Should you watch Californication?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Californication
Series · 2007
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer 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.
The sides of Californication
- A novelist with writer's block in Los Angeles
- A daughter who sees everything
- A woman he keeps losing
Californication is good for you if…
- you like a writer who talks his way out of everything and deeper in.
- you want to follow Hank Moody and his daughter Becca over years.
- you like a man who wrecks his own life and you stay with him.
Californication is bad for you if…
- you'd rather not have sex scenes, and there are many.
- you can't watch addiction and self-destruction up close.
About: addiction · fatherhood · love
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