Tangled Up In Blue
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REWRITING THE RULES: David Duchovny makes being bad so damn good
and his battered Porsche 911 in Californication

Despite its racy content, plenty of viewers in the US failed to turn off
their TVs in horror, or switch over to something more explicit

Happy endings may get a bad rap, but they do happen. And when they do — they’re
just as true as the unhappy ones

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Tv’s Most Irresistible Bad Boys

Distracted, undisciplined, addicted to drugs and women — that’s Hank Moody,
star of Californication, TV’s new darker than dark comedy. By Monique
Whitaker

Hank Moody is that bad habit you just can’t kick. He’s unreliable: he’s late
picking his daughter up from his ex-girlfriend — and arrives without pants.
He’s rude (a blind date storms out of the restaurant before starters). He’s
trying to steal someone else’s fiancée — well, she’s actually the
ex-girlfriend he wishes he’d married when he had the chance.

He’s also played by David Duchovny, who’s so effortlessly, hopelessly
charming in the role that you always let him have one more chance. And
though Hank’s cocky enough that he regularly gets punched for it, he’s also
so self-doubting and mired in writer’s block that you can’t help forgetting
you’re angry and asking him how he’s doing.

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At least some critics "get it"

Apr 4 2008, 12:25 PM EDT by luvducov

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Drugs, Dirty Deeds Spell Success For Showtime

Published On Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:09 PM

By RUBEN L. DAVIS
Crimson Staff Writer
He’s a writer who doesn’t write. Well past his mid-20s, he still does drugs
that go up your nose. He drinks in the morning and has more sexual partners
in a week than your Uncle Terry uncouthly claims to have in a year. He is a
man who, in normal conversation, uses words that without one’s eyeglasses
might appear to read “aunt” or “hussy.”

Hank Moody, played by David Duchovny on Showtime’s “Californication,”
shouldn’t be likeable. He shouldn’t be relatable. And he certainly shouldn’t
be the main character of a recently renewed series that—in spite of the
writer’s strike*—will soon start its sophomore season.

While cable television has certainly been home to a host of dysfunctional,
even inhuman protagonists, most live life atop unusual and generally
unsavory backdrops—notably, morgues, maximum-security prisons, and New
Jersey.

Like its big-sister show “Weeds,” though, “Californication” takes place in
the well-to-do suburbs of Los Angeles, a part of the country in which family
dysfunction has almost invariably been depicted to be the unfortunate yet
tolerable by-product of a desirably moneyed and beautiful life.
Historically, viewers tend to excuse this and other kinds of objectionable
behavior in television when presented with it as either part of a drama
(polygamy, “Big Love”) or with a strong emphasis on the aforementioned
glamour (general irresponsibility, “Entourage”). It is of note, then, that
neither “Californication” nor “Weeds” is written in one of these veins—and
that each is still finding success.

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Californication complaint dismissal infuriates lobby

Apr 4 2008, 12:18 PM EDT by luvducov

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5:00AM Monday March 31, 2008
By Yvonne Tahana
A lobby group has called the Broadcasting Standards Authority "morally
bankrupt" after it failed to uphold complaints about TV3 drama
Californication.

Family First New Zealand laid one of five complaints with the authority
which alleged the first episode broadcast in November breached standards of
good taste and decency.

Complaints related to a dream sequence where a nun performed oral sex on
lead character Hank Moody, constant foul language, teenage drug use and
explicit sex scenes.

National director Bob McCoskrie argued that broadcasters are consistently
pushing the boundaries of what is normal and acceptable, glorifying and
normalising drug and alcohol abuse, pornography, offensive language,
violence and degrading treatment of women.
But in a decision released today the BSA said its decision not to uphold the
complaint was based on factors such as the programme being preceded by a
verbal and written warning, the Adults Only rating, a 9.30pm broadcast time,
audience expectations as a result of prior publicity and the title which
indicated it was likely to contain "challenging content."
It said Hank's "sexual encounters were often more bizarre than satisfying"
and scenes such as Hank having sex with a girl he later finds out is 16 are
examples of "extraordinary situations" that Hank finds himself in. "It was
important to the storyline and, in the authority's view, was not designed to
titillate viewers."
Mr McCoskrie calls the BSA's reasons lame and bizarre.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10501082

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