Reviews of "Lascivious California" will allow you to make a full impression of this American television series. He talks about the life of the writer Hank Moody, whose role was played by David Duchovny. The picture was released from 2007 to 2014. During this time, 7 seasons were filmed, a total of 84 episodes. On Russian television, the series was broadcast on various channels, including under the names Caliphrenia, California, Playboy from California.
The plot of the series
Reviews of "Lascivious California" are presented below in the article. The essence of the plot is built around the popular writer and ladies man Hank Moody, whom Duchovny plays. He once had a wife Karen (actress Natasha McElhone) and daughter Rebecca (actress Madeleine Martin).
But the family idyll was left behind after Moody’s new novel, God Hates All of Us, was decided to film in Los Angeles. The whole family goes to meet the classic "American dream", and for the protagonist, the City of Angels becomes a real hell.
First season
In the first season of the series, exactly one month is described in detail from the life of the protagonist. It all ends with Bill and Karen's planned wedding.
After the release of the film “This Crazy Little Things Called Love,” based on Hank’s novel, he plunges into self-criticism. He perceives the film as a popular, but very low-quality and second-rate product.
Once in a store he meets a charming girl, their conversation ends in sex. He soon learns that this is the 16-year-old daughter of his publisher, whose name is Mia. Experiencing a creative and personal crisis, the main character spends most of his time drinking and at parties, because of this, his work on the new book does not advance, he can not write a single page. Meanwhile, Mia is chasing Hank, threatening to tell her father about their romance.
The death of his father leads to the next binge of the protagonist, he finds salvation in a new relationship with Karen. When Hank returns from his father’s funeral, he finally hands over the manuscript of his new book to the publisher. He hands it to Karen, but Mia steals the original, makes a copy. She wants to pass off this novel as her own work.
In the finale of the first season, on the wedding day of Karen and Bill, Hank decides to put up with the current state of things, but at the last moment Karen jumps into his car, they go together into a new life.
main characters
David Duchovny in the series "Lascivious California" - the main star. He plays writer Hank Moody, who grew up in a small town in Michigan. He moved to the capital of Atlanta in 1985. His parents were Catholics, as a child, he went to a parish school and constantly attended church.
After school, he entered college, since then he began to ignore God and lead a dissolute life. As a result, he was expelled from college, but he discovered the talent of a writer in himself. Hank has written several books that quickly became real bestsellers. After the publication of his first successful novel, he met Karen in one of the New York clubs. A screen version of his latest book becomes an ordinary poppin Hollywood movie, but after a quarrel with his wife and disappointment in California, he begins a deep creative crisis.
The character Duchovny in "Lascivious California" crisis has dragged on for several years, all this time Hank has been popular with the weaker sex. He constantly fights, in any case, tells people everything that he thinks about them. With all this, Hank manages to remain a loving father for his daughter, and also notes that he never cheated on his wife while they were together.
Role in "Lascivious California" for David Duchovny became one of the main projects in the years when the series was released.
Karen van der Beek
The wife of the protagonist is played by the English actress Natasha Makelkhon. The series to which this article is dedicated has been released worldwide on various platforms, including LostFilm. The Lascivious California became her next striking work after the tragicomedy of Peter Weir's The Truman Show, the historical drama by Philip Lowrop “Another of the Boleyn Family,” the comedic thriller Jean-Baptiste Andrea “Full bummer”.
Her heroine once read Hank's book, the writer finally conquered her with her mind and attractiveness. Ten months after their first meeting, they had a daughter, Becca. They moved to Los Angeles, but for many years spent together, Hank did not make her an offer, they remained a civilian husband and wife.
As a result, she got a new hobby - the publisher of her husband Bill, who hired Karen to remodel his house. Hank himself was busy filming the movie from his book, so Karen left him and moved to Bill with her daughter.
Rebecca Moody
According to reviews about “Lascivious California”, American Madeline Martin, who played the daughter of the main characters Rebecca, or Becca, as her parents call her, was very impressed by the audience.
The actress previously appeared in several episodes in the series Law and Order, Queen of the Screen, and took part in the dubbing of the animated film Ice Age 2: Global Warming. In this series, she got one of the main roles.
Her heroine was born already in New York, and then moved to Los Angeles with her parents. She is a rather capricious schoolgirl who is experiencing an age crisis, for example, she categorically does not like it when someone touches her hair. More than anyone else, she feels a tense situation in the family, constantly trying to give useful advice to her parents so that they do not part. Throughout the series, she regularly meets naked women in her father’s bedroom, each time reacting to this quite adequately.
Charlie Rankle
Another important character in the series is Charlie Runkle. He is played by American actor Evan Handler. It should be familiar to viewers on the TV shows Miami Police: Moral Department, Law and Order, Sex and the City, The Client is Always Dead, Lost, Necessary Cruelty, American Crime History .
According to the plot of this series, he is an agent and manager, who either represents the interests of the popular porno-actress, then sells cars. With a novice writer Hank, he met back in 1987. After reading his book, he becomes an agent of Moody, one of his closest friends.
He has a wife, Marcy, with whom he quarrels too often, in the third season they divorce, and the next it turns out that she is pregnant from Charlie.
Reviews
For the entire time this series was released, he gained a lot of fans. Reviews about "Lascivious California" can be found mostly positive.
Fans note that the plot will be interesting for both romantic young ladies and avid Don Juan who are not averse to learn something from the main character. In the reviews of “Lascivious California”, the main thing that almost all viewers notice is that this is an excellent game of actors, an opportunity to forget everything, plunging headlong into their world.