Californication 5: Postscript
Wherever the script curve of the irresistible Hank Moody ( David Duchovny ) from Californication takes place - in the finale he invariably finds himself in the famous all over the place. However, if in the first four seasons all the endings were somehow tied to his inaccurate sexual contact with a minor a la"the girl has matured",in the fifth gullible ladies' man was beaten by an adult aunt, which is why she was offended as an adult ... These four seasons did not endure and hope. However, he asked Hank to shoot him once while he was happy? ..So, for a few years after that ugly story of crime and punishment, Hank lives almost happily in New York, even starts a relationship with a good girl, gets everything from her, and as gently as he does seems to be parting. The girl is shocked, she had other ideas about the relationship, obviously drawn from specialized magazines (they say, once it came tothis, then everything is serious).  This is just the right place, Hank needs to go to the West Coast - one brutal and well-armed rapper named Samurai Apocalypse (RZA) believes that the famous writer simply has to write a cool script on motivated by his, the rapper, a fascinating life. We all remember the hurricane mind-blowing Lou Ashby (Callum Keith Rennie), with whom Hank had a real boyfriend. So, with all the potential of a new alliance (black / white, rapper / writer, knight / kid, cool / cool), between Samurai and Moody the spark, whatever that means, did not slip through. And this whole story with a friend of Samurai, a woman-who-cannot-be-seduced,is very reminiscent of the classic“ Vincent Vega and his wife Marcellus Wallace ".Although we must pay tribute to the writers, in terms of dialogues they were at their best and did not lower the degree of specific humor. Just a joke about the Warsaw ghetto is worth it ...  As for the fight with your best friend - Charlie " Mathafuckaaaaa !!! " Ranklom - this move has been asking for a long time. And it's good that they saved it for the fifth season. Together with the story of how the fragile heart of an agent breaks with a sad ringing under the sharp heel of a cunning starlet. The other subplots were just as predictable. For example, the whining of the aged protagonists, they say,“young people are stepping on their heels, and I’m still hoo!”.Because of the desire to confirm this my“hoo”Usually, various stupid acts are committed, which in this case is the very salt of the series. Or, say, Becky falling in love with"an improved version of Hank " -after such a father, the girl will simply die of boredom if she is taken care of by some Something like a proper nerd.  For those who quit watching Californicationin the second season, accusing the creators (not that groundlessly ...) of striving only to profit - all this predictability was performed at the highest level: not a hint of falsehood, not passing jokes. Everything is shaved and licked like in the first four seasons. Hank Moody is the same (well, almost), and watching him catch another rare butterfly in his nets is still exciting. And he is just as playful and gallant with his beloved"giraffe"despite everything“jealous of her for the rain and covers her June curls with a denim jacket.”He is still real. a man who has“heart,
This is not House MD / "House", which cannot be fully understood: now he is a sociopath - now a fool in love, now he dies in the hell of self-flagellation - now he rises and smells, then he is Mother Teresa -then Seren Kierkegaard. Hank all at a glance - self-critical, ironic, romantic and ... exhausted. Tormented by his Peter Pan syndrome and the writers who constantly slip the most selective women on him and put him in very uncomfortable positions, that is, situations.  By and large, this kind of series - which are based on the charisma of the protagonist - do not really need new plots, they have been beaten enough. The main thing here is that the charisma does not fade, the fountain of jokes has not dried up, the eyes burned and the hope for great and pure love still loomed somewhere in the beautiful far away, now approaching, then again disappearing beyond the horizon. And the creators of Californication are coping with these tasks so far, which is clearly confirmed by the ratings of the fifth season, which nevertheless exceeded the indicators of the fourth. Showtime recently officially renewed the series for a sixth season and even announced some casting news. This means that after washing the stomach and a couple of cocktails with the prescribedthere Lou Ashby Hank will still return to his"giraffe".To get into something again ... The Topic of Article: Californication 5: Postscript. |
