The last time Pamela Adlon took part in a perfect season of television, it was 2007. The same year “Mad Men” debuted and a year before anyone had heard of “Breaking Bad,” Adlon co-starred in the Showtime comedy “Californication” alongside David Duchovny. While subsequent seasons dipped further and further beneath the high bar set in Season 1, the first 12 episodes of Tom Kapinos’ exploration of Southern California culture through the lens of an unwilling New Yorker are pretty damn untouchable.
They were also pretty thoroughly masculine. Once summed up (by my sister) as the most beautifully written soft core porn on TV, “Californication” didn’t exactly shirk its female characters — including Adlon’s Marcy Runkle, a waxer of the stars — but its perspective was definitively and exclusively Hank’s (Duchovny): a good-hearted, sweet-talking troublemaker as eager to defend a damsel in distress as she was to bed him in thanks. And there were many,...
They were also pretty thoroughly masculine. Once summed up (by my sister) as the most beautifully written soft core porn on TV, “Californication” didn’t exactly shirk its female characters — including Adlon’s Marcy Runkle, a waxer of the stars — but its perspective was definitively and exclusively Hank’s (Duchovny): a good-hearted, sweet-talking troublemaker as eager to defend a damsel in distress as she was to bed him in thanks. And there were many,...
- 11/11/2016
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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