vipficko89 Just have to say i was so hooked on this tv show until season 7 started, idk what happened with directors and writers and w/e but this in really unwatchable, thank you for puting that fat kid in this tv show and ruining it so hard, this is embarising, i was watching like 1 season a day, but now i can't stand to watch this, shoulda ended this show after season 6, this is my first review and i know it's bad but i am rly mad right now.

ElessarAndurilS I didn't know David Duchovny had slipped into a comedy on Showtime back in the after years of launching from X-Files, but having always thought he had a very good dry sense of humor come through in his acting I was pleased to see "Californication" on Netflix. I found the show to be excellent. I loved that it ended with him and Karen together accepting the imperfection of their relationship since that is so much more real than what romantics sell. Those old couples who make a life together know this truth, that the secret to a long relationship is not changing the other person or a storybook life. It is accepting all their shortcomings and failures and standing by their side in spite of them. If people got married with that reality as an expectation there would be fewer divorces.The show simply made me laugh, many times unexpected and out loud. Streaming it on my laptop my wife got interested because she had to find out what was making me blurt out laughter unexpectedly so frequently. The stories push the boundaries of reality, but it's a comedy based on the messed up nature of human sexual desires so I expected it to and therefore dropped all judgemental-ism at the start. The extremes were amusing, the child more mature than the parent led to a good place in the story and added to the likability of a character who in trying to do the right thing always seemed to a) make the wrong decision or b) have fate throw it upon him. A good watch, didn't burn out on it like I did Weeds and it let me have an ending where I got to simply smile and move on.Do the same, great streaming show.

vukaroo It was good, but...there are only so many drugs you can take, loves you can make, hearts you can break, and laughs you can fake until it just doesn't matter anymore. That's exactly what happened to this series. I've also spent quite a bit of screen time with Duchovny and I can definitely tell when he's over it. Same thing happened during the end of The X-Files' 7th season. Californication couldn't have started better and it really was fresh up to the end of season 5. To avoid spoilers, I will just say that this series had something special that was lost when additional seasons were forced...

Tehmeh "Californication" was, for awhile, a good show. On the (rather large) surface, it was about sex, drugs and rock'n roll, about Hollywood lifestyle of the most degenerate kind. But on the inside, it was a love story about broken people. The actors were fine. David Duchovny seems to handle his part with remarkable ease, and is the center of the show. Natasha McElhone and Madeleine Martin were good too, and all three of these formed an interesting, dysfunctional family. The clever writing also gave a boost for these characters. I especially loved how there were heartfelt moments of humanity between these characters in the middle of all the crazy, hedonistic mess these people found themselves in.And then the show just didn't end. It became a farce. This might be a weird comparison, but do you remember how The Simpsons started to go bad after season seven? This happened because the heart was gone. There was nothing "real" to hang on to anymore, and nothing had any weight anymore. This is the case with Californication too. What was just a setting before, was now at the forefront. All the good will was gone concerning the characters. All the humanity went away, as the show had nothing to say anymore and started to push the "how crazy can we get" limit too far. The characters I was fond of before, now felt like some cynical adult cartoons, doing all the same crazy things again and again. Just because. And every time there was supposed to a dramatic moment, it felt forced and ridiculously fake. This show stopped earning the respect I once had towards it. It was a really good show, and it turned into steaming pile of cynical mediocrity with nothing to say. Some of the actors were still somewhat alright even in the end (although the characters got butchered), and sure, there are a couple of cheap laughs to be found here and there, but it's really all just filler at this point.I love how stories revolve around something that's really fake and superficial, and find something real in the midst of it all. And I hate it when that piece of humanity is lost right after it's found, never to be found again.I'd recommend watching seasons 1-3, and even that would be a stretch. The first season is the best and really good in many ways, and I'd recommend watching at least that. Then the show starts to get worse and worse the longer it goes on. I'd say that season 6 is the worst one. It felt like an art school student beat me up and force-fed Bukowski fanfiction down my throat. Perhaps someone finds it deep. I find it the worst kind of shallow: pretentious.Shame. This was a good show at some point. I guess it's like with some favorite bands I used to have: some of them just didn't have anything to say anymore. They drowned into the deep end of mainstream mediocrity pool. Like an artist who stops making art, and starts making ads.