CalifornicationNo Way to Treat a Lady
Original Air Date: Oct 12, 2008
Susannah Buzard - TwoCents Reviewer
susannah@thetwocentscorp.com
In this episode, past resentment for Hank continues to reemerge when Karen finds herself chatting with the prostitute that Hank bedded in Season 1. Trixie the prostitute (Duchovny’s line “How’s tricks?” is damn funny) tells Karen, “That brown haired guy, he is pretty good in the sack department.” Suddenly I am reminded of what it’s like to date a player… sucky. You feel like you’re not special, and you know lots of other people in town have sampled the goods. Ugh. Not sexy at all. Karen later states, “There is nothing I find sexy about you right now.”
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In this episode, past resentment for Hank continues to reemerge when Karen finds herself chatting with the prostitute that Hank bedded in Season 1. Trixie the prostitute (Duchovny’s line “How’s tricks?” is damn funny) tells Karen, “That brown haired guy, he is pretty good in the sack department.” Suddenly I am reminded of what it’s like to date a player… sucky. You feel like you’re not special, and you know lots of other people in town have sampled the goods. Ugh. Not sexy at all. Karen later states, “There is nothing I find sexy about you right now.”
ReplyDeleteThe scene opens with Karen in Hank’s apartment, which suddenly seems tiny compared to the house she had with Bill. They should definitely move out of his bachelor pad ASAP if they want this relationship to work. Karen is making breakfast and Hank is attempting to acquire some morning nookie. Later in the episode we learn that they haven’t had sex since Hank’s vasectomy…. Alarming?
Mia then enters the apartment in her little naughty girl school uniform, and Becca appears. Didn’t Hank make Karen promise that she would never make Becca attend that school after he meets the super sketchy English teacher? What happened? Clearly Becca must attend Mia’s school so Mia can have a few scenes. I never thought I’d write this, but I miss Bill. He is pathetic but his “dial tone” character offers a humorous counterpoint to Hank’s blatancy and irreverence.
Later in the day, Karen visits her friend (the Scientologist who barfed in her bedroom with naked Hank last season – possibly the best scene ever?) and her self-help writer boyfriend. Her friend believes in her partner “Listen to him, he knows his sh**”) whereas Karen can “hardly believe that hanging out with rock stars who make six figures a year for doing nothing” constitutes a career. Mnnn.
When Hank paints Trixie’s toenails and tells her the story of Karen jumping into his car on the day of her wedding, I am digging this scene. “Sometimes my whore logic gets all f*%$ed up” she says sweetly, after she offers Hank services. Somehow, she is so likeable; I don’t even find her offensive. Even when she says,“Yeah, like when I’d be with this gross Persian guy in the Four Seasons, I’d suddenly wonder, ‘I wonder how Hank is doing?’
I think I’ll skip the scene where Charlie picks up the porn star who had her butt waxed in the last episode. Although I laughed when he is stuck in the car when porn star is “performing”, this storyline has got to change course soon. It’s embarrassing. I know the title of the show includes the word “fornication”, but Charlie is beginning to seem like a caricature who puppets around and does dirty things with very little success. He lacks the tragedy Hank possesses which makes him appeal to us despite his flaws – or am I a harsher judge of Charlie because he isn’t as good looking? Does anyone else think Charlie is becoming a bit one dimensional? I like it best when Charlie and Hank converse – the scene last episode when Hank tells Charlie he looks like “He crawled out of the dumpster at Red Lobster” and refers to the stench of a “mermaid’s ass” is the funny and endearing stuff of true friendship. But after the secretary slave, does he have to represent a porn star? Let’s give him a little more dimension, please, writers.
The final scene of the episode seems like the makings of a possible breakup. Karen tells Hank she hates him after she expresses her discomfort at his past tryst with Trixie the prostitute. Hank reaches for the cigarettes he hid in a bowl on top of the fridge, which indicates that if he is going to fight with Karen, he may as well succumb to one of his vices. The episode ends with Hank closing the glass door of his own apartment, looking in from the outside.
Hank is a cartoon character the writting has no depth at all. Hank can have any woman and he is the greatest dumb dumb I guess they only had one good season in them.
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