Californication - Recap & Review - Vaginatown

Californication
“Vaginatown”

Original Air Date: Oct 26, 2008

Susannah Buzard - TwoCents Reviewer
susannah@thetwocentscorp.com

Episode 5 opens in a familiar format: a dream of wish-fulfillment. Hank imagines watching a game of table tennis with Becca and Karen. Becca hugs Hank and a few seconds later, Karen joins Becca, and the three of them embrace.

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Californication - Recap & Review - The Raw and the Cooked

Californication
The Raw and the Cooked

Original Air Date: Oct 19, 2008

Susannah Buzard - TwoCents Reviewer
susannah@thetwocentscorp.com

This episode opens with Karen returning home from Whole Foods to find Hank playing Guitar Hero instead of cleaning the apartment in preparing for their dinner party. The viewer immediately senses the tension between Hank and Karen when she turns off the television (interrupting Hank’s well established game of Guitar Hero) and tells him he should be preparing for the dinner party. She sounds like a responsible mom telling her irresponsible kid to get his act together, a dynamic which seems to have plagued the couple since they reunited.

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Californication - Recap & Review - No Way To Treat A Lady

Californication
No 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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Californication - Recap & Review - The Great Ashby

Californication
"The Great Ashby"

Original Air Date: Oct 5, 2008

Susannah Buzard - TwoCents Reviewer
susannah@thetwocentscorp.com

The second episode of Californication’s second season opens with Hank in prison during visitation with Becca and Karen. Merely one episode after we view Hank and Karen interact as a newly reunited couple, we are already beginning to witness their demise. Karen gives Hank the silent treatment, only communicating through Becca, who tells her father “Mom says you should use this time to think.”

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Californication - Recap & Review - Slip of the Tongue

Californication
Slip of the Tongue

Orignal Air Date: Sept 29, 2008

Susannah B - TwoCents Reviewer
susannah@thetwocentscorp.com

Episodes of Californication’s first season usually opened with Hank in the midst of a dream: there was the dream of a random beautiful nun who offers sexual favors, the dream of Bill kicking him and telling him to forget about the woman he didn’t want to marry, and the many dreams of him waking up with Karen by his side.

Season 2 opens in the absence of a dream.

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