Charlie’s Grumblings
Two characters from ‘Californication’ are my topmost favorites. One is Hank, the playboy of the show and the other one is his agent Charlie Runkle. If Hank is a sex addict then Charlie is one step ahead of him. Because throughout the season, he is busy in living up his innovative fantasies with his secretary. Their chemistry is really speculative.
They are first introduced in the third episode, “The Whore of Babylon”. Here Charlie is enjoying erotic photographs of his blonde secretary Dani on a site, after just firing her. The next morning she comes to him to apologize and get her job back. She allows him that he can punish her whenever she does something wrong and after a few moments of her kindness; she gets a slap from Charlie on her face.
In an episode, he makes her crawl on floor in lingerie while moving towards him and is clicking her photos in his cabin when Hank arrives over there. Then he suggests Charlie to reconcile with his wife instead of dying for such chicks. In the further episodes he tries the same but in his own distinct ways. He forces his wife Marcy to follow up his fantasies. Marcy calls Dani as Charlie’s slave and is also jealous of Dani because she knows about her relationship with Charlie. In an episode, it is also shown that Marcy and Dani have become lesbian couple and the whole credit goes to Charlie’s fantasies.
Charlie always makes me laugh with his ever existing grumblings about physical dissatisfaction and his concentration remains upon his sexuality only. While trying to save his marriage with Marcy, he makes all the possible experiments with her. He tells Marcy to act like his BDSM Slave for fun but the idea doesn’t work well. So he makes her indulge into threesome including Dani. But in the finale episode, they end up reuniting at the wedding of Karen, as Hank I shown watching them making love in the back yard.
Charlie is also fond of new sex partners like Hank, but is a bit unlucky. In, ‘Devil’s Threesome’, both meet a girl in a boxing gym and this girl knows Hank from some past encounter. Therefore, Hank and Charlie take her to Hank’s place where they try threesome, and unfortunately, while they are in action, Marcy and Karen, who were enjoying girls’ night out, come over there to surprise both of the men. But these ladies’ surprise visit gifts themselves a big surprise. And poor Charlie again became the target of Marcy’s anger.
For me in this show there are two sex addicts, but only one of them is stupid and that’s Charlie. What an entertaining character!
