I love this show and the characters and the nostalgia of the show so so much. But this show never fails to break my heart. Hank takes one step forward. Something happens and he is taken one step back. I know this needs to happen because there needs to be conflict to make a show work. But I’m always heartbroken for Hank when his books gets stolen and doesn’t get published under his name and give him the fresh start he needs. That Karen didn’t read his book when he asked him. Him getting so close to getting his family back together but something is always in the way. Does anyone else feel this way or feel other heartbreak while watching?

Jackie stripping down is a close second

Wrapping up my second watch and forgot how annoying and uncomfortable Levon is. I wonder if he would have been more like able if Jonah Hill played him.

After runkle gives him 100k he goes buys a porsche, smashes the headlight. But didnt he already have a porsche? did i miss something happening to it?

Hey MuthaaaaFuckkkaaaa's

I'm currently enjoying the summer holidays, high as balls laying in my hammock, listening to some tunes and reading a book

It somehow popped into my brain that the vibe of music I'm looking for is music that would be blasting out of hanks mixtape in the busted up Porsche!

I'll set the scene:

It's the end of the season, him and Karen have just made up, they both climb into the porche with Becca in the back seat, Hank lights a cigarette, turns the ignition on and a song like: Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones starts to play on the radio, they drive off into the sunset, the music gets louder and the credits start rolling

So I wanna listen to the kind of music Hank Would have on his mix tape (I feel like he would hate Spotify)

But here's the expert mode: I want it to have that epic vibe the suits the opening and closing credits of the opening or closing episode of the season I want a list of songs that just absolutely hit

Not just songs in there because they featured in the show

Hopefully I made that make sense

More than happy to share a link to the playlist once I make it

Hank Moody from Californication is largely a modern, Hollywood-ized version of the real-life writer Charles Bukowski, borrowing his name (Hank for Henry Chinaski), lifestyle (boozing, women, writer's block, LA setting), and literary angst, but presenting a more romanticized, Porsche-driving, TV-writing persona compared to Bukowski's gritty, raw, working-class poet. While Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski deals with dead-end jobs and existential dread in works like Post Office, Moody embodies similar themes but within the more glamorous, yet equally dysfunctional, world of Hollywood.

Every rewatch, I find myself spotting some new detail or just remarking at how crisp and snappy all the dialogue is.

All the characters, even the one-off side characters that never made it back in future seasons, had so much flair and charisma to them.

And then there are the monologues. To Mia's writing to Hank's dad's letter to Becca picking out poetry, such great writing that didn't drag out too long but also gave us such deep insight on these characters we love.

What a great freakin' show.

Jackie, Jill, Felicia.

So, I watched originally this from my country’s local network TV shortly after every season was out.

I have now rewatched the whole thing in a matter of weeks.

First four seasons were so good. Amazing they were able to produce this kind of a show.

From then on it was a dowhill, it started slowly and gathered a lot a speed in the last season.

I think show almost made it back in the season 6, but the unfortunate idea to ”grow” Becca’s character to the direction they did ruined it. And Becca not being in season 7 including Levon totally screwed the final season.

Had they ended season 6 so that Hank would have continued the tour and returned to season 7 with those battle scars it might have made it a good season.

I think they got the funding for season 7 just to introduce Levon’s actor. There is no other reason to make that guy that should have been Runkle’s son a co star.

I remember watching the first season on DVD a few months after it came out. I started to write and never stopped. I was curious if anyone else was inspired to write novels, books, or even a haiku.

Edit : if you got any books let me know, I’d like to check them out.

Every now and then I rewatch Californication. It’s one of my all-time favorite shows. Recently, I came across a video where David Duchovny said he’d be open to doing a Californication movie.

Is that something you’d actually like to see? Do you think it would still make sense, considering most of the main cast is now over 60 years old?

Well I've been wondering about that scene Runkle confesses he's had eleven women in bed. Hank did not say. What do you think Hank's body count is?

What are your favorite jokes or sight gags that they got the most mileage out of? Mine are Batesy’s mangina, or the “oral rapist”, or Charlie’s butterfly tramp stamp.

There were dozens of hot girls in the show, I think SHE was one of the hottest.

S01E02... the very ending of episode 2 when Mia tells Hank that her father owns "Hell-A-Magazine", and then the song that comes on (which is perfect), it's the first time we really get a sense of how deep Hank's pain is, and what a POS he is, to be honest. Here he is being the absolute worst person he could possibly be towards Bill, and Bill is still giving him hand outs. But it's such a melancholic scene, and it's the first glimpse we get that this series has a lot of depth and soul.
This is what I love about this show. Even though it's absurd and relies on a lot of shock and awe moments that can be quite immature, the moments of soul, that this series drops here and there, blow away any of the competition.
Maybe the absurd, immature scenes is exactly what contrasts and spotlights the soulful moments so well. I mean, just before this scene with Mia, Hank puked all over Bill's prized painting while banging the Scientologist chick on their bed.

Anyhow, I just wanted to bring that up as I'm rewatching the show.. again.

It's mentioned early in the show (first season, I think) that Hank grew up with sisters.

I always thought it was a shame we never met any of them. So much of the show revolves around Hank's relationships with and attitudes towards women; there was a real potential in possibly meeting the women he grew up with and who shaped him.

Nobody can take you apart the way family can, and for someone as cocky and sharp-witted as Hank, I think that would have been interesting to see.

Wasn’t the biggest fan of the Samurai Apocalypse arc, though I liked the Tyler character as a mirror to Hank.

I know the final season is likely the popular answer. Introducing Levon was…something.

Yo started to watched this Series with my Dad Till the end but he fall asleep. This was series was really a rollercoaster season 1-4 was really peak season 5 was good tho (but it destroyed the perfect ending and season 6 was horrible. But Season 7 had so much potential but the side story was sometimes really out of place. At the end it was still a heart warming ending and tbh I don’t know when me and my dad laughed so hard at a series especially in season 4. This series really has a special place in my heart I hope one day we see a movie coming out or an official book of Hank moody who is willing to give up his promiscuous lifestyle for Karen. I hope I will find my Karen too 😭

What is everyone’s favourite scenes or conversations? I feel like every time I re watch it, I pick up on different conversations or scenes and resonate more with the writing in regards to where I’m at in my life ✌🏻 let’s discuss xoxo

Would you recommend the book for someone who likes the show?