User Reviews

I ended up watching "The Ride-Along" before this one, as by the time I realized I missed an episode (SPOILER - because Becca and that D-Bag were back together), I didn't care. The next day though, I decided I had to watch it, as the one-liners and sharp wit are my favourite part of the show, and I watch it more for this than the plot.

Let me say - this episode was ALL one-liners and sharp wit. By the end it started dragging a bit with the usual over-the-top dramatics and sentimentality, but the dinner party scene was an instant classic. Runkle's side plot with (SPOILER - the virgin), was pretty entertaining B material as well.

I am giving this one a 9, I thought the Ride-Along was about a 5 or a 6.

Something I liked the most so far about Californication is that in fact no one is really perverted there, just their lifestyles bring them into all kinds of bizarre situations - especially Hank's charmingly retarded lifestyle. In other words, this used to be a brilliant comedy of situation. One of the funniest I ever stumbled upon, slowly moving borders of acceptable pervertedness. This season however seems to have crossed over into a territory where witty bizzareness matures into overload of perversion and lack of its trademark great californicative situation. If we leave all these characters only with their dirty talk and no dirty-sweet-funny situation in the first place, what do we have? Bunch of rich sex addicts who sit at the table and discuss their porn styled relationships. It's lame. I hope some new sweet villain like Mia or walking nuclear waste like Rick Springfield will pop out and save the day, cause guys this leads where?