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Californication (TV series)
Californication is an American comedy-drama that premiered on Showtime on August 13, 2007. The show was created by Tom Kapinos. The protagonist, Hank Moody , is a troubled novelist whose move to California, coupled with his writer's block, complicates his relationships with his longtime girlfriend...

is a television series created and executive produced by Tom Kapinos
Tom Kapinos
Tom Kapinos is a Greek-American television executive producer and screenwriter best known for his creation of the television series Californication....

, which debuted on Showtime on August 13, 2007 in the United States. It stars David Duchovny
David Duchovny
David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer and director. He has won Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.-Early life:...

 as Hank Moody, a famous writer undergoing a mid-life crisis whilst trying to negotiate an uneasy relationship with his longtime girlfriend and connect with his teenage daughter.

, a total of 48 episodes of Californication have aired, concluding the fourth season.

Series overview

Seasons Episodes Premiere Finale
1 12 August 13, 2007 October 29, 2007
2 September 28, 2008 December 14, 2008
3 September 27, 2009 December 13, 2009
4 January 9, 2011 March 27, 2011
5 January 8, 2012 March 25, 2012

Season 1 (2007)

The first season of Californication premiered August 11, 2007 and ended October 29, 2007. The season followed Hank and the other main characters in the months leading up to Karen's planned marriage to Bill, a Los Angeles publisher. Hank is wallowing deep in self-loathing following the release of A Crazy Little Thing Called Love, which he perceives as a sub-par yet popular movie adaptation to his most recent novel, God Hates Us All.

After picking up a younger woman in a bookstore, Hank finds out that she is actually Bill's 16-year-old daughter, Mia. Hank spends most of his time drinking and not writing. Meanwhile, Mia continues to haunt Hank during his visits to his family, using the threat of exposing his statutory rape of her to steal stories for her creative writing class. The death of his father triggers an alcohol fuelled binge and an eventual sexual encounter with Karen.

After his father's funeral, Hank stays in New York to finish a manuscript for a new novella. However, when Hank returns to LA, the original copy is lost when he is carjacked. Mia however has retained her own copy, and chooses to pass the work off as her own. On Karen and Bill's wedding day, Hank chooses to accept the way things are, but as he leaves the reception with his daughter Becca, Karen runs out and jumps into the car, riding into a new life together.
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Season 2 (2008)

The second season of Californication premiered September 28, 2008, and ended December 14, 2008. The newly reunited couple of Hank and Karen is seeming to work out, their house is on the market and Becca seems happy again. Hank gets a vasectomy and attends a party invited by Sonja, a woman Hank had sex with in the first season. A mistake and a fight with an obnoxious police officer lands Hank in jail, where he meets Lew Ashby, world-famous record producer. He commissions Hank to write his biography.

Charlie loses his job due to masturbating in his office several different times, and becomes the paternal figure and agent of a porn star named Daisy. Charlie decides to get into the porn industry and finances the porn movie "Vaginatown", starring Daisy. Marcy goes into rehab for her cocaine addiction and Charlie starts an affair with Daisy. Hank proposes to Karen on the night that they discover that Hank could be the father of Sonja's child. Karen says no after hearing the news about Sonja's baby, and Hank decides that they can no longer be together.

Hank moves in with Ashby, who starts a romance with Mia (much to Hank's dismay). Becca finds a boyfriend named Damien. Mia's book becomes a hit and Ashby holds a party in its honor, where Damien cheats on Becca and Charlie decides to divorce Marcy to get together with Daisy. After the party Hank sees that Ashby's old girlfriend (The one that got away) has finally showed up to see Lew and when Hank goes upstairs to get him, Ashby dies of an overdose of heroin which he had mistaken for cocaine.

Hank finishes Ashby's biography. Charlie ends up working in a BMW dealership in the Valley. Sonja's baby is born and turns out to be half black, making it clear that Hank cannot be the father. Hank and Karen are slowly starting to get together again. Karen then gets offered a job in New York and Hank is happy to go back to New York with her, but when Damien apologizes to Becca and the two get back together again, Hank decides it would be wrong to take Becca out of Los Angeles. He decides to stay, while Karen starts her job in New York. The season closes with Karen's plane leaving for New York and Hank and Becca walking on the Venice boardwalk.
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Season 3 (2009)

The third season of Californication premiered September 27, 2009, and ended December 13, 2009.
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Season 4 (2011)

The fourth season premiered on 9 January 2011 and concluded on 27 March 2011.
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