Picking right up where it left off after an awesome episode last week, I loved the scene tonight where Hank, Karen, Felicia, and Stacy were all sitting in Chelsea’s and Becca’s principal’s office. When Felicia let it slip that she and Hank had had an “indiscretion,” and Karen heard about it for the first time? Then Hank trying to convince Karen that it was an accent misunderstanding? This show is great!
The one story that Becca had going for her this season was a potential affair with Chelsea. I really didn’t expect to find that they’d been physically fighting, even after their little screaming match last week. It could break one of two ways: Becca will lay the blame for her losing her best friend ever at Hank’s feet, which I think will destroy them for eternity, or … wait, is there another option for how it went down? Okay, so no, but old Becca would have let it go, so who knows.
Can you believe that Karen’s problem with the affair seems to be that Hank slept with Felicia, as opposed to that Hank slept with Felicia? How can she hate her that much? I’m willing to wager that Felicia is modeled to a “T” on Natascha McElhone, which would just be really funny.
Felicia, for her part, has taken the Hank opportunity to turn her entire life on its head. Kicking Stacy out (so why was he the one in the house with Chelsea?) sounds like it was a long time coming. But it’s got to be about more than Hank giving her clarity if she told him she was done with him … unless he wants her again. Hank really got under her skin.
Another relationship to meet its end was Marcy’s with Rick Springfield. To be honest, I didn’t realize that she was under the impression that there was any longevity to it until this week — and he certainly didn’t give that impression last week. The entire incident with Hank and Charlie breaking into the school drug dealer’s dorm room made for some great levity, though couldn’t Hank have played the professor card to get out of there?
Anyway, that was a sad display by Springfield in the trailer, vacuuming coke off the floor with his nose. And there’s your tailspin. Or at least let’s hope that’s the lowest point the character is going to hit on Californication. I have to ask, though, because I’m still wondering this: was the lobster and lobster bib intended to be part of the coke-fueled sex romp in that trailer? Because, if so, how … why … in what way…. Yeah.
Two funny points to end off with. One, that Hank worked at Blockbuster in 1991, and spliced porn into Disney films. We’ve all heard the tired line about doing it as a projectionist in a movie theater, but in a video rental store? That’s original. Also, Stacy propositioning Karen was majorly creepy, and yet rather amusing in a sick sort of way. She never would have done it, but can you imagine the meltdown Hank would have had if they’d slept together?
It’d be worse than when she was with Bill (Damian Young).
Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Nov 22, 2009 @ 22:30 EST5EDT
Chelsea said she was spending quality time with Stacy before he moved to heartbreak hotel, so i’m sure it was some sort of arrangement for them to have some father-daughter time.
it always amazed me how woman usually blame the other woman in these adultery situations; Chelsea and Karen both blame Felicia, for different reasons, even though both Stacy and Hank had committed infidelity too.
after the little Runkle breakdown, i’m happy that Charlie seemed to got Marcy back (loved his happy grin,) at least away from Rick Springfield, who is s quiet a trooper. i wonder why they didn’t hire him as the rock star last season.
the show has won me back after last week’s superb eppy, Stacy’s line “hell, i’m not even sure that little dean is up to it,” sounds like something Sandy Cohen would say.
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Yes, the women are usually the ones blamed, but in this case I think it’s everyone accepting that Hank’s slutty, so the only person with the power to stop it would have been Felicia.
Springfield had a good turn here, but Callum Keith Rennie was awesome as Lew Ashby last season, if that’s who you’re suggesting he should have replaced. I think Springfield did a good job parodying himself, but as for a three-dimensional character, I don’t know if he has the skills.