{"id":5530,"date":"2009-09-30T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T03:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2015-05-06T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:59:18","slug":"californication-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2009\/09\/californication-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Californication&#8221; &#8211; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Californication&#8221; premiered on Showtime and you can find a review on the LA Times Blog &#8220;Show Tracker&#8221;. The third season premiered on September 27, 2009 together with the new episodes of \u201cDexter\u201d in which Julie Benz stars.<\/p>\n<p>As already reported, Diane Farr has a 10 episodes guest-gig on the show. She plays Jill Robinson, Hank\u2019s T.A. at the university where he\u2019s teaching.<\/p>\n<blockquote>[&#8230;]\n<p>As for what I enjoyed about Sunday\u2019s episode, Becca going off the sensible path and stealing Dad\u2019s weed from inside his typewriter was an amusing character shade that I hope to see more of, and a couple of newly introduced characters show immediate potential: Peter Gallagher as the hilariously named Dean Koons (if you don\u2019t get it, go to the bookstore), because, well, he\u2019s Peter Gallagher and I see him and Duchovny as having a lot of potential playing off each other; and Diane Farr as Jill Robinson, a university teaching assistant who\u2019s both brutally honest about her imperfect personal life and (at least for now) immune to Hank\u2019s advances. \u201cDon\u2019t charm me,\u201d she tells him at one point during the dinner party, and when she denies him again at the end of the night, it\u2019s a breath of fresh air to see that Hank is actually not going to get laid. Even still, the chemistry between the two characters dripped off the screen, and whenever Farr was on screen, the scene popped. <\/p>\n[&#8230;]<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the blog entry here: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/showtracker\/2009\/09\/californication-booze-boobs-and-a-snooze.html\" target=\"_blank2>&#8216;Californication&#8217;: Booze, boobs and a snooze<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related News:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"2009\/06\/life-unexpected-with-three-familiar-faces\/\">\u201cLife UneXpected\u201d with three familiar faces<\/a>, Jun 24th, 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"2009\/04\/diane-farr-10-episode-guest-gig-on-californication\/\">Diane Farr 10-episode-guest-gig on \u201cCalifornication\u201d<\/a>, Apr 2nd, 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"2009\/01\/diane-farrs-twin-girls-in-celebrity-baby-names-of-2008-listing\/\">Diane Farr\u2019s twin girls in \u201cCelebrity Baby names of 2008\u2033 listing<\/a>, Jan 3rd, 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"2008\/08\/two-baby-girls-for-diane-farr\/\">Two baby girls for Diane Farr<\/a>, Aug 28th, 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"2008\/04\/celebrity-mom-qa-with-diane-farr-diane-writes-a-book\/\">Celebrity Mom &#8211; Q&#038;A with Diane Farr &#8211; Diane writes a book!<\/a>, Apr 27th, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Californication&#8221; premiered on Showtime and you can find a review on the LA Times Blog &#8220;Show Tracker&#8221;. The third season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2391,4],"tags":[1677,151],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diane-farr","category-supporting","tag-californication","tag-diane-farr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5809,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}