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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Is Californication the most repulsive show on TV?

Is there a more repulsive show on TV than "Californication"? Let me think - forget about the stupid reality shows which at least know what they are, cheap, tawdry diversions. No, Californication has some pretensions of being a serio-comic drama about a sex-addicted writer who hits bottom as he becomes entangled in a charge of statutory rape and is cut loose by his wife because of that notoriety but at the same time his career takes off because of the success de scandale. The writer, played by the once likable David Duchovny, proceeds to have sex with many beautiful women who throw themselves at his feet (ah, the fantasies some screenwriters come up with! writers rule the universe!) as he bumbles through life in LA being crude and cruel to every person he encounters. This series manages to make sex look bad - seriously, a half-hour of porno would probably be more entertaining and certainly would be more believable than this nonsense. There are many horrible, narcissistic people in Hollywood - maybe more than elsewhere. But trust me nowhere in Hollywood or anywhere else do people speak entirely in obscenity-laden, crude quips. If there are people like Duchovny who bumble around like alcoholic, drug-addled louts but somehow manage to charm every woman they meet - well, you wouldn't want to be anywhere near them. Fortunately, there are no such people - they are screenwriter/directors concoctions, more exploitative than reality shows, more ridiculous than porn. California oughta sue. Fornication oughta sue.

1 comment:

  1. Haha... if you think this series makes sex look bad, you haven't been paying attention. And there absolutely are people like Hank Moody everywhere you turn in this world. The show is funny, well-acted, shocking, tragic and smart...basically everything you could hope for in a cable series.

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