Californication Season 4, Hank’s trial

Posted on March 26th, 2011 by Richard Catto 1,479 views

I’ve just finished watching episode 11 of Season 4 of Californication,  a season which has been dominated by Hank’s trial for the statutory rape of Mia, who was 16 at the time (in Season 1, 3 years ago). Personally, I can’t relate to this or find anything to be outraged about, firstly because in South Africa the age of consent is 16 and therefore Hank would be guilty of nothing in this country. Secondly, it was quite clear he had no idea that the girl was 16 as she presented herself as being 20+.

In episode 11, Hank is found guilty by 12 jurors, another thing I can’t relate to, because in South Africa we don’t have juries. In South Africa, judges hand down judgement, not lay people who have no understanding of law. So I found the whole trial concept a non-starter and a silly thing to base an entire season around, unless the charges had some meat to them. Like if Hank had killed someone while driving drunk or high. Getting drunk and high is something Hank does on a regular basis. He also has sex on a regular basis but he’s not a rapist, he’s actually a gentleman when it comes to the ladies. It’s not as if he’s out there luring young girls into hotel rooms and molesting them.

Also the whole relationship with Karen (played by Natascha McElhone), his ex, has become very stale. I’ve never found Karen’s character particularly interesting. She’s mostly humourless and serious whereas Hank is lighthearted and fun which makes for interesting viewing. Hank’s daughter, Becca, has also not developed into much of a character. She could be a lot more interesting. She could be out there ingesting drugs, playing at rock concerts, sucking dick and taking guys up the ass, getting pregnant, wrecking cars (okay, she’s finally managed to achieve that) and generally being a total out of control wild ass rock star teenager. But she mostly hangs out at home with Mom (and sometimes Dad) and doing very tame gigs with an ineffective vocalist as her band’s lead singer. She could be out there turning her mother’s hair prematurely grey and sharing laughs and drugs with her totally irresponsible father. That could be the real reason for the rift between Hank and Karen, not this overblown outrage over a half-forgotten pomp with the utterly characterless and boring Mia. Mia (and her dumbass father) from Season 1 should be dead and buried and consigned to the trash heap long ago already. We’ve all moved on from that shit already. Mia (and her dad) are yesterday’s boring news. Bringing them back in Season 4 to torment Hank is just not cool and it’s boring the crap out of me.

The one scene that made me chuckle was when Hank was wearing a dickass suit and had his hair all wet and combed back and he said (with disgust) that he looked like a fucking FBI agent. (David Duchovny who plays Hank Moody in Californication previously played the part of Fox Mulder, an FBI agent in the X files.)

So episode 12 is the season finale. Californication has been renewed for a 5th season and I truly hope that we won’t have to endure watching Hank sit behind bars being visited by Karen, Becca and Charlie Runcle, because that would truly blow. Unless we finally get to see Hank blow some dick. That might actually be worth it, but only for 1 episode.

I really hope that the writers of this bitching series will get some inspiration and produce a truly mind blowingly exciting Season 5. If not, I may have to consider a career change and start writing some motherfucking TV episodes to show them how its done.

Tags: Californication, David Duchovny, Hank Moody
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House MD Season 7 Episode 17, When Art becomes Fart

Posted on March 26th, 2011 by Richard Catto 1,558 views

Following on from the demise of the House and Cuddy stupid little “relationship” which has infected Season 7 with healthy doses of relationship insanity, House meets a gorgeous and very compliant Russian chick who wants a green card via the marriage route.

House marries the Russian trollop who then attempts to seduce him on their wedding night, but House declines her affections. Considering that this is the same guy who (in the previous episode) blew $30 000 on high class hookers while holed up in a 5 star hotel with an exceptionally eager to please and equally exceptionally overweight bellhop, it is hard to believe that House would not tap that Russian ass. Fuck, I’d tap that Russian ass!

Oh and House’s team saves the life of an asswipe who turns out to be a serial killer. Pity. If Chase had cottoned on sooner, this could have been his second patient he snuffed out.

Tags: House MD, Hugh Lawrie
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