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05-06-2008, 02:03 PM
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Californication worth a blind buy?
Title says it all. We didn't have Showtime until after the first season was over, but the show looked like something I might like. Thoughts?
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05-06-2008, 02:22 PM
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
My gf watched it when it aired and was liked it. I don't know that I'd recommend a "buy" though.
Seems like something that you might watch once and enjoy, but never watch again.
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05-06-2008, 02:31 PM
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
Worth a rental. But then again I don't buy TV on DVD so I'm probably of no help.
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05-06-2008, 04:28 PM
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
I believe it's been renewed, which means Showtime will probably rerun the first season before airing the second. I'd wait and watch it then. I liked the series, but I don't plan to buy it.
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05-06-2008, 04:28 PM
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
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Title says it all. We didn't have Showtime until after the first season was over, but the show looked like something I might like. Thoughts?
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Disappointing, to say the least. I like David Duchovny. I like shows about writers (especially if well written). I like female nudity. I like California. I like Porsches. I didn't like this show.
You can have a show about a basically unlikeable character or characters and, if it's funny enough, get away with it (Curb Your Enthusiam, anyone?), but this show wasn't half clever or funny enough to pull it off.
And if I want to see some hard pathos about a writer self-destructing and drinking himself to death, I can always watch Leaving Las Vegas again (but not without an anti-depressant).
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05-06-2008, 04:42 PM
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
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Disappointing, to say the least. I like David Duchovny. I like shows about writers (especially if well written). I like female nudity. I like California. I like Porsches. I didn't like this show.
You can have a show about a basically unlikeable character or characters and, if it's funny enough, get away with it (Curb Your Enthusiam, anyone?), but this show wasn't half clever or funny enough to pull it off.
And if I want to see some hard pathos about a writer self-destructing and drinking himself to death, I can always watch Leaving Las Vegas again (but not without an anti-depressant).
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That was my initial reaction, too. Did you stay with it? My guess from your description is no. Because it goes in unexpected directions and turns out not to be about that at all (and the characters get a lot more complicated, especially Duchovny's).
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05-06-2008, 06:52 PM
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
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That was my initial reaction, too. Did you stay with it? My guess from your description is no. Because it goes in unexpected directions and turns out not to be about that at all (and the characters get a lot more complicated, especially Duchovny's).
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Yeah, I stayed with it to the unexpectantly unbitter end, which looks like it was tagged on in case the show wasn't renewed.
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05-06-2008, 11:10 PM
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
If you like filthy language and lots of sex, then you might like it. It was a real turn-off for me. The writing just couldn't make up for the situations and characters.
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05-06-2008, 11:22 PM
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Michael Reuben
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
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Yeah, I stayed with it to the unexpectantly unbitter end, which looks like it was tagged on in case the show wasn't renewed.
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Interesting. For me the end was a logical progression once I realized, about three or four episodes in, that the overall story was about Hank picking himself up (admittedly in a pretty twisted way).
Maybe I would have liked it less if I weren't such a fan of some of the supporting case, like Madeleine Martin, who played Becca, and who was already performing on Broadway as a child, or Rachel Miner, whose Dani started off creepy and ended up hilarious. And I'll watch Evan Handler in just about anything.
I am curious, though, at what they have planned for a second season. If they try to cover the same ground again, it's going to get old very fast.
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If you like filthy language and lots of sex, then you might like it.
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You could say the same thing about Sex and the City.
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05-07-2008, 05:53 AM
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Re: Californication worth a blind buy?
I agree with Michael on all points, although I can see the point about the ending being "tacked on" in case the network pulled the plug on a second season.
Hank became much more likeable as the season progressed, and there are snippets of dialogue which will be with me forever (one of my favorites being his referral to cream cheese as " | |
