Well this show sets a new bar for raunch and is clearly not for everyone, but what saves it, and keeps me coming back is the writing. Some of the words make me cringe but the darn writing is so clever I find myself laughing out loud nearly every episode.
I had to remind myself that the plot lines are not really based in reality. The feelings the characters express are dead real, but the situations they get into are not all that credible. If you accept the show as a sort of semi-fantasy it will temper your expectations and allow you to enjoy the comedy, the superb acting, and the fairy tale yet highly believable love story that the two lead actors David Duchovny and Natascha McElhone create. It is a joy to witness two people so in love. Their character's love for each have a kind of Romeo and Juliet lilt (or some may say Barbie and Ken).
And what about this David Duchovny person? How dare you look that good in your 40's. How dare you slip into the character of Hank Moody as naturally as a snake sheds its skin. Well I guess I could be envious, jealous, or even bitter, but instead I'll just pray I am you (David or Hank) in the next lifetime. .... And by the way, is Duchovny channeling Garry Shandling? His mannerism are often reminiscent of the great comedian and the jokes that come out of his mouth are very Shandling-esk. Which is great. I dearly miss Garry.
EdiT: I would like to add something please... Now that I'm conditioned to the pleasure of the wave of humor that machine guns you non-stop, I am [thankfully] seeing deeper into the series. When you look past the comedy, the hanko-one-liners, the pelting of raunch (also non-stop) you start to realize what an amazing thing Duchovny and Natascha pulled off... in episode after episode. Their dynamic. Their soulmatedness. They did something incredibly rare! They played an actual, believable dysfunctional couple. Now the key word there is believe-able. I believed, again, non-stop, that these two people really were helplessly, haplessly, hopelessly IN LOVE.
ITS THE ONLY POSSIBLE REASON THEY STAYED TOGETHER for that many seasons. Sure the producers wanted as many seasons as possible to milk out the revenue. And yes, they could have fallen back on this incredible on-screen couple just being ADDICTED to each other... staying together as a sort of better-the-devil-you-know kind of thing. But the show rose above that! I am in season 3, and I'm going to continue watching -completely out of character for me- because it is so much fun to witness the love these two fictitious people have for each other (hint: it's ALL fiction at the end of the day).
Stupendous acting. I hope THE ENTIRE CAST, especially the daughter, whose name I am too laze to lookup at them moment, due to having a few glasses of Merlot with the spaghetti dinner. That actress rocks. The whole cast really cast a magical spell. Thanx for this show. I don't love it because of the raunch. Bit in spite of. !!
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