Life, that is. And a lot of people who live it. After finishing the entire first season of David Duchovny’s Californication, I felt that I needed to watch something cute and chaste that I’m only too happy to find a DVD of Disney’s The Little Mermaid among my things. But I changed my mind while I’m placing the disc on the DVD player and decided to sit in front of the computer instead to write this (I would have written the “s” word that also means something gross at the end of that sentence but that would just be a hangover from the episodes filled with the “s” s and the “f”s and I’ll probably regret it later). So it’s about a troubled writer who hasn’t been writing for a while, picking up girls from every corner while trying to win back his one great love and be a good father to their teenaged daughter, failing in every step of the way. Consider this: He didn’t marry the woman he loves but when she got engaged to another man, he abruptly offered to fly with her to Vegas, look for some Elvis look-alike to marry them inside a Casino or somewhere. He is careless with his life and deals like it’s no more than a game of blackjack, all the while declaring that “I’m a writer; that’s what I do.” As anyone who’s done a lot of mistakes, he knows that he needs to get things right because time is not on his side and the slots of opportunities leading to his redemption is running out. Admittedly, it’s not a show for everyone. There are lots of controversial scenes involving sexual situations and foul language that if Hank Moody will have to pay up for each of them (as he does whenever he curse in front of his daughter), the show will never make profit. Get over the squeamishness and you might find that this one’s a spunky, smart, and entertaining tale of how damaged some people can be and yet still be a good person when it matters.
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