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    Temptation: Music From the Showtime Series Californication

    Different stars

    • 1 The Rolling StonesYou Can't Always Get What You Want (Mono Version) 4:50
    • 2 Peeping TomMojo 3:39
    • 3 My Morning JacketRocket Man 4:59
    • 4 The Doors & Paul OakenfoldL.A. Woman (Paul Oakenfold Remix) 4:20
    • 5 Tommy StinsonLight of Day 4:55
    • 6 Josh Blake & The Country GentlemenPain and Misery 4:24
    • 7 Mindy SmithPeace of Mind 3:16
    • 8 ArcoLullaby 3:09
    • 9 Bob DylanIf You See Her, Say Hello 4:48
    • 10 Harvey DangerLittle Round Mirrors 5:15
    • 11 Madeleine MartinDon't Let Us Get Sick 2:21
    • 12 Gus BlackParanoid 3:25
    • 13 Argyle JohansenSunny Day In Hell 2:37
    • 14 Mexican Institute of SoundA Girl Like You 3:43
    • 15 BonoboBetween the Lines (featuring Bajka) 4:35
    • 16 Warren ZevonMohammed's Radio 4:50
    • 17 Madeleine MartinSurrender (Unreleased Track) 1:57
    • 18 The HeavyThat Kind of Man 3:38
    • 19 LodgerBad Place To Earn a Living 3:16
    • 20 ChampionKeep On 4:26
    • 21 Steve Earle & Reckless KellyReconsider Me 2:34
    • 22 Madeleine MartinOnly Women Bleed (Unreleased Track) 1:52
    • 23 Elton JohnHigh Flying Bird 4:12
    • 24 Tommy Stinson & Friends for Done to DeathYou Can't Always Get What You Want (Unreleased Track) 6:29
    • 25 Тайлер Бейтс & Tree AdamsHank's Theme (Bonus Unreleased Track) 3:18
    Completed

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    " Hank Moody… No man is more committed to a midlife crisis."
    Country
    Runtime 26 – 33 min
    Premiere: World August 13, 2007
    Premiere: USA August 13, 2007
    Channel Showtime (21:30, United States)
    Digital: World November 20, 2013
    Parental Advisory Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking, Profanity, Sex & Nudity, ...
    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      plenty

    • Profanity

      plenty

    • Sex & Nudity

      plenty

    • Violence & Gore

      few

    Production Companies Showtime NetworksAggressive MediocrityAnd Then…...Twilight Time Films

    Description

    A writer tries to juggle his career, his relationship with his daughter and his ex-girlfriend, as well as his addiction to beautiful women.
    Season 1
    s1: e1 — Season 1, Episode 1  1

    Pilot

    August 13, 2007 8.3
    s1: e2 — Season 1, Episode 2  

    Hell-A Woman

    August 20, 2007 7.9
    s1: e3 — Season 1, Episode 3  1

    The Whore of Babylon

    August 27, 2007 7.8
    s1: e4 — Season 1, Episode 4  1

    Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser

    September 3, 2007 7.9
    s1: e5 — Season 1, Episode 5  

    LOL

    September 10, 2007 7.9
    s1: e6 — Season 1, Episode 6  

    Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

    September 17, 2007 7.6
    s1: e7 — Season 1, Episode 7  

    Girls, Interrupted

    September 24, 2007 8.0
    s1: e8 — Season 1, Episode 8  

    California Son

    October 1, 2007 8.3
    s1: e9 — Season 1, Episode 9  

    Filthy Lucre

    October 8, 2007 8.2
    s1: e10 — Season 1, Episode 10  

    The Devil’s Threesome

    October 15, 2007 8.6
    s1: e11 — Season 1, Episode 11  

    Turn the Page

    October 22, 2007 8.1
    s1: e12 — Season 1, Episode 12  

    The Last Waltz

    October 29, 2007 8.8

    Сast and Crew

    Legacy

    White Famous, a TV series that premiered in October 2017 and was co-created by Californication's creator Tom Kapinos, features some secondary characters first introduced on Californication, such as Stu Beggs (played by Stephen Tobolowsky) and Kali (played by Meagan Good).

    God Hates Us All was subsequently published as real-world paperback, ghost written by author Jonathan Grotenstein.

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    Critique: 41

    59%
    24 17
    Salon.com January 9, 2011

    If you watch this series every week, please stop. You’re just enabling it.

    usatoday30.usatoday.com August 13, 2007

    How lucky for Californication that it found David Duchovny, who makes the unlikeliest twists believable and the most heinous behavior forgivable.

    Slate August 13, 2007

    Sometimes sweet and wry, sometimes crass and vicious, and, though often subtle, it embraces that embarrassing title and flings itself boisterously...

    AV Club January 13, 2013

    At times, "The Unforgiven" feels desperate to reintroduce its cast by amplifying their cartoonish qualities, perhaps to offset Hank’s fa...

    Slate August 28, 2019

    Californication is worth taking a look at because it is funny and skuzzy and touching and occasionally genuinely erotic.

    Boston.com September 28, 2008

    I think Duchovny is still underappreciated for knocking this role out of the park. Hank Moody is convincingly gonzo, a brainy man desperate to let...

    New Yorker August 13, 2007

    Even charisma has limits, and Duchovny’s perfume can’t mask the unpleasant odor that emanates from "Californication."

    New York Times August 13, 2007

    "Californication" tries to poke fun at the hypocrisy and delusions of Hollywood, but it doesn’t have enough wit or sense of place to be very...

    San Jose Mercury News 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.

    Newark Star-Ledger September 28, 2008

    It’s hard to fight the feeling that maybe "Dexter" is a concept that has reached its expiration date.

    SFGATE September 28, 2008

    Californication in Season 2 seems like its indulging a certain person’s condition rather than illuminating the human condition, if...

    Variety August 13, 2007

    The premiere is watchable but not fully arousing, often feeling as clenched, dour and indecisive as its brooding protagonist.

    Guardian July 28, 2010

    If you haven’t got into Californication [yet], you should give it a whirl. It’s sharp, funny, sexy, wicked and the characters ...

    indieWire August 7, 2014

    What makes the complacent ending sting is knowing that "Californication" was at one point a complex program with dark, human undertones and an...

    online.wsj.com August 13, 2007

    Despite his nearly affectless face and inflectionless voice, Mr. Duchovny does fill the screen as Hank, forcing us to take his side whether we like...

    film.avclub.com November 17, 2018

    Californication is nine parts smug, self-congratulatory, foul-mouthed snark, and one part unearned sentimentality.

    AV Club January 9, 2011

    While this series' destination and journey might not aspire to high levels of sophistication, this season does feel as if it’s hurtling towar...

    Salon.com September 28, 2008

    Even David Duchovny and his real-life sex addiction can’t save the go-nowhere story of sad sack Hank Moody.

    Entertainment Weekly August 13, 2007

    Californication is flirting with incredibly interesting questions about the state of male-female relations – here’s hoping it actually g...

    Empire Magazine October 19, 2017

    Ironically for a show set in the smog-ridden sprawl of LA, Californication is a breath of fresh air.

    If Shameless lives up to its pilot, it could fit nicely among cable’s many have-it-both-ways dramas, the ones that wink at rock bottom while...

    He [Duchovny] delivers a tousled sort of aw-shucks Huck Finn, lighting out for erotic territories. McElhone, manages to convey the notion of a...

    Boston.com 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...

    HollywoodChicago.com September 3, 2009

    There’s reason to take a look at Californication and most of it its there in David Duchovny’s excellent lead performance. Fox Muld...

    Guardian October 11, 2007

    Fun, in a not-too-taxing, body-beautiful, image-conscious kind of way.

    Slant Magazine January 9, 2011

    If you’re able to get past the inconsistencies of tone, the first eight episodes of the season are still a lot of black-and-blue fun, wh...

    New York Daily News April 3, 2018

    He’s a hard candy with a soft center, and Duchovny makes even his hedonism and violent outbursts seem forgivable, if not admirable.

    SFGATE August 13, 2007

    Duchovny is so charmingly deadly as he takes the words of Kapinos and turns them into a kind of verbal weapon all too lacking on television, p...

    Guardian November 12, 2009

    Duchovny owns the show, injecting stylish humour as well as bucketloads of charisma and heart into his portrayal of the feckless, hapless Moody.

    I’m interested but not engrossed, though it offers the potential for a change-up in the Dexter storyline.

    Salon.com August 13, 2007

    "Californication" is reasonably charming straight out of the gate, and as the story progresses, the intelligence of the writing gains traction.

    AV Club January 8, 2012

    That’s the great pleasure of Californication. It’s never stayed grounded for very long, even within single exchanges or encounters, let...

    articles.latimes.com August 13, 2007

    Most of "Californication," makes us want to set fire to our hair and run screaming into the street.

    Variety April 11, 2014

    Alas, the swan-song episodes is emblematic of what’s been fun about the show but also the balancing weight of what’s wrong with it, inc...

    Slant Magazine January 8, 2012

    Kapinos’s resolve to find a fresh approach for Californication wherever it may be sacrifices some of the show’s consistent strengt...

    Slant Magazine January 12, 2013

    The season’s contrived storyline is a forced and inelegant string of events that tries to come across as serendipitous.

    Slant Magazine April 11, 2014

    The long, slow death of Californication is the final season’s unintended subtext.

    New York Times September 28, 2008

    The cast is too appealing to make "Californication" as genuinely distasteful as it tries to be. And at the same time the writing is too broad to ma...

    Variety September 28, 2008

    There’s a crude, unapologetic energy to "Californication" that embraces its sordid world with utter conviction.

    Vulture April 3, 2018

    This taut [final] episode – with no sex, no jokes, and, now, no family – brings the show far beyond where it’s ever been before.

    Guardian June 22, 2009

    Forty-five minutes of sex usually doesn’t make me this happy.

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    Quotes

    I may be easy, but I’m not sleazy.

    A morning of awkwardness is far better than a night of loneliness.

    The only thing you can control is how you react to things out of your control.

    I love women. I have all their albums.

    I think you know what you need to do. You just don’t want to do it.

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    Watched

    The first three seasons were fire, but then some kind of trash began. I even stopped watching it for a while, but then somehow I listened to the end with my left ear. You have to try hard to leak a good series. And Santa Barbara also finished off the relationship between the main character and his woman.

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    This show is SO unrealistic)) and so sad despite of women position in this show

    Episode 3 (season 1) — "The Whore of Babylon"

    Watched

    God, why did I spend so much time watching about the mentally retarded?

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    Watched

    David Duchovny. Favorite series. There is vulgarity, booze, drugs, jokes and phrases. Lots of explicit moments, so don’t watch with children!

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    Watched

    The series is cool. You can quote it all. The cast is perfect. True, there is a minus, in the last seasons the series has lost ground, so I had to take off a couple of points. But overall, definitely worth watching! Moody and Srankle are a killer couple

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    Watched

    Hank has great relationship with his daughter! At least something good in this show)

    Episode 4 (season 1) — "Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser"

    Watched

    Duchovny is shot all over his head, but he is beautiful. Bald is a cutie and the diamond of the series and his wife is in agony. The rest of the women (the wife of the main character, the daughter) were a mess. The last season was leaked, as for me

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    Watched

    So All episodes are going to be about sex in California?

    Episode 1 (season 1) — "Pilot"

    Watched

    Sour Californian mundanity, diluted with witty jokes and a wagon of pop culture references. There is something of Charles Bukowski here, but only a little.

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