In season seven, Hank wants to persuade Karen to get a new job in order to change course. During that period, Charlie faces problems living the trajectory of events, and Hank must change the course of things for Karen, while talking about the son helps him further his acting career during that period while getting a job as an assistant.
Having generally worn out its welcome several seasons earlier, Californication ended its seventh season run Sunday with the kind of whimper Hank Moody himself would disdain.
Alas, the swan-song episodes is emblematic of what's been fun about the show but also the balancing weight of what's wrong with it, including a slightly cloying aspect to the central relationship that makes it hard to care about its outcome.
What makes the complacent ending sting is knowing that "Californication" was at one point a complex program with dark, human undertones and aninventive presentation.
