Californication: Season 7, Episode 10 “Dinner with Friends” (C+)
With just two installments in this series’ lengthy run to go, this is a perfectly light revolving-door episode indicative of its current quality. Hank literally spends the entire half-hour answering the door for one colorful guest after another, presuming that none of these characters have anything to do on a random night than stop by Hank’s just to sit, drink, and ultimately be robbed by the latest in an alarming trend of prostitutes to enter the Runkle house. This silliness also negates so much of what has happened this season, as Rath chats up Karen, getting ready to get in the way of yet another complicated Hank romance that isn’t going to end well for him. Krull hits on just about everyone while charming no one. Julia, appealing as she is, doesn’t have much of a consistent personality, and Leavon is more of a caricature than anything else at this point. And then there’s Eddie Nero, who is just off-the-wall crazy, and Stu, who has also gone off the deep end with his obsession with Marcy. Ultimately, it’s all about how Karen doesn’t think she can ever be with Hank, though obviously he’ll never stop pursuing her. With so little time left, this show is treading water and opting for repeats of past plotlines that have worked better in previous seasons. I don’t know how this show can resolve itself in a satisfying manner without demanding some sort of change from its protagonists, and while I’m curious to see how it all ends, I don’t expect to be thrilled.
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