![]() ![]() I can't face it - and not just because Sunday's kickoff, which built on the relationship established in the series pilot, convinced me that I didn't miss much while I was away. (Duchovny's carnal misadventures were rudely funny, and he got his ass kicked quite a bit, which always put a smile on my face, but let's face it: Brian Benben is the Buster Keaton of screwing, and even at his wildest, Duchovny can't measure up.) I didn't watch the second or third seasons when I sat down to watch the first few episodes of Season 4 last week, the completist in me wondered if I should catch up on the rest. Within a few episodes it became painfully clear that "Californication" was a maudlin, self-important update of HBO's "Dream On," only with faux-cinematic music video interludes, and minus the frenzied slapstick. Duchovny, an original and occasionally brilliant comic actor, had been mostly AWOL from TV following the cancellation of "The X-Files." Between his innate likability, his fondness for grubby '70s films, and persistent off-screen rumors that he was real-life sex addict ( he denied it to Playgirl in 1997, but checked into rehab in 2008) I thought there was at least a chance that he and series creator Tom Kapinos would produce a comedy worth watching - maybe one worth thinking about. ![]() When I wrote about this show's premiere back in 2007, I gave it the benefit of the doubt. I'll dispense with "Californication" quickly because writing about it at length would make me sick.
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