Californication – Now who will play Mia?

The fate of the movie based on the novel by Hank Moody, that was once the memoir stolen from Hank by Mia Lewis, that was originally the novel written by Hank Moody, is in trouble. Starlit Sasha Bingham (Addison Timlin) is ready to quit the project (although not Hank just yet), and the movie’s fate is now murky with uncertainty. Or is it?

For just as things look their darkest, in rides Eddie Nero (Rob Lowe) on his white horse all set to take up the mantle of the script that he can’t get out of his head and run with it. I’m not sure what that does to solve the problem of Sasha, but so be it.

Nero wants to spend a night in the life of Hank Moody, going actor Method by observing Hank as he lives his life … both in and out of bed. Eddie’s description of how he got into the character of a gay man with HIV was wildly descriptive, and did you see him kissing Charlie? I read recently in Entertainment Weekly that Lowe jokingly says that his cool credentials are going right out the window with his role as Chris Traeger on Parks and Recreation; I wonder what he thinks his role on Californication is doing for him. I think Lowe is awesome in this role, I’m just curious how it makes him look following the not-yet forgotten multiple scandals that he’s endured.

When Karen went to plead Hank’s case with Abby — it was clear that Abby was reading personal stuff into that conversation in addition to professional consideration — I found myself, for the first time, understanding what Hank saw in Karen. Yes, you read that correctly. Because remember that we generally caught them after Hank had screwed up again, so much of the Karen we saw was judgmental, spiteful, and mistrusting (all with good reason). The same way that Karen was describing the Hank that only she knew, so too were we seeing the Karen that only Hank saw during the times that things were good with them. Karen often rubs me the wrong way, but there was something nice about her visit with Abby.

Stu (Stephen Tobolowsky) is totally creepy, although I don’t really care about what Marcy chooses to do. However, I wonder how a potential relationship with Stu (or anyone else) will affect the baby that Marcy’s carrying. Did anyone else notice that she seemed to be knocking back the liquor? Did she forget that someone, somewhere, knocked her up?

Becca was annoyingly whiny as always, but the scene in the tattoo parlor was fun. Nero was totally insane pulling his gun out — did he expect that those guys wouldn’t be carrying? — but I loved how his fame overcame the odds. And how about Becca practically losing it when she learned that not only would Eddie Nero be playing Hank in a movie, but that someone would be portraying her? I guess she isn’t quite as traumatized by this incident as she thought she was.

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Feb 14, 2011 @ 15:00 EST5EDT