Analysis Of Californication

There is a little show on Showtime called Californication. Despite all of its crude humor of sexual acts involved in the show, it has been very successful, even though some of the content on the show would offend many people in this day in age. Californication, a show mostly based on sex, has mostly negative representation of sex and very few, but meaningful, acts of positive sex. Californication’s main character is Hank Moody, who just moved from New York to California. He is a troubled novelist who suffers from writer’s block. His drinking, womanizing and drug abuse makes his relationship with his daughter, Becca, and longtime girlfriend and lover, now ex, and who is the mother of Hanks daughter, Karen, very complicated. Throughout the

This shows has numerous amounts of sex scenes, showing what a womanizer Hank can be every chance they get. One of the most “bad sex” happens right after the “good sex” had happened. After Karen had rejected him Hank goes back to his old depressed ways. Drinking and having sex with random girls. However, the one that happens right after the rejection is thanks to his best friend, Charlie, who had been in a very heavy argument with his wife and decided that each should sleep with all the people they missed out on sleeping with all the years they were married. One day Charlie and Hank met a girl while at the gym and they invited her for drinks that night. Although this was more of a quest for Charlie to get laid, Hank helped his buddy out even though he was still in a depressed mood. Eventually Charlie managed to get the girl to agree to sleep with him but with one condition, Hank had to join in and make it a “Devil’s three way.” After Charlie begged and begged, Hank finally agreed to be a part of it. In this sex scene it had many of the negative representations of what a “bad” sex scene is. All three characters had been drinking and where drunk while having sex. This was an experimentation that both Hank and Charlie where engaging on because neither one of them had been in a threesome with two males. Hank had gone back to his womanizing ways and agreed to the sex because of his sex addiction. Even at this point for Hank to agree to join in on the act without much hesitation, it showed how the rejection from Karen made him hit rock