Certainly the Cricket could be criticized for being cynical, but I find the main story arc of Californication a tad too melodramatic. Yes, I understand that Karen isn’t too happy that the man who claims to love her slept with an under-aged girl who happened to be the daughter of her fiancé at the time. But she knows Hank, he cannot refuse temptation, yet he did not rape Mia. By all accounts she seduced him. I did enjoy the in-joke, though, when Hank is getting ready for court, looking in the mirror combing his hair saying, “I look like a fucking FBI Agent.” (Get it?) In court, the prosecution first asks Charlie Runkle as witness. Not good. The man is so nervous, all he does is talk about Hank’s sexcapades. Hank finds the stories funny, but meanwhile the jury is painted a picture of a promiscuous, immoral asshole bent on self-destruction. The prosecution also wishes to insinuate that Hank slept with Mia to take revenge on Karen’s fiancé Bill Lewis. When Karen is asked to testify, Abby nicely sums up her relationship with Hank: she broke up with him, to move in with Bill, then she abandoned Bill at the altar to move back in with Hank; she threw him out when she thought he got another woman pregnant, left for New York without her daughter, came back to play house some more; then broke off with Hank yet again when he was accused of statutory rape. Ouch.
When it’s time for recess, there’s no cause for celebration yet, but there’s no reason to worry either. Then the prosecution calls William Lewis, who testifies that Hank had in fact met Mia the day before he slept with her. Bad news for the defendant. He is certain Hank seduced her to spite him. But when Mia comes to the stand she assures the jury that Hank had no recollection of their first meeting: he was drunk and sick, moved in and out of sleep. She also confesses that she was deliberately looking for trouble, resenting the fact that her father had jumped into a new relationship so soon after her mother’s death, plus the fact that he was hardly ever home. She appreciated Karen’s attempts to be there for her, but she wouldn’t listen. She met Hank at the book store and seduced him. Abby is livid: the seed of doubt has been planted among the jury. Karen is beyond anger and doesn’t even want to speak to Hank. The Fuck Up himself doesn’t know what just hit him. Perhaps it’s a testament to the series that we still sympathize with him, or maybe I just don’t see what the big deal is all about. It’s not like Hank did it on purpose. We will have to wait at least another week until we hear the jury’s verdict.
When it’s time for recess, there’s no cause for celebration yet, but there’s no reason to worry either. Then the prosecution calls William Lewis, who testifies that Hank had in fact met Mia the day before he slept with her. Bad news for the defendant. He is certain Hank seduced her to spite him. But when Mia comes to the stand she assures the jury that Hank had no recollection of their first meeting: he was drunk and sick, moved in and out of sleep. She also confesses that she was deliberately looking for trouble, resenting the fact that her father had jumped into a new relationship so soon after her mother’s death, plus the fact that he was hardly ever home. She appreciated Karen’s attempts to be there for her, but she wouldn’t listen. She met Hank at the book store and seduced him. Abby is livid: the seed of doubt has been planted among the jury. Karen is beyond anger and doesn’t even want to speak to Hank. The Fuck Up himself doesn’t know what just hit him. Perhaps it’s a testament to the series that we still sympathize with him, or maybe I just don’t see what the big deal is all about. It’s not like Hank did it on purpose. We will have to wait at least another week until we hear the jury’s verdict.
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