I loved Hank’s character in ‘Californication’. His quotes, his dialogues and above all his instant affairs are the fun factor of the show. Despite numerous problems in his personal and professional life, he still manages to have fun. His witty dialogues stir flavor of humor in even excessively tense situations. I laughed a lot while watching the episode ‘LOL’ which is entirely based upon the improper use of words in English. In this episode, Hank awakes after a dream as usual, and Meredith teases saying LOL, then Hank states that he doesn’t have any problem with the word, but every time a person uses it, they are contributing to the death of English language.

In the mid of this episode, he is invited for a radio interview with Henry Rollins, where he harangues about improper use of language on internet. Later Meredith gets angry and breaks up with Hank saying that those radio bombasts were about her morning’s phrase. But after a few moments she comes back and tells Hank that due to his dialogue with her married boy friend, he has left his wife and they end up with another hot shot. For this incident I have a phrase, “Much ado about nothing”.

In my opinion, Hank’s character became adorable from the second episode when he starts blogging for a magazine named Hell-A Magazine. You know which his first blog was? It’s ‘Hank Hates You All’, it resembles title of his book ‘God Hates Us All’ which is actually a song from the Slayer album.

He started writing blogs for the magazine due to frustration that his novel has been adapted into to a romantic comedy movie ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ by director Todd Carr. He expresses his anger through his blogs. This sparks his fight with the director in a book signing ceremony and he ends up into jail.

In the season finale episode too when he finds his daughter kissing a guy he reacts to the boy saying, “Check yo self before you wrickity-wreck yo self.” I liked his actions in the end as well, when Karen comes screaming and jumps into his car asking him to drive away before she changes her mind. He escapes swiftly escaping the chasing Bill, the bride groom of Karen.

Now I am eager to watch, what happens next in his life as he is reunited with Karen.

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