, for all it's glitz, glam...east ...west and Food trucks in-between. Thanks' Hank for keeping it real in this season...not quite jumping the shark...but soon....soon.

This show never ceases to amaze me. I am constantly laughing and then the next minute contemplating life in general. David M does a phenomenal job with his laid-back horn dog acting. In fact all the supporting characters are exceptional. Sex, sex & more sex. But funny as all hell.

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Californication è in assoluto una delle serie che preferisco, da guardare rigorosamente in inglese per non perdere la brillantezza dei dialoghi e delle battute.

Cette saison reprend bien sûr les ingrédients des précédentes, et peut sembler démarrer poussivement dans les deux premiers épisodes, en reprenant des situations et des ingrédients déjà vus. Mais sa spécificité est d'approfondir la déprime de Hank, sa recherche désordonnée du bonheur, jusqu'à l'amener à plus de lucidité à la fin. Son procès est l'occasion d'un retour sur lui-même, et toute la saison a ce caractère plus introspectif, Hank faisant un bilan de son existence et de ses échecs, et déprimant parfois, puisque c'est une plongée dans une existence à la fois délirante et vaine. Beaucoup de situations et de relations mises en place précédemment vont trouver leur aboutissement ici, et la série aurait d'ailleurs pu s'arrêter sur le dernier épisode.Les dialogues sont toujours aussi brillants, impertinents et osés, et les acteurs toujours aussi bons, avec de nouvelles recrues de qualité (comme l'avocate de Hank, ou les acteurs du film).Une plongée donc un peu plus mélancolique dans l'univers torturé de l'écrivain romantique à la dérive, entre sa vie familiale impossible et rêvée (explicitement dans un des épisodes), et son penchant maladif pour le sexe (il faut dire que son succès auprès des femmes ne l'aide pas !).

I am happy that for the first time this series gets a release on Blu-ray. It is beyond me why they only started with the 4th season to give it the royal Blu.ray treatment. Californication is one of the best and most successful TV shows and would have deserved a release on Blu right from the start!The high definition image and sound (Dolby TrueHD) are brilliant and in another league compared to the underwhelming offering of the DVD format.I hope that the first three seasons will also be made availabe on Blu-ray soon!

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