FREE: Californication Season 2 DVD

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2 discs in great shape- 12 episodes
I was a big fan of the first season of Showtime's raunchy yet surprisingly heartfelt series about the mishaps of gifted but wounded author Hank Moody, but I was surprised at how much better the second season turned out to be. The action picks up where things ended with the season one finale. Karen had left her groom-to-be at the altar and jumped in Hank's car instructing him to keep going before she changed her mind. And so, the second season opens with Hank, Karen and their teenage daughter, Becca, together again and Hank devoted to making things work this time around.

But this is Hank we're talking about, and it doesn't take him long to mess up (albeit accidentally) and the same familiar cycle begins again. When Karen turns down his marriage proposal, Hank leaves and takes up residence with music producer/man child, Lew Ashby whose biography he is writing. Ashby shares many traits with Hank, including being haunted by "the one that got away", a woman that Lew sacraficed in exchange for his fast paced lifestyle. He and Hank form a bond out of their shared loneliness and self-destructive behaviors that gives season 2 even more of a bruised heart feel than the first.

Despite the empty place in Hank's heart, and his efforts to change his patterns of behavior, this season is no mere naval giving mope fest. Several other plots percolate around our anti-hero. Becca begins dating, Charlie is fired from his job and becomes involved with an aspiring porn star, his wife succumbs to her cocaine addiction again and Hank tracks down the love of Lew's life all while facing the possibility that he may be a father; and no, Karen is not the mother. All of these plot threads weave together for a hilarious and moving examination of broken hearts and unrealized dreams.