When started to watching this show got very excited and surprised that how funny, smart, well written and deep this show really is. Chemistry and dialogue between the characters is good and get better episode by episode as We are getting attached to the story and the characters, even the secondary characters like Mia that I loved very much. Me myself very enjoyed the humors in the show, that dark witty and sometimes very laughable humors. They Matched the balance in this area to don't ruin shows drama.Plot, directing and writing is noticeable and most importantly the actors doing such a great job especially David which in my opinion deserved more nominations and awards for this role.The first three seasons of the series was absolute best and sets the bar high, especially season 3 which in my opinion was the best season of the whole show. But after the end of the season 3, series got into very slight and slow downhill to the end. Writers put an afford to don't let the series getting repetitive and not interesting anymore but they only made it untill some point. But when you love the story and more importantly characters, you can past this little deficiency and enjoy the series.At the end If I wanna come to a Conclusion must say that the show almost succeed at what was it trying to say and general meaning of his core but if they got more time to wrapping things up at the end that meaning and ending would have been so much better and we were easily looked at one of the masterpiece series on television.Personally I rathered that show had a dark and bitter ending preety much like theme of the primary seasons not the end season but almost satisfied with the open ending.This was an interesting journey and I'm gonna miss hank and his lunatic friends and companions ...

I already watched Californication like 3-4 times and I will do it so. If you haven't seen it yet, start it right now! You will laugh a lot, you will feel emotions and you'll be addicted for sure. Great actors, awesome storyline, nice pictures. Must watch!

I binged watched all 7 season when I had a week with very little to do. I got to know a couple of characters that seemed to have something to say, and then I lost them. I don't know where they went. By the end of the show, all of the characters were caricatures and cartoons.The show initially developed some very real characters that we could simultaneously root for and be angry with, only to devolve, by the 7th season, into unfunny farce and sexual slapstick. I am not the first person to notice the vast difference in quality from the early seasons to the later seasons.First, the milieu: Yes, there are brilliant, self absorbed writers leaving a path of destruction tempered with moments of clarity. I have known some of them. Devolving from serious novelist to alcoholic Hollywood hack is not an unrealistic arc.However, the whole "debauched rocker living in a baronial mansion but still making vital music that attracts young people" is a lost world. The 80s are over. When I visit my aging rock star friends, there is a possibility of a slight wine buzz, but conversation is more likely to center around children and schools. The dinner parties are virtually indistinguishable from any other middle aged gathering. Kids don't go to rock shows. The Stu subplot went on way to long. The "pretend to be gay" and "unknown son from the past" plot-lines were unfunny and lazy writing. They were tropes, as opposed to plot lines. Like many people, as Karen was merely reduced to looks of exasperation, the last few season, death or Faith seemed like much more realistic fates for Hank. But, in a world where the dweebiest guy attracts desirable young women, mating occurs within 5 minutes of meeting, and no action has any long-term consequences, then we just chuckle at the occasional gag, and stop caring about the characters.

It was good, but...there are only so many drugs you can take, loves you can make, hearts you can break, and laughs you can fake until it just doesn't matter anymore. That's exactly what happened to this series. I've also spent quite a bit of screen time with Duchovny and I can definitely tell when he's over it. Same thing happened during the end of The X-Files' 7th season. Californication couldn't have started better and it really was fresh up to the end of season 5. To avoid spoilers, I will just say that this series had something special that was lost when additional seasons were forced...