Pilot (Californication)

"Pilot" is the pilot episode of the Showtime series Californication, which originally aired in North America on August 13, 2007, though it was released to Netflix subscribers on July 24, 2007.^[1]

Plot

Hank Moody (David Duchovny) is a man in his 40s struggling with a mid-life crisis. He is still in love with his ex-girlfriend, Karen, who is about to be married to her fiancé, Bill Lewis, and with whom Hank shares custody of their 12-year-old daughter, Becca. The show begins with Hank in a church receiving oral sex from a nun, but it is soon revealed that it is a dream that epitomizes Hank's lifestyle; he was receiving a blow job from a one-night stand. After writing a book entitled God Hates Us All and receiving great accolades and critical acclaim, Hank finds himself struggling to write a new book. He is angry that his book has been turned into a movie titled Crazy Little Thing Called Love starring Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Hank has sex with a young woman he meets at a bookstore; during sex she repeatedly punches him, giving him a black eye. She turns out to be Mia Lewis, the 16-year-old daughter of Bill Lewis. Hank and Karen have to team up to retrieve their daughter Becca from a wild party.

Cultural references

• When Hank is sleeping on the sofa and is awakened by his ex-girlfriend, part of a radio broadcast from one of the Fensler Films GI Joe Public Service Announcements is audible in the background.

Music

• Peeping Tom - "Mojo"
• Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
• My Morning Jacket - "Rocket Man"

References

External links

"Pilot" at the Internet Movie Database