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What the TV Show ‘Californication’ Can Teach Us About Life
You can’t always get what you want — but it turns out you might already have it.
On the surface, it seems like the hit show Californication is just about a guy who can’t keep it in his pants. While that’s true, it’s not the entire message of the series.
[If you haven’t seen this show, and want to, be warned there may be spoilers in here.]
Do you remember that television series that ended roughly a decade ago — the one where David Duchovny plays a drunken writer with a dirty mind, kind of like a more handsome Charles Bukowski?
Well, if you haven’t, here’s a tl;dw recap for you: Duchovny plays Hank Moody, a successful but troubled writer, struggling to write his next big novel. He loves his ex-partner (and mother to his daughter) but can’t seem to pull his life together for her benefit — or his own.
While Moody keeps promising his family he’ll be there for them, he more often finds himself between the legs of one of his groupies. (One time he even slept with an underaged girl who then stole his manuscript, but I guess that’s a risk you take as a man-whore who fucks anything that moves.)
Anyhow, it’s clear from the storyline that his teen daughter Becca (played by…
