After six seasons of six years of debauchery, Californication has finally ran out of kinky and humiliating sex acts because the seventh season will be its last. Although they may have run out of kinky and humiliating sex acts last season because even though it still takes place on the west coast, the fornication is at a minimum in the last season. But since there is still one season, Hank will need a job and after burning bridges in the literary world, music, education, movies, and theater, so really the only place left for him to go is in television. Or as Hank calls it, “The house the mediocrity built.”
Hank conveniently lands a spot on the writing team for Santa Monica Cop, yes the movie he worked on two seasons ago with RZA. Well that movie never got finished and instead got converted into a series complete with the director that Hank did not get along with when it was a movie. Ironically the fake television show stars Brandon T. Jackson who was cast in the Beverly Hills Cop television show as Axl Foley’s kid last year that never actually made it to air.
Of course the writers’ room is filled with interesting characters. Hank’s boss is Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos
) who has spent his time since filming liquor ads growing his hair out to hippie levels. Mary Lynn Rajskub (24
) is another writer and someone Charlie eyes as a potential client. And what would the final season be without an Eddie Nero sighting, who wants on the show so he can get an EGOT (though he does not entirely know what exactly what it stands for).The final season actually starts right where last season left off, with Hank knocking on Karen’s door. Hank decided not to go on the road with a rock star to reconnect with his baby mama. The baby in question showed she was not in fact a baby to go on a road trip with a boyfriend (Becca spend most of the final season on the road, not popping back up until the penultimate episode). Also last season, Charlie and Marcy got remarried.
Without his daughter around, Hank takes an interview with a writer for a college newspaper in the season premiere. Although Oliver Cooper (Project X
) spends most of time on screen ripping off Jonah Hill’s early career baboonery obese kid act. Heather Graham (Boogie Nights
) will show up as his mother which leads to, well this is Californication, it is pretty obvious were this is heading with Hank. But the best part of the finale season is, even though Charlie won the girl, his feud with Stu is still has plenty of laughs to milk.In the middle of season, there is your very special episode filled with the obligatory flashbacks which every season of the show seems to have. And with the debacle that was the How I Met Your Mother finale still fresh in people’s memory, the ending of Californication should be much less frustrating for longtime viewers.
Californication airs Sundays at 9:30 on Showtime after new episodes of Nurse Jackie.
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