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This dramedy chronicles the carnal escapades of Hank Moody, a self-loathing, alcoholic New York City novelist who attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.
27 June 1968, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
17 November 1951, Sarasota, Florida, USA
13 September 1968, Westchester County, New York, USA
8 March 1987, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Uzbekistan]
8 March 1966, USA
24 September 1980, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
7 August 1961, New York City, New York, USA
5 August 1950, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
6 May 1947, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
17 March 1958, Humboldt, Iowa, USA
16 November 1989, Los Angeles County, California, USA
6 March 1985, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
18 August 1964, USA
23 July 1980, Goffstown, New Hampshire, USA
August 13, 2007
Duchovny turns in a fabulously wry, cynical performance as Hank, a Los Angeles-based writer with a particularly active sex life, in this adults-only pay-cable series that packs brilliant humor, wild sex, and poignant moments into each half-hour episode
August 13, 2007
It acts like it wants to tell the story of Hank's comeuppance, his growth from obnoxious man-child to real man, but it can't bear the thought of the audience not liking Hank (and, by extension, Duchovny) right out of the gate.
August 13, 2007
Never mind the cliches, because Duchovny makes his character worth watching, as he swaggers from bad predicament to bad predicament, pretending not to care about his life anymore.
August 12, 2007
Duchovny has some nerve taking shots at TomKat. Were anyone else starring in Californication, the reference to a "crappy romantic comedy" might well have Duchovny's name on the receiving end. He's definitely got that one coming.
August 13, 2007
Sometimes sweet and wry, sometimes crass and vicious, and, though often subtle, it embraces that embarrassing title and flings itself boisterously into a hacky premise.
October 11, 2007
Fun, in a not-too-taxing, body-beautiful, image-conscious kind of way.
August 13, 2007
He [Duchovny] delivers a tousled sort of aw-shucks Huck Finn, lighting out for erotic territories. McElhone, manages to convey the notion of adult womanhood without being either drippy or schoolmarmish about it.
August 13, 2007
It's caustically compelling and David Duchovny is as rakishly appealing as any cad can be.
August 13, 2007
A caustic, sharp-edged mix of humor and drama that tiptoes along the edge of disaster but never drops into the looming abyss.
August 21, 2008
Californication is an imperfect show and much like its protagonist it has the potential to be better than it is.
