The Unfiltered Ramblings of a DVR Addict

“What fresh hell this is.”  Gotta love it when Hank quotes Dorothy Parker.

Season 3 of Californication starts off pretty much just as you would expect it to with Hank Moody falling asleep mid-coitis.  He blames his sleeping on his new schedule and being the primary care giver.  The girl leaves and Hank is caught by Becca and her friend Chelsea.  Hank discovers that they are stoned, and that they have actually been raiding his stash.  He gives them a little hypocritical advice about the trouble with weed, and then proceeds to light up himself.

The next day Hank visits Charlie at his new agency and find out that no one wants to publish his new book.  The two are interrupted by Charlie’s new boss Sue Collini, played by Kathleen Turner.  She expresses an interest in Charlie’s “Runkle” if you catch my drift and the two plan to meet for a drink that evening.  Before that Charlie meets with his soon-to-be-ex-wife Marcy and a mediator about the state of their divorce.  Their house they shared still hasn’t sold and Charlie plans to move back in to save money.

Hank is waiting to pick Becca up from school when he is approached by Chelsea’s mom Felicia, the English Department chair at a local university.  She is upset that the girls had access to weed when they were at Hank’s house plus she invites him over for a dinner party that evening.

Hank, en-route to the dinner party tries to pass a cyclist and can’t get by.  The cyclist gives Hank the finger.  Hank speeds up and tells him to “Livestrong” and he flicks his lit cigarette at the guy and send him flying into the bushes.  At the dinner party Hank shows up to meet the other guests who include one of Hank’s favorite authors, his teaching assistant, and the cyclist Hank ran off the road who turns out to be his host, Dean Koontz played by Peter Gallagher.  Hank give the author, who hasn’t had a drink since “Slick Willy” was in office, some scotch and it send him off the deep end.  At dinner, Hank embarrasses himself with his usual banter, but guessing that the two teenage girls, his daughter Becca and his host’s daughter Chelsea might be lesbians.  He also hits it off with the teaching assistant who tells him that unless he is a serious prospect her uterus can’t handle it, so back off.  Sparks are gonna fly there.  By the end of the night Felicia all but offers him a job teaching in place of the now off the wagon author that Hank got drunk.

Charlie meets his new boss Sue at a bar and the two have a drink.  She makes it clear that she is interested in him sexually grabbing his junk and telling him,  “Sue Collini always gets the weenie.”  Afterwards Charlie heads to his home as asks Marcy to let him in.  He fakes a problem with his IBS to get inside, and then begs Marcy to let him stay.  I don’t  know how these two are going to work out as roommates.

Back at home Hank calls Karen back in New York.  Strangely enough the two still have a real serious connection still.  Obviously they have an understanding as far as dating goes, but their love for one another seems to run deeply.

I don’t think Hank is going to have any issues in the love department this season, not that he ever does.  How about Kathleen Turner as Sue Collini.  I think she is going tobe great, but what happened to her?  I mean she doesn’t even look like the same person.

I think this will be another good season of Californication.  It’s great that Showtime has become such a great network for original programming.  It’s still no HBO, but it is nice that another cable network out there is making real quality stuff.