![]() This entire show is bad performance art.įor those of you that aren't writers and aren't hip to our jargon, that's when you have a character do something gross or unsavory for no damn reason other than to give the audience a nice little jolt. Poor Hank Moody is no longer the tortured artist I rooted for he’s just bad performance art. You push them past personal thresholds with the thinnest of motivations. You’ve got these wonderful characters that either repeat the mistakes they’ve made in previous seasons or you have them do things for shock value and that alone. It’s like you guys have a full tank of gas but have no clue where the hell you’re going. You jumped the shark, then you jumped a few more sharks. Hank Moody, for better or worse, was a character that I couldn’t stop paying attention to…then it started to change. It appeared you guys finally cracked the code of the “rock star author” archetype that so many get wrong, an almost tragic figure that one admires-but at the same time-pities for his personal shortcomings. There was a story, the dialogue was sharp, and Duchovny’s portrayal of tortured novelist, Hank Moody, was a slow motion trainwreck I couldn’t help but watch. I used to be invested in the characters and care about their relationships. What the hell happened? Are you guys okay? Dear Tom Kapinos and everyone else responsible for Californication,
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